In December 2010, a St. Petersburg businessman named Sergey Kolesnikov penned a nifty four-page open letter to then-President Dmitry Medvedev, outlining how a glorious palace built for Vladimir Putin came to be. The details of this seemingly ancient document are now familiar again thanks to a massive investigative report released this week by the opposition figure Alexey Navalny, who survived an attempted assassination last year only to be jailed last weekend after returning home to Moscow.
Meduza: Putin’s people – Money in the bank and a palace by the sea
Russian President Vladimir Putin walks to take a dip into the icy waters during the celebration of the Epiphany holiday in Moscow region on Jan. 19, 2021.
