An explosive exposé alleging Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was deeply corrupt blew up on the Russian internet last week. Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation published a report and a movie (with English subtitles) that link Medvedev to an impressive number of residences, yachts and even two vineyards, both in Russia and abroad. The report has garnered so much attention—the video has had 6.5 million views on YouTube at time of writing—that even the New York Times took notice. What’s missing in most stories covering Navalny’s report is what it actually means: Medvedev is under attack. And yes, in Putin’s Russia, where journalists are murdered for doing their jobs, politicians are shot dead right in front of the Kremlin, and even a serving Minister is arrested, an eye-popping exposé on the Prime Minister’s extravagant wealth is necessarily an attack on him.
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Karina Orlova: The hit is in against Dmitry Medvedev
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (L) fixes his tie during a press conference following a meeting with the Palestinian president in the West Bank city of Jericho, on Nov. 11.
