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The network includes former associates (e.g. Vladimir Kolbin, son of a childhood friend of Putin) or relatives of Putin (e.g. Mikhail Shelomov of JSC Accept), but also state-owned companies such as Transneft through shady "leasing" services. Huge sums are funneled into the compound in what Navalny calls the "biggest bribe" and Putin's "slush fund".
"Putin's Palace" [3] (Russian: "Дворец Путина", romanized: "Dvorets Putina") is an Italianate palace complex located on the Black Sea coast near Gelendzhik, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The complex first came to public attention in 2010 after whistleblower Sergei Kolesnikov published an open letter to Russian president Dmitry Medvedev ...
Vladimir Putin and his then-spouse Lyudmila with US President George W. Bush and his spouse Laura at Novo-Ogaryovo on 24 May 2002 Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin at Novo-Ogaryovo on 7 July 2009 Novo-Ogaryovo ( Russian : Ново-Огарёво ), also transliterated as Novo-Ogarevo , is an estate in the Odintsovsky District of Moscow Oblast ...
The Ararat Park Hotel Moscow is a five-star hotel in central Moscow, built in 2002 as the Ararat Park Hyatt Moscow [4] by Murad Sargsyan, a Russian-Armenian businessman. Today, it belongs to his brother Samvel Sargsyan, who was the governor of Armenia's Vayots Dzor province from 2003 to 2007 [3] and a member of the National Assembly of Armenia from 2007 to 2012 from the Republican Party of ...
The Hotel Intourist (Russian: гости́ница «Интурист») was a hotel in Moscow, Russia. It was built in 1970 as a hotel exclusively for foreign tourists to the Soviet Union. In 2002, the hotel was closed and demolished. The Carlton Moscow now stands on the site.
The Four Seasons Hotel Moscow is a modern luxury hotel in Manezhnaya Square in the Tverskoy District, central Moscow, Russia. It opened on October 30, 2014, with a facade that replicates the Soviet Hotel Moskva of the 1930s ( Russian : Гости́ница «Москва́» ), which previously stood on the same location.
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In the aftermath of these attacks, which claimed 300 lives, a new war was launched against Chechnya. Putin, the newly appointed prime minister who was put in charge of that war, achieved overnight popularity. Yeltsin resigned early. Putin was elected president and his first act was to guarantee Yeltsin immunity from prosecution. [196]