Hi.
Today I have a new investigation for you. I must have rewritten the script for this video 300 times. Because it is practically impossible to describe in words—decent words—what we uncovered. It is a disgrace. Shameful, rock bottom. And corruption too, of course.
It all started with the Instagram account of a strange Belarusian girl who declared a “sex hunt” on me, and it will end in an international scandal. The boundless idiocy of the people who sent some bizarre girls in latex underwear to our headquarters last year helped us catch, red-handed, a top Russian official vacationing on an oligarch’s yacht with prostitutes.
Not another word. Watch the video. Starring Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko, oligarch Oleg Deripaska, and escort-agency girl Nastya Rybka.
Usually, if people do not feel like watching, I encourage them to read the written version of the investigation below. But today I strongly recommend that everyone both watch and read. For ethical reasons, the video version leaves out a huge number of images and details. And as the saying goes, paper will tolerate anything, so get comfortable and prepare to read our most scandalous investigation yet.
These are clips from a report by Gabrelyanov’s trash outlet LifeNews. It takes place at our old Moscow headquarters on Prospekt Mira.
You can watch the full video yourself and see how a group of wildly unhinged girls literally storms our office. They are dressed in wildly inappropriate outfits: latex police costumes, batons, whips, handcuffs, the whole thing. The visitors aggressively harassed and grabbed everyone in sight and, generally speaking, behaved terribly. They were politely shown out of the headquarters fairly quickly. The video then NATURALLY appeared on the LifeNews website, whose reporters just happened to be passing by with professional equipment.
Our headquarters have seen this kind of outrage many times—various pro-Putin squads, “Krasnodar grandmothers” (elderly pro-Kremlin activists from southern Russia), people yelling and smashing everything in sight. But no one had ever shown up in latex panties before, so we got curious: who exactly sent these girls? Who were they—some kind of Cossack girls? The granddaughters of the Krasnodar grandmothers? A special unit from the presidential administration? Honestly, we really wanted to know who came up with something this low.
We dug around on social media and realized that something was seriously off with these girls. And it was not just about their raid on our headquarters. Here they are, for example, completely naked in freezing weather, picketing the U.S. embassy in support of Harvey Weinstein.
Each of them, supposedly representing her own CIS republic (the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States), declares her desire to sleep with Harvey Weinstein.
Or here is the best one yet. If you are at work, please watch it without sound. You will thank me later.
The girl declares a sex hunt on me. She calls herself and the women who came to our headquarters “huntresses,” and says I am their new prey. Do you know why? Because, according to her, and I quote, “people keep fighting because of me.”
The girl in the video is named Nastya Rybka. She came from the Belarusian city of Bobruisk and became, in her own words, a “master of seduction.” She took some kind of training course, and now all the men of the capital are at her feet, including oligarchs and dollar billionaires. Now she writes how-to books on how to become an “oligarch huntress” just like her. If you are thinking right now, “Dear God, why am I reading this, why am I here, how do I close this,” just bear with me a little longer. It will all make sense soon.
Obviously, Nastya can write and make up whatever she wants online. If not for one thing. Her Instagram contains a huge number of personal photos of a very real oligarch—Oleg Deripaska. Just look for yourself: this is clearly not something you can fake in Photoshop.
We meticulously cross-checked everything that could be checked—locations, geotags, photo timestamps, Nastya’s comments—and yes, she really did vacation with Deripaska several times. She was at his home in Krasnodar, on his yacht, taking photos there, photographing him in a private setting. All of this is fairly easy to verify, and that is exactly what we did.
Only later did I learn that this story was actually fairly well known. Various tabloids had written a lot about this strange union. Mainly because Deripaska was still married at the time, and Nastya Rybka turned out to be—let me put this very mildly—from the escort-services industry.
I am not trying to insult her in any way; I am literally describing her profession, because we will need that later. Nastya goes through special castings for “models” who then provide escort services for money, including intimate ones. Let us give her the floor:
It may seem perfectly reasonable to you that there is no need for us to discuss Nastya and her relationship with Deripaska. That part is indeed of little interest to us. An oligarch is having fun, entertaining himself this way—there is nothing illegal about that. It would seem we could just close Instagram, laugh at the huntress, and move on.
But another part interests us. And now, finally, we have arrived at the most interesting part.
Of course, I would like to say that we immediately suspected something, picked up the trail, relied on professional instinct, and so on. But in reality, we just got sucked into Nastya’s Instagram, which is very entertaining and full of utterly trashy details about her life and work. And she quite openly and regularly posts photos and videos of Deripaska, who is hardly an insignificant figure in terms of influence, which is surprising at the very least.
And it was one such очередное video about Deripaska that caught the sharp eye of our investigations team.
It may seem strange and meaningless because… well, that is basically what it is. The point is that this is a report on the seduction of an oligarch that Nastya Rybka posted on her Instagram. Or maybe not a report, but a list of achievements. Something like that. We did not alter anything or add anything; we simply downloaded two of her Instagram videos—you cannot post more than a minute there—and stitched them together into one. Take a look:
So, did you notice anything unusual?
I am referring, of course, to the bit at the 33-second mark. In Nastya’s list of achievements, it is item number 10: “RESOLVE THE ISSUE WITH AMERICA.”
This is happening on a yacht. Nastya is recording a conversation on a voice recorder while also taking shaky phone pictures of something. As we will learn shortly, Nastya got onto the yacht together with other “paid models”—there were about six of them—and her job there was to entertain Oleg Deripaska.
SO WHAT DO TALKS ABOUT AMERICA HAVE TO DO WITH ANY OF THIS?!!!
Why is Deripaska telling Nastya—a young woman who is there as decoration—about Russia-U.S. relations and State Department official Victoria Nuland? That is the last thing you would expect in the “yacht-oligarch-models” format. It makes no sense.
Let me insert that same bit of video again—the one that raised our suspicions. Listen carefully to the audio.
Now let us think this through logically. Who is this Sergei Eduardovich? Why is he friends with U.S. State Department official Victoria Nuland? And why is huntress Nastya supposed to listen to all this and understand it? There is not even a last name attached to this Sergei Eduardovich! How could an outsider possibly know who they are talking about?
There is only one answer. Huntress Nastya already knows perfectly well who Sergei Eduardovich is. Because during this conversation, Sergei Eduardovich is sitting right next to her. On the yacht. And that is Sergei Eduardovich Prikhodko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
Here is a photo from the same trip and the same video. Though this one comes from a different item on her list of achievements. Item number 2: “Seduce your boss.” (Boss?! How exactly is he his boss?)
Sergei Eduardovich Prikhodko is not widely known, but he is an extremely influential Russian official. He has spent his entire life in government service. In the late 1990s, he worked as deputy head of the presidential administration. The first deputy chief at the time, incidentally, was Putin. He served as an adviser to President Yeltsin, then President Putin, then President Medvedev, and later—and to this day—he has headed the government apparatus and served as Medvedev’s deputy. Prikhodko is considered a specialist in international relations and arguably the most influential official in that sphere. Not Lavrov—Prikhodko.
And this very same Prikhodko is the man we see on the oligarch’s yacht in the company of Nastya Rybka and other girls from an escort agency.
If you are already feeling sick at this point, take a breath and rest for a couple of minutes. It really does get worse from here.
We bought the BOOK that Nastya Rybka published based on this trip. It describes everything that happened on that yacht down to the dates, hours, and MINUTES. And believe me, if you can possibly overcome your curiosity and not read it—do not read it. Spare your sanity. The book contains far too many details and descriptions. Far too many.
Of course, Nastya does not name the people she sailed with. Nastya is a master of secrecy.
In her book, Deripaska is “Ruslan Zolotov.” And Prikhodko is “DADDY.”
But her secrecy goes no further than changing the names. She shamelessly gives away not only who these people on the yacht are, but also what they were doing.
Here is how she describes “Daddy.”
This is literally Prikhodko’s biography copied out. And no one else fits this description. If anyone actually bought and read this book, they could have carried out the same investigation in five minutes.
Next: a description of the relationship between Deripaska and Prikhodko (forgive me, I cannot bring myself to call him “Daddy”).
I am puzzled too—what on earth is she even talking about? What border guard?! She must have made it up. Although…
Or here is a nice logistical detail:
I am trying very hard not to just write AAAAAAAAAA. For some strange reason, damn it, a top Kremlin official cannot go ashore together with an oligarch and prostitutes. What could those reasons possibly be. “I am puzzled.”
So even a girl from an escort agency from Bobruisk understands that Deripaska and Prikhodko were not just having fun on that yacht—they were conducting business.
All right. Enough, seriously. There is one more excerpt from the book that needs to be published, just for the record. Because this is a form of bribery. I will publish it, and then we will close this ridiculous topic.
There, I did it. You can read the book yourself here (for free, but only with a VPN). Once again, I recommend that you do not.
Now I will do my duty to the skeptics. They tell me, “Alexei, Nastya Rybka is a crazy fool, she made it all up, why do you believe her and post her scandalous quotes?”
Dear skeptics, this boring section on how we verified Nastya’s claims is especially for you.
Let us move on to the more interesting part. We will start with the yacht. Was Nastya there or not? Were Deripaska and Prikhodko there?
Here are photos and video screenshots from Nastya’s Instagram. We chose them because the yacht is visible in them.
Here are photos of the yacht ELDEN, which belongs to Oleg Deripaska. We simply found these photos online.
It is registered through the Russian legal entity LLC “Yacht Club Center” to two offshore companies and Deripaska’s mother. I will not overload this post with screenshots; the documents are in this folder.
Let us compare.
This is absolutely, unquestionably the same yacht, and Nastya was on it.
Were Deripaska and Prikhodko there at the same time? Yes, they were. We even know exactly where they were sitting.
The next question is where and when they were sailing. In her book, Nastya says it was in Greenland. That does not pass our unique skeptic-proof filter, because third-party tracking services do not show such a yacht off the coast of Greenland. Besides, it does not pass the common-sense test either. Crossing the Atlantic on a yacht with prostitutes? Unlikely.
Nastya lied to us in the book, but that is fine. We have her photos of the views from the yacht, and that is enough.
These are the kinds of photos we love. You can clearly see the coastline and a church.
We found this church in exactly 10 minutes. Here it is on Google imagery. And this is Norway.
It is not as if we know every church in the area; what tipped us off was that Norwegian media had written about Deripaska’s yacht. It is in Norway almost constantly, so naturally that is where we started looking.
Purely for sport, we requested all movements of the yacht ELDEN during the time period that interested us and made a great map. We had already proved everything by that point, basically, but we really wanted to show off the map, so here it is.
Our “friends” were sailing for three days in August 2016. On the image below, we marked the point from which the church photo was taken; the yacht spent the night there. The church is even marked on the map.
Despite the fact that Nastya Rybka rather radically changed the country where her trip took place, she described the route in the book very accurately and almost minute by minute. It was extremely helpful that, without changing the dates, she practically kept a perfect log of all her movements.
Nastya also writes that the yacht deliberately made a detour in order to secretly drop Prikhodko off somewhere else, and then soon afterward dropped everyone else off at a normal port. And here is that detour. I do not know whether anyone was actually dropped off there or not—that is hard to prove—but the fact that the yacht deviated sharply from its route is undeniable.
As I write this, I realize I could offer 150 more pieces of evidence and findings like these, but at the same time I understand that this is already enough and it is time to bring this bacchanalia to an end.
Especially since I have one more great story in reserve for you. But I saved it for dessert, so read to the end.
So. It is important to establish a couple of points.
An oligarch taking a top-ranking official out on his private yacht—that is a bribe.
An oligarch paying for this entire extravaganza, including the girls from escort agencies—that, believe it or not, is also a bribe.
Again, Prikhodko had to get somehow to a fairly remote Norwegian peninsula with only one small airport. And on the dates of our trip, two private jets landed there at the same time, both belonging to Deripaska.
One came from Montenegro, where Deripaska has a villa and business interests, and one came from Moscow. Naturally, I do not have the passenger manifests or lists of who was on each jet, but this cannot go unmentioned. If it turns out that Prikhodko flew on Deripaska’s plane, then that too, my friends, is a bribe.
Next. An aggravating circumstance. Our archival aerial footage of Prikhodko’s dacha in the “Sosny” cooperative.
Right there in the foreground you can see it: the house of official Prikhodko, who has never worked in business, measuring 1,500 square meters. The plot is nearly 3 hectares. Even by the lowest estimate, all of this is worth more than 300 million rubles.
And while we are on the subject, it is impossible not to mention Sergei Eduardovich’s apartments. He has two of them—adjacent ones—in this ultra-elite building in Shvedsky Lane, where his neighbors include the families of Transneft and Rosneft chiefs Tokarev and Sechin, Putin’s cronies Chemezov and Timchenko, and a host of other fabulously wealthy people. The total area of the apartments is 350 square meters.
Their market value is 480 million rubles.
Following the usual script, Prikhodko declares huge income in his wife’s name—yes, he has a wife—but there is a problem here too. His wife has no business of her own; she is listed as owning a share in a money-losing yacht club outside Moscow (?!) and nothing else.
And even if, for a second, we pretend to believe in this super-rich wife, THAT MONEY STILL WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ENOUGH even for one apartment in that building! Can you guess what I am implying? Bribes from oligarchs, of course.
And one last thing. A delight for conspiracy theorists and the countless American media outlets and law-enforcement agencies investigating Russian interference in the U.S. election.
A few months ago, American media were ablaze with a story: Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who had received millions of dollars from Deripaska, offered him private briefings on the progress of Trump’s campaign. As part of the investigation, Manafort’s emails were uncovered, and indeed, he had made these offers in writing. This episode became one of the pieces of evidence of Russian interference in the election. The scandal was enormous. Many of you have probably seen the video: a CNN reporter chases Deripaska and asks him questions. Deripaska tells him, GET LOST PLEASE. That is exactly what the reporter is trying to ask him about.
The context is this. Media reports say that Manafort had been on Deripaska’s payroll since 2005. He is one of the best-known and most influential American lobbyists, having served the interests of various dictators and arms dealers since the 1980s. Then, in 2005, he allegedly began lobbying for the interests of the Kremlin and Putin in Washington. Deripaska paid for that. Later they had a joint business venture, and Manafort apparently borrowed money from Deripaska and did not repay it. Let us draw a very restrained conclusion: at the very least, these two men knew each other very well, and one received money from the other.
The logic of the American accusation then goes like this: why would the head of Trump’s campaign give private briefings on the U.S. presidential race to some Russian oligarch? Because the briefings were actually for Putin, the Kremlin, the FSB, whoever you like, and Deripaska was simply PASSING that information on to Putin, as an intermediary. After all, he belongs to the president’s inner circle.
That is exactly the question the CNN reporter is trying to ask Deripaska in the video above.
And in all this American media conspiracy theorizing, this was the part that sounded unconvincing. Putin has so many oligarchs close to him. There was no evidence that Deripaska was passing anything to anyone, and he has no exclusive relationship with Putin either. He is not an official, not a minister, not someone who would make decisions about whether to support Trump in the election or not.
But here is someone who does make those decisions!
There he is, right beside him, cruising on the yacht with him and, as we hear on the recording, discussing politics. Even Nastya Rybka, an eyewitness to all this, tells us: the fishing trip was a cover; in reality there were some important informal negotiations taking place.
All right, before we accidentally create a second Watergate here, let us wrap up the conspiracy theories and move on to the conclusions.
Thanks to—pardon me—the idiocy of the people who sent girls in latex panties to our Moscow headquarters, we caught Deputy Prime Minister Prikhodko red-handed taking a bribe from oligarch Deripaska. And we backed it up with evidence of this official’s elite real estate worth nearly a billion rubles, the origin of which cannot be explained in any plausible way.
At first I wanted to leave the moral side of this story aside, but then I thought: why the hell should I? A top-ranking official responsible for international policy cannot spend his vacation on a yacht with an oligarch and prostitutes. It disgraces the entire country. And what if they are spies? We are supposedly surrounded by enemies, after all!
In 1999, as many people remember well, Putin personally handled the dismissal of Prosecutor General Skuratov. Let me remind you: “a man resembling the prosecutor general” was filmed in the company of “women with reduced social responsibility,” as Putin himself likes to call them. That too was a gift from some businessman. A very similar story.
“Putin is full of self-confidence and even a kind of cheerful swagger,” the journalists present wrote. Wonderful—that is exactly what we need.
So then, Vladimir Vladimirovich, come on—do not betray your principles. Will you dismiss Prikhodko?
I am completely serious. Do not disgrace yourself and the country. Go ahead—look for the receipts for the yacht payments, question the female witnesses; you have done this before, so do it now.
Be sure to question Deripaska, check the border-entry stamps in Prikhodko’s passport. Analyze the video. Just do not forget, as last time, to create a special interagency Security Council commission. Then all of you together can decide whether the man in the yacht video resembles the deputy prime minister. After that, you can hold a press conference and once again be filled with “cheerful swagger.”
And as for you, dear readers, I ask you to prepare for an incredible circus performance. We are about to watch sad clowns rush to defend both Prikhodko and Deripaska instead of removing a corrupt official from office. This entire corrupt system and propaganda machine will fight for the honor of an ordinary bribe-taker.
And one more request. Let us all work together to make sure that in the beautiful Russia of the future, this kind of shame and filth never happens again. We cannot support a system whose goal is the survival and prosperity of officials and oligarchs like these. It will be very difficult to change. To keep their seats, they will seize every opportunity—to lie, stay silent, suppress free speech, and rig elections. Boycott these elections. Take part in the voters’ strike. And sign up as election observers—together we will catch the crooks who stole our money and our beautiful country.
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