Hi.
Today I have a new investigation for you. I rewrote the script for this video about three hundred times. Because it is practically impossible to describe in words (decent ones) 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 last year sent some bizarre girls in latex underwear to our campaign office helped us catch, red-handed, one of Russia’s top officials vacationing on an oligarch’s yacht together 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 urge 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 paper, as they say, can bear anything, so make yourselves comfortable and get ready to read our most scandalous investigation.
These are shots from a report by Gabrelyanov’s trash outlet LifeNews. It takes place at our old Moscow campaign office on Prospekt Mira.
You can also watch the full video and see how a group of wildly unhinged girls literally storms our office. They are dressed in extremely inappropriate outfits: latex police costumes, batons, whips, handcuffs, the whole lot. The visitors aggressively harassed and grabbed everyone in sight and, all in all, behaved very badly. They were politely shown out of the office fairly quickly. The video then NATURALLY appears on the LifeNews website, whose reporters just happened to be passing by with professional equipment.
Our offices have seen this kind of outrage many times before—various pro-Putin squads, grandmothers from Krasnodar, people yelling and trashing everything in sight. But no one had ever shown up in latex underwear before, so we got curious: who exactly sent these girls? Who were they—some kind of Cossack girls? The granddaughters of those Krasnodar grannies? A special unit from the presidential administration? We were genuinely curious who had come up with something this, frankly, low.
We dug around on social media and realized that something was seriously wrong with these girls. And it was not just about their visit to our office. 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 Commonwealth of Independent States), declares that she wants to give herself to Harvey Weinstein.
Or here is the best part. If you are at work, please watch 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 office “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 capital’s men are at her feet, including oligarchs and dollar billionaires. She now 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,” hang on just a little longer. It will all make sense soon.
Obviously, Nastya can write and make up whatever she wants on the internet. If not for one thing. Her Instagram contains a great many personal photos of a very real oligarch—Oleg Deripaska. Just look for yourselves: this is clearly not something you could 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, visited his home in Krasnodar, went on his yacht, took photos there, and photographed him in a domestic setting. All of this is easy enough to verify, and that is exactly what we did.
Only later did I learn that this story was, in fact, fairly well known. Various tabloids had written a lot about this strange union. Mainly because Deripaska was still married at the time, and the girl, 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 close Instagram and move on. We laughed at the huntress, and that should be enough.
But another part interests us. And now, at last, we have reached the most interesting part.
Of course, I would like to write that we immediately suspected something, picked up the trail, relied on professional instinct, and so on. But in reality, we simply 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 by no means an unimportant man, which is surprising at the very least.
And it was one of these many videos about Deripaska that caught the sharp eye of our investigations team.
It may seem strange and pointless because… well, that is more or less 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.”
It is happening on a yacht. Nastya is recording the conversation on a voice recorder while also taking shaky photos with her phone. As we will learn a little later, Nastya got onto the yacht in the company of 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 girl who is there as decoration—about U.S.-Russia 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 once again the very clip from the video that raised our suspicions. Listen carefully to the audio.
*Deripaska: Do you know that story? We have bad relations with America. Why? Because Sergey Eduardovich’s girlfriend is in charge of them—Nuland, that is her name. And when she was young, your age, she spent a month on a Russian whaling ship. And after that she hates the country. Unidentified man: Us? Deripaska: No. She hates you [inaudible]. Unidentified man: And why does she hate [it]? Girl: She got bad sailors. Unidentified man: What, did they rape her or something? *
Now let us think this through logically. Who is this Sergey 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 surname attached to this Sergey Eduardovich. How could an outsider possibly know who is being discussed?
There is only one answer. Huntress Nastya already knows perfectly well who Sergey Eduardovich is. Because Sergey Eduardovich is sitting right next to her during this conversation. On the yacht. And that is Sergey Eduardovich Prikhodko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
Here is a photo from the same trip and the same video. This one, however, comes from a different item on her list of achievements. Item number 2: “Seduce your boss.” (Boss?! How exactly is he his boss?)
Sergey 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 served as deputy head of the presidential administration. The first deputy head at the time, incidentally, was Putin. He was an adviser to President Yeltsin, then to President Putin, then to 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 almost the most influential official in that sphere. Not Lavrov—Prikhodko.
And it is this very Prikhodko whom 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 is about to get much worse.
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 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 beyond changing the names, her secrecy goes no further. 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 over. And no one else fits this description. If anyone actually bought and read this book, they could have conducted the same investigation in five minutes.
Next, her description of the relationship between Deripaska and Prikhodko (forgive me, I cannot bring myself to call him “Daddy”).
“I did not know who Daddy was. Why they called him that. No one ever called him by name. But Ruslan backs down before him. He never argues with him. He listens to him. And Daddy is the only person Ruslan never jokes about. Who is this? Who could a billionaire be afraid of? It was Daddy who was dressed as a border guard at the very beginning. A border guard is in charge of a billionaire? And the billionaire cannot get a word in when Daddy brazenly hits on his woman? What is this? I am puzzled.”
I am puzzled too—what on earth is she talking about? What border guard?! She must have made it up. Although...
Or here is a nice logistical detail:
“Daddy disappeared while still on deck... Such a mysterious figure. It seems Daddy was taken away before the yacht docked at shore; as I understood it, for some strange reason he could not even go ashore together with Ruslan.”
I am exercising enormous restraint trying not to write AAAAAAAAA. 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.”
“What do you do on a yacht? And what was Ruslan doing there? Just fishing? No! Daddy was there. These were informal negotiations about something important for Ruslan.”
So even a girl from an escort agency from Bobruisk understands that Deripaska and Prikhodko were not just having fun on the yacht—they were handling business matters.
All right. Enough, seriously. There is one more excerpt from the book that needs to be published, purely for the record. Because this is a form of bribery. I will publish it, and then we will close this ridiculous topic.
There, I have done it. You can read the book yourselves here (for free, but only with a VPN). Once again, I recommend that you do not.
Now I turn to my duty toward 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 verify Nastya’s claims is especially for you.
- We believe her claims only if they are confirmed by some method or source unrelated to Nastya - If we see a photograph confirming what is written in the book, we believe it with a fair degree of confidence - If we see a selfie or a photo of Nastya in a particular interior, we believe it with a high degree of confidence - If we see a video or audio recording, we believe it even more - If we read something related to routes, geolocations, etc., we check it through third-party services—and if it is confirmed, we believe it
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 through Google.
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 with screenshots; the documents are in the folder.
Let us compare.
This is absolutely the same yacht, and Nastya sailed 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 the book, Nastya writes that 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 also fails the common-sense test. Crossing the Atlantic on a yacht with prostitutes? Hardly.
Nastya misled us in the book, but that is all right. 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 shoreline and a church.
We found this church in exactly 10 minutes. Here it is in Google images. And this is Norway.
It is not as if we know every church in the area; what helped us was that Norwegian media had written about Deripaska’s yacht. It is in Norway almost constantly, so naturally that is where we looked first.
Purely out of sporting interest, we requested all movements of the yacht ELDEN during the time period that interested us and made a nice map. We had, in principle, already proved everything, 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 map below, the point from which the church photo was taken is marked; the yacht spent the night there. The church is even marked on the map.
Although Nastya Rybka rather radically changed the country where her trip took place, she described the route in the book very accurately, almost minute by minute. It is extremely helpful that, without changing the dates, she essentially kept perfect notes on all her movements.
Nastya also writes that the yacht deliberately made a detour in order to drop off Prikhodko somewhere else in secret, and then shortly afterward dropped off everyone else at a normal port. And here is that detour. I do not know whether anyone was actually dropped off there—that is hard to prove—but the fact that the yacht deviated significantly from its route is beyond doubt.
As I write this, I realize I could offer another 150 pieces of evidence and discoveries like these, but at the same time I understand that enough is 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 is a bribe.
An oligarch paying for this entire spectacle, including the girls from escort agencies—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 arrived there at the same time, both belonging to Deripaska.
One came from Montenegro, where Deripaska has a villa and business interests, and one from Moscow. Naturally, I do not have passenger manifests or lists of who was on each jet, but this cannot go unmentioned. If it turns out that Prikhodko flew in on Deripaska’s plane, then that too, my friends, is a bribe.
Next, an aggravating circumstance. Our archival aerial video flyover of Prikhodko’s country house 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 almost 3 hectares. Even by the lowest estimate, all of this is worth more than 300 million rubles.
Since the subject has come up, it is impossible not to mention Sergey Eduardovich’s apartments. He has two of them—adjacent units—in this ultra-elite building in Shvedsky Lane, where his neighbors include the families of Transneft and Rosneft chiefs Tokarev and Sechin, Putin cronies Chemezov and Timchenko, and a host of other fabulously wealthy people. The total area of the apartments is 350 square meters.
Market value: 480 million rubles.
Prikhodko, following the usual script, declares enormous income for his wife (yes, he does have 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 yacht club outside Moscow that earns nothing (?!) and nothing else.
And even if, for a second, we believed in this super-rich wife, THAT MONEY STILL WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ENOUGH for even one apartment in that building! Can you guess what I am hinting at? Bribes from oligarchs, of course.
And finally, 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: Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman, 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 offered all this in writing, and the 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 runs after Deripaska asking 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 as far back as 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. And in 2005 he allegedly began lobbying for the interests of the Kremlin and Putin in Washington. Deripaska paid for this. 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 know each other very well, and one received money from the other.
The logic of the American accusation then goes as follows. Why would the head of Trump’s campaign arrange private briefings on the U.S. presidential campaign for some Russian oligarch? Because the briefings were really for Putin, the Kremlin, the FSB, whoever you like, and Deripaska was simply PASSING that information on (as an agent) to Putin. After all, he belongs to the president’s inner circle.
That is precisely the question the CNN reporter is trying to ask Deripaska in the video above.
“Were you a secret channel of communication between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign, Mr. Deripaska? Mr. Deripaska, why are you not answering questions?”
And in all this American media conspiracy theorizing, that particular part sounded unconvincing. Putin has so many oligarchs close to him. There was no evidence that Deripaska was passing anything to anyone, nor does he have any exclusive relationship with Putin. He is not an official or a minister who would be in a position to 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 was a cover; in reality there were some important informal negotiations.
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, forgive me, the idiocy of the people who sent girls in latex underwear to our Moscow office, we caught Deputy Prime Minister Prikhodko red-handed taking a bribe from oligarch Deripaska. And we backed it up with nearly a billion rubles’ worth of elite real estate owned by this official, the origin of which cannot be explained in any way at all.
At first I wanted to leave aside the moral side of this story, but then I thought: what the hell? A top-ranking official responsible for international policy cannot spend his vacation on a yacht with an oligarch and prostitutes. It disgraces the whole country. And what if they are spies? We are surrounded by enemies, after all!
In 1999, as many remember very 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 of 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, dismiss Prikhodko, will you?
I am absolutely 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 sort of thing before, so do it now as well.
Be sure to question Deripaska, check the border stamps in Prikhodko’s passport. Analyze the video. Just don’t forget, like last time, to set up a special interagency commission under the Security Council. Then all of you can jointly decide whether the man in the yacht video looks like the deputy prime minister. After that, you can hold a press conference and once again be filled with “cheerful bravado.”
And as for you, dear readers, I ask you to get ready for an incredible circus performance. We are about to watch sad clowns, instead of forcing a corrupt official to resign, rush to defend both Prikhodko and Deripaska. And this entire corrupt system and propaganda machine will fight for the honor of an ordinary bribe-taker.
And one more request. Let’s all work together to make sure that in the beautiful Russia of the future, there is never again such shame and filth. We must not support a system whose purpose is the survival and prosperity of officials and oligarchs like these. It will be very difficult to achieve. To keep hold of their seats, they will seize every opportunity — to lie, to stay silent, to suppress freedom of speech, and to rig elections. Boycott these elections. Take part in the voters’ strike. And sign up as observers — together we will catch the crooks who stole our money and our beautiful country.
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