What a luxurious mansion we’ve uncovered. Absolutely mind-blowing. Columns, gardens, statues.
And inside? So much gold!!! Everywhere you look—marble, gilding, velvet.
Opulent in the most over-the-top way. Clearly some fabulously wealthy people live here. I won’t even ask you to guess who—it’s impossible. Watch our new investigation:
I don’t want to show my hand right away—better to give you a few more photos first. They’re just too delicious to rush through.
This foyer really impressed us. It has a kind of colonial feel, doesn’t it? A grand staircase, and blackamoor-style lamp figures greet the owners right at the entrance.
And here are a couple more photos of the living room. Once again: two-story columns, stucco, a fireplace, and of course everything gleams with gold. Must be some Arab sheikh living here, surely.
And this is the dining room. You could suffocate from the sheer luxury. More mirrors, more crystal chandeliers, more columns! Ten velvet-and-gold throne-like chairs are arranged around a gleaming oak table—you can close your eyes and picture a formal dinner here: bustling servants carrying out course after course, while an attentive butler makes sure the guests’ wine never runs out.
The house whose interiors we’re showing you is enormous: 1,100 square meters (about 11,840 square feet), 21 rooms. Grand both outside and in.
Naturally, the question is: whose is it? Who owns it?
Who works in such a lavish study and thinks about Russia while gazing at a marble fireplace framed by golden lions? A president, a governor, a minister? Who strolls through this grand green hall admiring the sky painted across the ceiling panels?
Looking at the bedroom and all the gold in it, you might think we’ve found Donald Trump’s secret country house outside Moscow. He would fit right into this interior.
From the bedroom, you step straight into a bathroom styled like Roman baths. Once again: stucco, marble, and gold. So who bathes in this round Jacuzzi?
There’s much more we’d like to show you, but it’s probably time to reveal the main secret—who owns all this lavish splendor.
So, any guesses? Rotenberg? Gennady “Gangrene” Timchenko? Putin? Shoigu? Kadyrov? Who?
Dramatic pause. Breathe in. Breathe out.
The owner of this house is ELENA MALYSHEVA.
This estate, where nearly everything that can be gilded has been gilded, was purchased personally by the country’s chief TV doctor, the longtime host of Channel One (Russia’s main state TV channel), who has been “treating” us from our television screens for 23 years—Elena Malysheva.
And if you think this is already a shocking, no-way-can-that-be-true moment, just wait. We still need to figure out where Elena Malysheva’s palace is located. There’s another huge surprise coming.
It’s in New York. Well, more precisely, in the suburbs. On the state line, in neighboring New Jersey. It’s less than 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) from Elena Malysheva’s place to downtown Manhattan.
The mansion we’ve been looking at was bought by her in 2016 for $6.4 million. Or 430 million rubles at the exchange rate at the time. It became the most expensive real estate sale in that New Jersey county in 2016. Feeling proud of your compatriot yet?
To dispel any doubts about namesakes: here is the purchase agreement, and the buyers are listed as Elena Malysheva and Igor Malyshev. “Our” Malysheva’s husband has the same name.
And here is the part of the contract with the signatures. Let’s compare the signature of Elena Malysheva from New Jersey with the autograph of Elena Malysheva, host of the show *Live Healthy*.
We compare them and cast aside the last remaining doubts. This is Elena Malysheva’s American home.
We have many more interesting details, but let’s immediately explain what the problem is and why such an unusual figure has suddenly become the subject of an ACF (Anti-Corruption Foundation) investigation. You’ll notice the problem right away if you watch Channel One for a day or two. Please don’t do that on purpose, I’m begging you, but still—it’s important to keep in mind that most Russians watch television. And almost all elderly people do.
So if you watch Channel One, you’ll find that Elena Malysheva is practically never off the screen. She is the country’s main voice on coronavirus. The main source of information. Her show Live Healthy airs every day, and every week she hosts another program, Health. She appears in the news—morning and evening—to talk about coronavirus; she talks about the virus on one talk show and on another hugely popular talk show. She even made it onto Evening Urgant (a popular Russian late-night show), where she also explained everything about coronavirus to Russians. A true national favorite—a sweet woman, a doctor, an expert, and television’s top medical authority.
Now let’s look at what she actually says. We studied her appearances on Channel One over the past couple of months and were horrified. Elena Malysheva has been conducting a consistent, deliberate campaign to downplay the danger of coronavirus. She goes on dozens of programs and says there is no danger, that things are not as bad as they seem. That only old people die. That the virus is only in China. That a disease which, in just a couple of months, had already killed more than 200,000 people is just an ordinary seasonal infection. And that the panic is connected to “something else”—apparently some kind of global conspiracy.
And if Dr. Malysheva hasn’t reached you through the TV screen, she’ll find you online. She has more than a million followers on Instagram, where she tells them that coronavirus is a MIRACLE. A miracle of miracles.
Elena Malysheva alone has done more to help spread coronavirus in Russia than anyone else. And if you think this was some accidental slip-up or a doctor’s mistake, you are very much mistaken. Malysheva is an ordinary propagandist, like Kiselyov or Solovyov, just in a different format—medical propaganda. At first glance she may seem like the host of an entertainment show with giant dancing human organs.
But in reality, she is a consistent, cold-blooded propagandist for the harmful agenda of Putin, Sobyanin, and United Russia. Malysheva is a member of the central штаб of the All-Russia People’s Front (a pro-Kremlin political movement). And look at what she says about the retirement age:
Beautiful, isn’t it? “Raise the age to 67! People live 30–40 years after retirement.” Elena Vasilyevna, maybe in New Jersey people do live 30–40 years after retirement, but in Russia half of all men do not even make it to retirement age.
Elena Malysheva served as Sobyanin’s authorized representative in elections. She simply adores Sergei Semyonovich—see for yourself:
And Moscow, in her opinion, has become the best place on earth. Yet the house worth half a billion rubles that Dr. Malysheva bought for herself is not in the best place in the world, but in New Jersey. In keeping with the unchanging tradition of state propagandists.
When the police, on Sobyanin’s orders, won’t let you into the metro or drag you to the station because you went out to buy bread, how do the authorities explain it? The people are to blame. They go out for barbecues, they don’t stay in quarantine. But who spent a month and a half, every single day, using the country’s biggest TV channel to hammer into those people’s heads that coronavirus isn’t dangerous? That it’s nonsense. That it’s no worse than the flu. Malysheva first convinced everyone that there was nothing to worry about. And then she supports the authorities who are now fining and jailing people for saying there’s nothing to worry about.
And she keeps getting paid. A salary. But her beloved Putin and Sobyanin won’t give you a single kopeck. For you, apparently, the budget would burst.
All right, back to America. We have unfinished business there. We’ve established that the house belongs to Elena Malysheva and her husband, also a doctor, Igor Malyshev. But they are not the ones living there, at least not now. So who spends their days and nights amid the golden décor of this columned mansion? Who dines in its pompous halls and sleeps in its golden bedrooms?
The answer is in this video titled “A Little Song About Testicles.” It’s a clip from Elena Malysheva’s program on Channel One.
The young man playing the role of the right testicle is Elena Malysheva’s son, Yuri.
He is the one living in the American house. He is also a young doctor and works at a New York hospital. The taste for fame seems to run in the family—he also periodically appears on Malysheva’s show on Channel One. On top of that, he records his own videos in English—on Instagram. In both subject matter and style, they strongly resemble his mother’s.
And it is on his Instagram account that we find those familiar interiors.
Let’s quickly settle one important question. Maybe he bought the house himself—he’s an adult, after all? Definitely not. Mommy bought the house for him. First, that’s clear from the documents. Second, Yuri Malyshev, who is 32, only recently finished his residency at one of the hospitals. He is still a very young doctor. There is no way he could have had $6.5 million—not through a mortgage, not any other way.
But that’s not all. Look at this Instagram video by Yuri Malyshev. In it, he explains what Bernie Sanders is really suffering from. Behind Yuri, it’s hard not to notice the New York skyline:
This video was filmed in this building on Park Avenue.
Midtown, just a few blocks from Grand Central Terminal and the Empire State Building. More specifically, Yuri is standing in this very apartment—we can compare the view ourselves.
This apartment was purchased by the Malyshevs in October 2014 for $2 million. It is registered to a legal entity incorporated at the address of the Malyshevs’ main estate in New Jersey, and in the documents we find the signature of Vasily Malyshev.
That is Yuri’s brother, Elena Malysheva’s younger son.
But don’t think, dear viewer, that the brothers are sharing a single New York apartment and squeezing in together. In the same building, they have another apartment as well. Exactly the same, just on a different floor.
It was bought on the same day as the first one and registered in exactly the same way.
So that makes two apartments in central New York, each 110 square meters (about 1,184 square feet), with a total value of $4.2 million. Not in the best place on earth—Moscow—unfortunately, but I suppose it will do. At the time the apartments were bought, the Malyshev brothers were 26 and 23. Clearly, they could not have had $4 million of their own. This was a gift from mom.
All told, Elena Malysheva spent nearly $11 million on her American real estate. Where did that kind of money come from? We honestly tried to figure it out. It definitely wasn’t from Malysheva’s husband—he is a scientist, a professor at Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry. Elena Vasilyevna herself is often described as the owner of an entire business empire. That is partly true—she does indeed have her own line of diet foods and a chain of clinics bearing her name. But neither of those brings in anything comparable to the sums spent on the house and apartments in New York. We can see that from the financial reports, and Elena Vasilyevna herself says that her main income is her salary from Channel One.
On a completely unprofitable channel that you and I support with our taxes. We support the channel, and specifically Malysheva’s program, which receives subsidies from the state budget as “socially significant.”
It is we who paid for Elena Malysheva’s luxurious American old age, with an American pension and healthcare system, where, we have no doubt, she will live 30 or even 40 years after retirement. And how has Elena Vasilyevna repaid us? With sabotage, criminal disinformation, and of course endless bootlicking of those in power.
Why should all the money of our rich country go to people like the Malyshevs? Right now doctors and nurses are working 12-hour shifts. They can’t even step away to use the bathroom. They have to fight tooth and nail for the salary bonuses Putin promised them. They were promised, but they are not being paid. And what about the tens of millions of ordinary people who have now lost their incomes? They are told to stay home—but no one explains what money they are supposed to live on.
Russia’s reserve funds now hold nearly 18 trillion rubles. That is our shared money. We demand that part of it be paid directly to the people. At least 20,000 rubles each. We need to unite the whole country and collect millions of signatures under these demands. Sign it. Otherwise, your share of the reserve will end up in New Jersey with the admirer of Putin and Sobyanin.