{"id":44877,"date":"2021-01-19T13:35:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T12:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/?p=44877"},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T08:07:02","slug":"ru-2021-01-19-navalnys-anti-corruption-foundation-investigates-putins-billion-dollar-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/it\/ru-2021-01-19-navalnys-anti-corruption-foundation-investigates-putins-billion-dollar-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"RU 2021.01.19 Navalny\u2019s Anti-Corruption Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Church-The-Face-of-Fascism-and-the-Russian-Church-v0.webp\" alt=\"The Monastery, The Face of Fascism and the Russian Church\" class=\"wp-image-56134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Church-The-Face-of-Fascism-and-the-Russian-Church-v0.webp 800w, https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Church-The-Face-of-Fascism-and-the-Russian-Church-v0-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Church-The-Face-of-Fascism-and-the-Russian-Church-v0-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Church-The-Face-of-Fascism-and-the-Russian-Church-v0-18x10.webp 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Investigates Putin, the Russian President<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Billion-dollar Residence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Financed by companies connected to Putin<\/strong>,<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>Navalny\u2019s Anti-Corruption Foundation investigates the Russian president\u2019s billion-dollar residence on the Black Sea<\/strong><\/em>.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ipAnwilMncI?si=O7jIDfGlJ-gjEPCD\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alexey Navalny\u2019s Anti-Corruption Foundation has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/meduza.io\/en\/news\/2021\/01\/19\/navalny-s-team-releases-investigation-into-putin-s-100-billion-ruble-palace-in-gelendzhik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released<\/a>&nbsp;a bombshell investigation into a $1.35-billion residence built for Russian President Vladimir Putin near a resort town on the Black Sea. Navalny\u2019s team published the report the day after the opposition figure was put in pre-trial detention at Moscow\u2019s notorious Matrosskaya Tishina prison.&nbsp;In addition to sharing the building\u2019s floor plan and visualizations of the interiors, the anti-corruption activists recount the history of the construction project and dig into how it was financed by companies connected to members of Putin\u2019s inner circle. \u201cMeduza\u201d sums up the highlights from the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Not far from the Black Sea resort town of Gelendzhik, there is a 17,700-square-meter (more than 190,500-square-foot) palace built exclusively for Russian President Vladimir Putin, says a new investigation from Alexey Navalny\u2019s non-profit, the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A word about the palace first got out in 2010 \u2014 it was revealed by businessman Sergey Kolesnikov, who claimed to have been involved in the building project. Kolesnikov published plans, contracts, and other documents linked to the construction and said that the project was being overseen by businessman&nbsp;Nikolai Shamalov&nbsp;on behalf of Vladimir Putin. This provoked a major media scandal, and a few months later, Shamalov sold the property to billionaire businessman Alexander Ponomarenko, who&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kommersant.ru\/doc\/1594626\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>&nbsp;he planned to finish building the palace as a hotel complex\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/meduza.io\/en\/feature\/2021\/01\/19\/putin-s-palace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/meduza.io\/en\/feature\/2021\/01\/19\/putin-s-palace<\/a>&nbsp; (long version)<br>Link:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/palace.navalny.com\/?fbclid=IwAR2z1ldq_4V4hjkqUkogdRGB1hkgvgITNXCLGXSgyujUqeG0wIiSzrnwJss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/palace.navalny.com\/?fbclid=IwAR2z1ldq_4V4hjkqUkogdRGB1hkgvgITNXCLGXSgyujUqeG0wIiSzrnwJss<\/a>&nbsp; (long text version in Russian)<br>Link:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/navalny-putin-palace\/31052807.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/navalny-putin-palace\/31052807.html<\/a>&nbsp; (short version)<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigates Putin, the Russian President A Billion-dollar Residence Financed by companies connected to Putin, Navalny\u2019s Anti-Corruption Foundation investigates the Russian president\u2019s billion-dollar residence on the Black Sea. Alexey Navalny\u2019s Anti-Corruption Foundation has&nbsp;released&nbsp;a bombshell investigation into a $1.35-billion residence built for Russian President Vladimir Putin near a resort town on the Black Sea. Navalny\u2019s team published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}