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Last week our office was ransacked. They took all the equipment, froze our accounts, and opened a criminal case. Over the weekend, they trashed the backup studio of Navalny Live as well. They took everything there too. The main studio had been smashed up a little earlier. Most of our employees had their homes searched. Almost all of them are witnesses in a fabricated criminal case about “laundering a billion rubles” (about $16 million at the time). Alexei Navalny is in jail, Ivan Zhdanov is in jail, Georgy Alburov is in jail.
They are obviously trying to destroy us—the ACF (Anti-Corruption Foundation)—and make it impossible for us to do our job: fighting corruption. But of course that won’t work. And to be honest, it only makes us angrier and more determined.
So watch our new investigation. It’s about the man responsible for keeping independent candidates off the ballot in the Moscow City Duma elections. Pamfilova is fronting this whole circus, while today’s hero, Boris Ebzeev, comes up with the legal justifications.
He may be a supporting character, but he is a very important one. A legal pillar of Putin’s regime. And the sheer brazenness with which he steals deserves a place on the wall of fame.
In a sense, Boris Ebzeev is the key member of the Central Election Commission. Its brain center under both Churov and Pamfilova.
A former Constitutional Court judge with 17 years on the bench. Former president of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic (incidentally, Arashukov was his official aide). One of the authors of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, author of several hundred academic works, a professor, a Doctor of Law—you could go on listing his titles and distinctions for a long time.
His job, both at the CEC and at the Constitutional Court, is simple in essence but difficult in execution: he bends, twists, and contorts the law so that the criminal decisions of Russia’s leadership look… well, more or less legally acceptable. Putin’s endless presidential terms, the absence of independent candidates at any level, blatant election fraud, “democratically elected” United Russia deputies across the country—for all of that, Boris Safarovich is the man to thank. In 2017, he kept Navalny off the presidential ballot. In 2019, just last week, he did the same to a group of independent candidates running for the Moscow City Duma.
That’s Boris Safarovich Ebzeev for you.
Now let’s get to the point. We’ve covered his professional biography; now let’s talk about his personal life. Ebzeev is 69 years old. He has a wife, an adult son—also named Boris—and a grandson, Artur.
Ebzeev is very proud of his grandson Artur. Here, for example, is an article. The Central Election Commission is celebrating the 70th anniversary of Victory Day (the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II), and a chess tournament has been organized for the occasion. Participants include Anatoly Karpov, former CEC head Churov, and Boris Safarovich Ebzeev’s ten-year-old grandson, Artur Ebzeev. It also says that by age 10 he had already earned a Class III adult chess ranking.
There really is something to be proud of there—the boy is talented.
But an adult chess ranking is by no means little Artur’s main achievement, or even his most impressive one. I’m not afraid to say it: Boris Ebzeev’s grandson is probably the MOST talented and successful child in human history.
Because when he was 4 years old... FOUR YEARS OLD... he bought a 274-square-meter apartment in the Ostozhenka area, in an elite private residential building on 2nd Zachatievsky Lane. The so-called “Golden Mile.”
This is the building where a 4-year-old boy bought the largest apartment available. Two stories, with a separate entrance. The market value of an apartment like that is around 500 million rubles (roughly $8 million at the time).
Let me stress this. This apartment was NOT GIVEN to 4-year-old Artur Ebzeev. The 4-year-old grandson of a Constitutional Court judge BOUGHT IT. A purchase agreement was signed in his name, with a contract number and date, money was transferred—everything official.
Over the lifetime of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, we’ve probably ordered and studied thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of property records—and we have genuinely never seen anything like this. This is some completely new level of shamelessness.
But now you’re going to be even more surprised.
Artur’s grandfather, who at the time was head of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, obviously could not have had the money to buy an apartment like that for his grandson. But maybe the father bought it? Maybe the father was an oligarch, we thought—almost hopefully? Let’s see what the younger Boris Ebzeev was doing.
At the time the apartment was purchased, the younger Boris Ebzeev was DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE PENSION FUND OF RUSSIA.
This is one of those rare cases where you can say with certainty that there is no lawful way to explain this purchase. There is simply no scenario in which a family of state officials could have had an extra half a billion rubles lying around for an apartment.
Just to be thorough, let us report this: we checked in a million different ways whether Artur_Ebzeev_the_apartment_buyer might be some other Artur Ebzeev. An adult and a wealthy one.
No. First, he is the only existing Artur Borisovich Ebzeev. You can check for yourself by typing his name into a search engine. The only two mentions are references to a schoolboy.
Second, Artur Borisovich Ebzeev also owns an apartment in Krylatskoye. The address is Rublyovskoye Highway, Building 34, Block 2, Apartment 520.
This is exactly the address where Boris Borisovich Ebzeev—his father—registers his cars. The date of birth matches that of the son of CEC member Boris Safarovich Ebzeev. He is a public figure and does not hide the fact of this family relationship—or his date of birth.
Shall we continue our story?
When Artur Ebzeev was 7 years old, he entered the real estate market once again, made a deal with an offshore company from the British Virgin Islands, and sold the above-mentioned apartment.
A week before that, he invested a couple hundred million rubles in a house on Rublyovka, in the Gorki-8 settlement.
Here is the land registry entry. The buyer is Artur Borisovich Ebzeev, who would turn 8 a month later.
As of now, we assume Artur is enjoying his school holidays, since in September he’ll be starting 8th grade—and then the OGE exams (Russia’s standardized exams after 9th grade) will be just around the corner. Artur’s father, Boris Borisovich Ebzeev, may have left the Pension Fund, but he did not leave public service. He works as CEO of an energy company in southern Russia—a state-owned enterprise (part of Rosseti) that supplies electricity to four Russian regions: Rostov, Astrakhan, and Volgograd regions, and the Republic of Kalmykia.
And as for the grandfather... you already know all about him. He is destroying the institution of elections in Russia.
We have an absolutely legal, highly effective, and above all SIMPLE way to stop the Ebzeevs from stealing so brazenly and mocking us—and common sense—in the process. The elder Ebzeev is responsible for the elections. Both formally and personally, he is accountable for the results to Putin, Sobyanin, and the presidential administration. If they go “successfully” (well, successfully for them, for United Russia), Ebzeev will surely get another medal or certificate for how neatly he shut out the independent candidates and kept them off the ballot in the Moscow City Duma elections. Let’s not allow that “success” to happen.
Smart Voting will help us do it. If all of us, together, vote on September 8 for the candidate with the best chance of defeating the United Russia nominee, then there simply won’t be any United Russia deputies left. Sign up. We’ll send you the name. On election day, you vote. That’s it. We get a Duma free of United Russia, and Ebzeev gets enormous problems.
And one more very important thing. You will do a huge service if you help spread this video. This Ebzeev sincerely hopes that he will get away with all his crimes. That, as a reward, Putin will make sure Ebzeev can steal with impunity and without limits. The more people learn what kind of people really run our country—about their 4-year-old millionaire grandsons—the sooner all of this will end. Share the link, and you bring the beautiful Russia of the future a little closer.