We’re about to show you footage you’ve most likely seen before. This is the attack on Kyiv in October of last year; here is the famous pedestrian bridge that was hit by a missile:
And this is a photograph of one of the bombed combined heat and power plants in western Ukraine; you can see the tail of the missile here.
Kyiv was bombed with the same ones — these are Kh-101 missiles. And here is the actual moment one of these missiles is launched from a Russian bomber. This type of cruise missile is regularly used in attacks on Ukraine; hundreds of residential buildings have been destroyed by them. They are made by the Raduga design bureau, which is part of the Tactical Missiles Corporation (KTRV).
You have definitely seen this image. A yellow kitchen, a bowl of fruit on the table, dishes in the sink and on the stove.
This is that bombed apartment building. It was January of this year; 46 people were killed there. The building was hit by a Kh-22 missile — also a KTRV design.
The same kind of missile hit the shopping mall in Kremenchuk. And just recently: the city of Uman, 23 people killed. Six children. Their building was hit by a Kh-101 missile. The same manufacturer.
And then there is the Zircon missile. It was supposedly formally commissioned in January — by Putin personally. Zircon is believed to be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead as well. In 2018, during his address to the Federation Council (Russia’s upper house of parliament), Putin showed menacing animated videos — one featured the warhead of the Avangard system flying toward America, supposedly able to evade all air-defense systems. All of this is also developed by Tactical Missiles Corporation.
KTRV is one of the largest defense holdings in the country and in the world. Forty factories, design bureaus, and enterprises spread across the country. More than 50,000 employees. In theory — well, if you believe Putin — this is our shield, our security guarantee, the symbol of Russia’s strength and power.
But in reality, for Putin’s officials, this is not a shield or a symbol at all. First and foremost, it is hundreds of billions of rubles in revenue from defense contracts — state budget money that they shamelessly steal.
Now let’s move to Prague — right into the heart of an “unfriendly” state. Few people remember this now, but the Czech Republic was the first European country to be put on Russia’s list of unfriendly states. That was in May 2021, before the war.
At the time, it was not really clear what that meant, but two countries were declared Russia’s worst enemies: the United States and the Czech Republic. So you had to stay on your guard — you never know.
In reality, those lists were just a formality by that point. In practice, the Czech Republic had long been a regular target of propagandists. Lavrov declared that the Czech Republic had switched to “Russophobic rails.” Simonyan claims that in the Czech Republic, young children are taken away from their families if they do not support Ukraine. And on the program 60 Minutes, they lament that the Czech Republic is so cold and poor that schoolchildren have to sit in class wrapped in blankets. Horrifying! Everything is decaying, and it’s all Russophobia.
And beyond that, there is the elephant in the room: NATO. The Czechs, Poles, and Hungarians were the first countries from the so-called former Eastern Bloc to join NATO. That was in 1999, a quarter of a century ago. Since then, the Czech Republic has been an important and full-fledged member of the alliance. They have supported Ukraine clearly and consistently: from the first days of the war, they have supplied tanks, ammunition, air-defense systems, and helicopters. And a couple of months ago, they elected a new president: an army general, the former chair of NATO’s Military Committee — in other words, once the top military figure in the entire alliance. So yes, it sends chills down the spine: NATO, support for Ukraine, and “Russophobia.” In Putin’s eyes, the Czech Republic is a mortal enemy, a country posing a real threat.
So why are we interested in the Czech Republic, this enemy stronghold? Here’s why: take a look at this old four-story building.
Let’s look at the entrance. There are doorbells here, and next to them it says who occupies the building. We see buzzers with unit numbers, and at the very top the names of two companies — Alterra and Riomax. Those are the ones we need.
If you enter those names into the Czech company register, it is easy enough to find out that both firms belong to a certain Russian citizen, Rostislav Zorikov.
And in fact, not just the companies. The entire building. In the land registry extract, we can see that both the building and the land beneath it belong to that same Zorikov.
A rather expensive purchase — the building can be valued at 6 million euros. So, shall we get acquainted with Rostislav?
The most loyal viewers of our YouTube channel may remember that the name Zorikov has already come up in one of our videos. Rostislav Zorikov is the son-in-law of the head of Tactical Missiles Corporation — Boris Obnosov. He is married to Obnosov’s daughter. In that video, now almost five years old, Navalny described a typical kickback scheme in the defense industry — how the family of Russia’s chief missile maker, Obnosov, steals from missile production itself.
Here was the story back then: KTRV is Russia’s largest defense holding, producing missiles and aerial bombs. The company itself traces its history all the way back to 1924.
During World War II (known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War), instruments and equipment for frontline aviation were developed there. In the 1950s, they began designing missiles. Design bureaus and factories across the country — today all of this exists as a holding of 40 enterprises. It was created in 2003, and Obnosov was appointed to lead it the same year. That means he has held the post for twenty years: one very specific person on whose shoulders Russia’s defense capability has supposedly rested for many years.
Obnosov is, naturally, one of Putin’s official election proxies, and he reports to him personally.
He serves as the public face of Russian missile manufacturing. He appears on television and shows new developments to Putin.
And he even gives Medvedev a tour.
A year and a half ago, Obnosov was awarded the title Hero of Russia. And he follows the party line to the letter. Here are recent photos: standing in front of a “We Don’t Abandon Our Own” poster, he is telling schoolchildren something.
And his corporation starts publishing a special propaganda bulletin — the Z-Herald.
Or take Medvedev’s recent public outburst — remember that one? He was threatening nuclear apocalypse. It all took place at one of KTRV’s facilities, and our Obnosov was sitting in the front row.
And as is always the case with Putin’s officials, Obnosov steals shamelessly. In his case, he steals from the country’s defense capability. In 2018, thanks to an investigation by Roman Anin, it became known that KTRV has a special company through which purchases of all the components it needs are routed. Billions of rubles. Obnosov himself selected and appointed this company. And it turned out that 20% of it belonged to his own daughter, Olga Zorikova.
“Hmm, a family dynasty — second-generation defense contractors,” some might think. But no. Obnosov’s daughter was 23 when she became one of the biggest contractors in Russia’s defense industry. At the time, she worked as a makeup artist and hairdresser, doing wedding hairstyles. Apparently, she supplied missile components in her spare time between hair appointments.
That is the short version. In reality, there was much more, and it was much worse: Obnosov’s daughter and her husband Rostislav Zorikov were involved in a whole range of shady schemes. KTRV property somehow ended up in their hands for next to nothing, and they skimmed a percentage off supply contracts. In short, the usual Putin-era hellscape of corruption and lawlessness. The kids got their hands on defense budgets.
It was a plain crime even then, five years ago. But you have to admit, the context has changed now. Back then, all of this was supposedly being done for the country’s overall defense capability, to protect the borders in some hypothetical situation. Those missiles mostly existed in Putin’s animated videos; now each one means more dead bodies every single day.
That old investigation of ours was called “How Putin’s Missiles Turn into Alpine Chalets.” We could call this one almost the same thing. Except that years later, the missiles have also turned into penthouses, Rolls-Royces, and Lamborghinis. And once again, not in Russia.
Let’s get reacquainted with our protagonists. So: the married couple Olga and Rostislav Zorikov.
She is the daughter of Putin’s chief missile adviser. She now works at a family events agency called Family Key Club. We do not really understand what that is ourselves, but on her Instagram, a month and a half after the war began, Olga wrote that she wanted to bring goodness, beauty, and warmth into these dark times. What happened, one wants to ask? Maybe her father knows.
In short, she works at some agency that can organize a wedding, a family celebration, plan a vacation, or invite you to a workshop. For example, one of their events is an “aroma introduction.” An aromatherapist conducts a diagnostic session, while a psychologist uses an energy practice to create the magic of the moment and help women immerse themselves in scents and discover their meanings. Olga Zorikova does nothing else and earns money nowhere else.
Her husband, Rostislav Zorikov, also looks at first glance like a perfectly ordinary guy — he is now 37 years old. He studied at a printing college and then at the Moscow Aviation Institute. He is no businessman or oligarch, don’t get the wrong idea.
If we did not know from the previous investigation how they steal from the defense sector, we might say that Zorikov lives modestly: in Russia he has only one company, and it supplies printing equipment. The company has almost no money; it earns nothing.
For example, here is a leak from the tax authorities for 2020. For the entire year, Zorikov officially earned 447,000 rubles — 37,000 a month.
Which makes his hobby all the more astonishing. There is simply no plausible explanation for it. Rostislav Zorikov is passionate about collecting very expensive cars.
In that same year, 2020, when he earned 447,000 rubles in total, he owned: a Jaguar F-PACE
a Lamborghini Aventador
a Rolls-Royce Phantom
and even an armored vehicle based on a Toyota.
He also somehow had enough money to buy a Packard
a Mercedes S-Class
and a Tigr armored vehicle.
The total value of these cars is 77 million rubles. And in that same year, his wife — not even the owner, just an employee of an event agency — bought a Bentley Bentayga, a Porsche 911 Carrera, and a Hummer. That is another 26 million.
And that is only a small part of their cars. When we discovered this fleet, we thought it had to be some kind of mistake, a database glitch. Or maybe they owned a dealership and were moving cars for resale. No. This is a family hobby. It is easy to confirm if you look up Rostislav Zorikov on car enthusiast forums.
Here he is musing that he had planned to buy a Ferrari, but accidentally bought a BMW i8 and a Porsche Panamera instead. What an awkward mishap.
He posts photos of his Rolls-Royce.
Here he is in Minsk in a Lamborghini, with children running after him. And here he is driving around somewhere in the Alps in a Lamborghini with Moscow plates.
“I just accidentally bought myself a Rolls-Royce,” writes Rostislav on a forum — the son-in-law of Obnosov, the missile maker already caught in corruption. It happens to everyone, Rostislav. Our deepest sympathies.
Here he is showing off that very Packard.
Several times he complains that he has accumulated too many cars, they no longer fit anywhere, and he has to sell some.
Rostislav, who earns 37,000 rubles a month, has a habit of buying a new car for each season. You have winter shoes and summer shoes, right? For him, it is the same idea, only with sports cars. Every summer, it is either a brand-new BMW Z4 convertible:
or one summer Porsche, then another:
And if he likes a particular brand, he simply buys up the entire model range.
And while studying this endlessly long list of Zorikov’s cars, we found an interesting specimen — yet another Rolls-Royce, this time a Ghost, which he insured in Moscow, but the car itself has foreign plates: Czech ones. So this car is not based in Russia permanently; it is for Europe.
So let’s look for where they might be keeping it.
We do not know whether you follow Medvedev’s Telegram channel — the chief hawk of nuclear apocalypse. If not, here is the gist: he regularly talks about destroying the entire world with missiles. Ukraine — with missiles. Those who support Ukraine — also with missiles. Europe — with missiles. Everyone gets destroyed. And it is the same story on television: they practically drool while discussing missile flight times to various European cities. Paris is 200 seconds away, Berlin 106. And this place in western Prague is about 90 seconds away.
How upsetting and unfortunate it would probably be for the creator of those missiles if one of them were to land here — in the elite Panorama residential complex in Prague. Because this is exactly where we found yet another piece of property belonging to the family of missile maker Obnosov.
This time it is a 140-square-meter penthouse with a stunning view over green open spaces, while still being quite close to central Prague. We can take a close look at where and how our protagonists have settled in.
Here is the apartment that, according to the documents, belongs to Rostislav Zorikov.
And if the name on the doorbell is to be believed, his wife Olga, the daughter of missile maker Obnosov, lives here as well.
In addition to the 140 square meters of interior space, there is a terrace of the same size. According to the floor plan, the apartment has three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a 50-square-meter kitchen-living room, and the terrace is designed to include sun loungers, a dining table, and a sauna with a jacuzzi.
An apartment like this costs 25.7 million Czech koruna, or 95 million rubles (1.095 million euros). The building was completed in 2017, so they settled here only quite recently. They were not afraid to move into an unfriendly country — brave souls.
In the same building, there is also an apartment registered to Zorikov’s father, Andrei. It measures 71 square meters and is worth nearly 23 million rubles.
But that is not all. The Zorikovs also own six parking spaces in the underground garage here. Why so many, you might ask? But knowing this family’s passion for sports cars, it is clear that even six is not enough for them. Especially since Rostislav has already started re-registering some of his cars from Russia to the Czech Republic.
The Zorikov family has clearly taken quite a liking to this neighborhood. Not far away, Rostislav owns another apartment with a parking space.
We even have the purchase agreement for the garage, complete with stamp and signature.
And 200 meters away, there is also an apartment belonging to Rostislav’s younger brother, Daniil Zorikov. How convenient — everyone is set up with Czech residency addresses.
Their logic is perfectly clear, and very convenient: you steal quietly from defense contracts in Russia. Your father — and father-in-law — makes missiles that kill thousands of civilians, while you collect cars, organize parties, run photo shoots and personal-growth workshops. And if anything happens — off you go to Prague. Everything is already bought, everything is ready, and the door says: respectable Mr. and Mrs. Zorikov live here.
Why do the Czechs, the Czech government, and the EU authorities responsible for sanctions allow them in and let them live here? The head of this family is a real war criminal; Tactical Missiles Corporation is under sanctions; they are participants in the war in Ukraine. And you cannot even say that children should not answer for their parents when the children got rich off contracts with that very same KTRV. The children themselves took part in looting the assets of a state defense corporation.
We will, of course, immediately send complaints to all the relevant Czech authorities, as well as the police and the Foreign Ministry, demanding sanctions against the Zorikovs, a thorough investigation into the origin of the money used to buy all this, and we hope they will never be allowed into the Czech Republic again.
You surely know someone who sincerely supports the war. Maybe someone who is even fighting in it — mobilized or serving under contract. All of us have an acquaintance or relative who is convinced that yes, there is corruption in the country, yes, people steal, but Putin still rebuilt the defense industry! Putin is making our country strong, truly protecting it from Western plots. Show them this investigation.
Ask them what they think about this: while Russians are being sent to the slaughter, while ordinary people are crowd-funding warm clothes for mobilized soldiers, the family of the country’s chief missile maker — a Hero of Russia, for God’s sake — is buying sports cars by the dozen. Officially earning nothing, they buy themselves million-euro penthouses in Prague. They travel there, live there, keep their money in an enemy NATO country. Ask them whether they think Putin does not know. They cannot possibly say this is normal, can they? Write in the comments what they tell you.
Perhaps you even know people who work directly at Tactical Missiles Corporation. They have facilities in Korolyov, Dubna, Ryazan, Taganrog, and Smolensk. Show them this video and ask how much they earn — 40,000? 50,000 rubles? If they are lucky. Meanwhile, their director’s daughter buys herself Porsches and Hummers in between aromatherapy sessions.
We are not even mentioning the apartments in Moscow anymore. In our country, every so-called patriot and defense executive seems to be a billionaire. The Zorikovs are no different: two apartments in this beautiful residential complex in central Moscow — 187 and 112 square meters — worth 300 million rubles. Where did you get 300 million? In this case, we know exactly where: from missile-industry contracts.
You can go on forever on television talking about nuclear ash, posting on Telegram about missile flight times, and threatening people with Zircons and Iskanders. Putin and his officials call that patriotism. They tell us that dying in a meaningless war of aggression, rotting in a field somewhere near Bakhmut, is patriotism; that making and launching missiles at apartment buildings, at children, is patriotism. But none of that is true.
Patriotism means not stealing from your own country. Patriotism means high salaries for teachers and doctors, and decent pensions. Patriotism means that every life matters and has great value, and that people cannot be sent into a military meat grinder. And saying that your country has been taken over by thieves and war criminals — that is patriotism too. Do not stay silent.
Freedom for Alexei Navalny.