You’ve seen an advertising board like the one Sobol shows on your apartment building entrance, right?
But I bet you have no idea how much money it brings in or who pockets it.
That’s exactly what Lyubov Sobol explains in her latest excellent investigation:
- But that’s shared building property! you’ll exclaim, waving the Housing Code. The money should go to the building’s residents.
Just not in Sobyanin’s Moscow.
There are 95,000 of these advertising boards installed. They bring in 3 billion rubles a year (about US$33 million) in easy money.
Who takes that money, how the whole scheme works, and which political party is involved—see here:
All the documents and evidence are here.