Why does the State Duma exist? Who is a deputy?
Formally speaking, a deputy is a representative of the people’s interests. A person elected by the public who is paid to defend those people’s interests, improve their lives, and write laws that will help ordinary Russians.
For this, he receives a salary—an enormous one, by the way, around half a million rubles a month; he is given an official apartment, an official car, a driver, parliamentary immunity, a parliamentary pension, and a host of other privileges unavailable to ordinary people—all so that he has as much time and as many opportunities as possible to help, to serve you, his voters. It sounds ridiculous, but formally that’s how it is.
But in reality, everything is completely different. The State Duma was deliberately broken by Putin a long time ago; it has lost all its functions, and not a single person there was truly elected in any real sense. If a giant meteor hit the State Duma building tomorrow, our lives would not be any worse for it. It’s just 450 idlers and parasites sitting there.
Very rich parasites, utterly unprincipled ones, who use your tax money to do harm. They stop us from living normally, while helping Putin do the opposite.
Need to raise the retirement age? Sure, we’ll vote for it. Raise VAT? We’ll all press our buttons together right now, no problem. They carry out Putin’s most insane and repressive ideas—all those foreign agent laws, protest bans, fines.
Our button-pushers rewrote the Constitution too without batting an eye—Putin asked them to. They passed the law, and then the decorated cosmonaut-turned-deputy Tereshkova helpfully suggested: why don’t we reset Putin’s term limits?
Let’s make it so that even though Putin has already been in power for 20 years, he can still be elected two more times—for another 12 years. Thanks to this, next March Putin will formally be running for his first term.
Since the war began, our freeloaders on Okhotny Ryad (the street where the State Duma is located in Moscow) have been working every day to send as many Russians as possible to their deaths. They raised the conscription age to 30.
They introduced electronic draft notices that are impossible to hide from or escape. They voted for prison terms of 10 years for surrendering and 15 years for desertion. And to make sure no one under any circumstances learns the truth about the war, the deputies introduced 15-year prison sentences simply for mentioning the war. And people really are being jailed under these laws.
And there is one more important role the deputies have taken on: propaganda. They loudly and furiously support the war and Putin on social media, appear on talk shows, and generally pretend to be the country’s leading patriots, setting an example for everyone else.
Here is deputy Milonov in a trench in Horlivka this October: “If I’m taken prisoner, I know perfectly well what they’ll do to me.”
Now that’s a hero. Milonov signed a contract and basically said: you should sign one too.
But is Milonov actually fighting? Of course not. A leaked air travel database shows that in 2023 Milonov managed to fly from Moscow to St. Petersburg about 10 times and made several trips to Sochi as well.
He certainly took plenty of heroic photos, but in reality he was anywhere but the front.
And here is another United Russia deputy, Oleg Golikov from Chelyabinsk Region. United Russia leader Andrei Turchak said that Golikov is “a real man, fighting shoulder to shoulder with contract soldiers and mobilized troops.”
Golikov was supposedly at the front from October 2022 to April 2023, but during that time he flew to Sochi a suspiciously large number of times.
On November 4, he congratulates his readers on National Unity Day:
And at that very moment, he is flying out of Sochi:
Ten days later, on November 14, he posts a photo with artillery shells, while his flight records place him in Sochi.
On November 23, he is in Sochi again.
This year, on March 17, a month before the end of his so-called service, he posts a slide from a presentation titled “Firearms Training”: “At present, a full-scale hybrid war is being waged against Russia. The confrontation with the West will stretch on for many years.”
That day, believe it or not, he was also in Sochi. But he never forgets the hashtags—#Volunteer #Patriot #Russia.
You probably know someone who was mobilized. Are your mobilized men fighting from Sochi too?
And Adam Delimkhanov, Kadyrov’s close ally who supposedly never leaves the front, somehow also manages to fly regularly between Moscow and Grozny.
Dmitry Sablin, the commander of the so-called “Duma” unit, as journalists recently discovered, was actually posting his patriotic messages from Turkey—where he was vacationing with his family. It seems we’re being lied to!
Of course, all of this is hypocrisy and lies. In their so-called Duma units, they’re just playing dress-up: they put on camouflage and uniforms, spend a day in some trench, hold a weapon for the cameras, and make sure a film crew is there. That part is essential!
They absolutely need as many photos and videos as possible so everyone sees it. They need as many interviews, statements, and loud declarations of support for the mobilized as possible so everyone hears it.
Why do they do it? It’s simple: to create an illusion, to throw dust in people’s eyes—as if to say, look, we’ve all united, we’re fighting personally too. And you should as well. Go off to war, send your husbands and sons—they should follow the deputies’ example.
Except they won’t be going for one day to take pictures. They’ll be going for good.
And now let’s move on to what these deputies are actually busy with. We managed to find not some stage prop, but a real, active, and for once effective deputy battalion. Not two or three costumed deputies in khaki, but 13 whole people! Thirteen deputies who banded together and, like migratory birds, flocked off to Dubai.
Before we get to the most interesting part, let’s make a deal: you will send this post or our video to people whose relatives and loved ones were mobilized. To those whom these very deputies literally sent to slaughter like cattle, compensating them with five kilograms of fish, firewood, or circus tickets. They absolutely need to know about this.
There is a United Russia deputy named Vladislav Reznik. He has been a deputy for 23 years and has been part of Putin’s inner circle since the 1990s.
Reznik has problems traveling to Europe because in 2016 Spain put him on an international wanted list on charges of involvement with the Tambov organized crime group and money laundering.
But there are places where he definitely won’t be arrested. In 2022, his wife Diana Gindin bought two 165-square-meter apartments stacked one above the other.
The apartments are in this residential complex in Dubai, and their total cost is 185 million rubles.
You can verify this as follows: on the Dubai Land Registry website, you can enter the owner’s name and the property certificate number, and it will return the result: property is valid—meaning the record exists.
But that was not enough, and in 2023 the deputy’s family bought a third apartment in the beautiful Palm Beach Towers high-rise with panoramic views.
A funny fact about deputies’ lies: before Spain put him on the international wanted list, deputy Reznik divorced his wife, in whose name many assets had been registered. But we can safely treat that divorce as a formality, because judging by their flight records, Reznik still happily goes on vacation with his wife.
And this is United Russia deputy Pavel Fedyaev:
He is the son of another United Russia member—Mikhail Fedyaev, owner of the notorious Listvyazhnaya mine in Kemerovo Region. In 2021, 51 people died there in an explosion. A criminal case was opened against the elder Fedyaev, and at the end of 2021 he was even placed in pretrial detention, but six months later he was miraculously released under travel restrictions.
So what if 51 people died—what a trivial matter. The important thing is that he didn’t write anything about the war or help the opposition, so someone like that can be set free.
We don’t know exactly what kind of travel restriction he was under or how long it lasted, but it certainly did not stop our deputy’s father from buying two neighboring apartments in Dubai in 2022, measuring 179 and 112 square meters, for a total of 361 million rubles.
The Fedyaev family evidently experiences its guilt over the miners’ deaths from this high-rise on the shore of the Persian Gulf, complete with its own yacht dock.
We would also like to introduce you to this imposing gentleman—United Russia member Saygidpasha Umakhanov.
On his Telegram channel, we found a video worthy of Hollywood: the deputy gives a refrigerator to the mother of a wounded mobilized soldier from Dagestan. The refrigerator is shown from every angle and carried into the house to pompous heroic music.
Then, of course, the poor woman thanks the entire deputy corps and thanks deputy Umakhanov. She wanted a refrigerator so badly, but had no money to buy one. On the floor are bags with the United Russia logo, apparently symbolizing abundance.
They are simply bastards—sorry for the language, but there are no other words. They looted the country, sit in their deputy seats in Moscow, started a war and mobilization, tore fathers and sons away from their families. And then, in front of cameras, instead of bringing sons back, they bring poor mothers a refrigerator and even make them thank the deputy corps for it.
But not all of deputy Umakhanov’s voters are worthy of a refrigerator. To the relatives of those killed in the war, the United Russia deputy gave a BLOOD PRESSURE MONITOR. Here is the video report: doctors and the deputy’s aide enter the home where the dead soldier’s relatives live. The text says they are doing this on Umakhanov’s instructions. Everyone has their blood pressure checked on the deputy’s orders, and then they are ceremoniously presented with a monitor.
Now that is generosity and care. But how we would love to send this family from Khasavyurt photos of the 185-square-meter apartment in this 40-story residential complex in Dubai along with that blood pressure monitor.
Deputy Umakhanov’s family bought this property several years ago—it is worth 63 million rubles on the market and is registered in his brother’s name. Pools, sunbathing areas, a spa, laundry facilities, and all the other standard features of Dubai residential complexes are, of course, included.
Anatoly Bifov, Communist Party. Let’s start with his quote: “Russia is the only country whose territory spans six parts of the world. You can choose a vacation spot to suit any taste. Come to Kabardino-Balkaria, to the North Caucasus. We have the best ski resorts, the best thermal springs, and the best health resorts. Come. Why go somewhere else for a vacation when there is so much beauty all around?”
The best health resorts may well be in Kabardino-Balkaria, but for some reason literally every member of the deputy’s family bought apartments in Dubai. In 2020, his brother Zaur Bifov bought an apartment in a skyscraper in the Burj Khalifa district.
In 2022, 30-year-old Anzor Bifov and 21-year-old Aliya Bifova moved to Dubai.
These are our deputy’s children. They bought an apartment each in the same building, this luxurious residential complex surrounded by water.
And this year the deputy’s nephew joined his Arab-based family as well: 30-year-old Zalim Bifov acquired a 101-square-meter apartment for 60 million rubles.
There is also a United Russia deputy named Alexander Sidyakin.
At one point he held spiritualist séances with Mahatma Gandhi, and now Sidyakin is one of the key figures in United Russia, heading the party’s Central Executive Committee.
We owe him the foreign agents law, gigantic fines for protests, and the Dadin article (the criminal statute used against repeat protest participants). He is a seasoned crook in general: 10 years ago (!) we did an investigation about him and described how he registered fake shell parties in the names of his aides.
In 2019, when we were registering our party “Russia of the Future,” Sidyakin’s aide promptly renamed one of his shell parties—what a coincidence—to “Russia of the Future,” and our registration was denied because the name was already taken.
While serving as head of the Bashkortostan governor’s administration, Sidyakin registered an elevator business in Bashkortostan in the name of his common-law wife and the mother of his children, Ksenia Shvyreva, and enriched himself through state contracts.
And now we have found a Dubai apartment in her name as well: she bought it in 2022 for 57 million rubles.
The 77-square-meter apartment is in a residential complex on the shore of a small artificial island. Across from the building are a promenade and a yacht marina. You could hardly find a better place from which to fight foreign agents.
Let’s move from Sidyakin’s relatively modest apartment to the champion apartment. This deputy is Grigory Anikeyev, a United Russia member and founder of the patriotic public organization “Mercy and Order.”
He has already bought Maltese citizenship for his son, and in 2022 he bought himself an apartment in Dubai.
Not just an apartment, in fact, but an entire presidential penthouse measuring 1,200 square meters, with a 557-square-meter terrace.
It is located on the famous Palm Jumeirah island. The website says the building is intended for people with impeccable taste and a deep understanding of a luxurious lifestyle.
This indulgence costs 2.135 billion rubles.
And what do you do if you want a penthouse—or, failing that, an entire floor—in a Dubai skyscraper, but none are available for sale?
Let’s see how United Russia deputy Alexander Prokopyev solved that problem. You’ll laugh: he too founded a foundation whose main tasks include promoting patriotism.
Prokopyev is a young deputy, 37 years old. His seat was secured by his mother—she is a billionaire and the founder of the Evalar company, and was a major sponsor of United Russia.
The issue of buying Dubai real estate was handled as a family matter too. Last year they bought not one or two but 12 apartments in Dubai. Eleven of them are located on the 63rd floor of the Paramount Tower skyscraper.
They are registered in the name of the deputy’s sister, Natalia.
The total area of the 11 apartments is 1,200 square meters, and the price is 700 million rubles. With the change, they picked up one more apartment in the luxurious under-construction Cavalli Casa Tower. It offers not only ready-made designer interiors but also remarkable terraces where, say, on the 60th floor, you can have your own glass pool on the balcony.
Next is another war-loving deputy—Boris Paykin. His charitable foundation purchased materials for 40 ladies who sew various covers for drones, warming belts, pillows, and also weave camouflage nets.
But there is something deputy Paykin failed to camouflage, and a warming belt would be out of place here. We mean this brand-new 100-square-meter apartment of Paykin’s in Dubai.
It is located on the 28th floor of a luxurious skyscraper in Dubai Marina and costs 88 million rubles. He bought it very recently, this year, and did not make much effort to hide it—he registered it directly in his own name. Apparently he decided that since deputies no longer have to publish their asset declarations, no one would find out about this apartment either. Alas, Paykin’s plan failed—we found his Dubai palace.
The brother of United Russia deputy Zelimkhan Mutsoyev—Amirkhan Mori—also became the owner of an apartment in Dubai in 2022.
It is located in a skyscraper nearly 400 meters tall, one of the tallest buildings in Dubai and the world. The building has three swimming pools, and the windows overlook the Burj Khalifa. The 84-square-meter apartment cost 74 million rubles.
Likewise, another United Russia deputy—Rakhim Azimov, a member of the Security and Anti-Corruption Committee and a member of the public council under the Investigative Committee—registered the Dubai apartment he bought this year in his brother’s name.
The apartment is in the Sensoria at Five Luxe residential complex, and here too, in addition to shared pools, residents get their own private ones on their balconies. Each apartment has 3.5-meter ceilings, panoramic windows, and access to a private beach.
Azimov, by the way, is also a great benefactor—he donated a plasma TV and a printer to a veterans’ organization. He could have taken them to Dubai instead.
Azimov’s colleague in United Russia and on the State Duma’s anti-corruption committee, Ruslan Gadzhiyev, also bought Dubai real estate this year, registering it in his sister’s name.
The apartment is enormous—177 square meters—located in the La Rive residential complex, next to the bay and a yacht marina, and it costs 188.5 million rubles.
U.S. authorities describe Gadzhiyev as the nephew of billionaire Suleiman Kerimov and the holder of part of his foreign assets.
Or take this patriotism champion—LDPR deputy Vladimir Koshelev.
He says it “pains” him to watch “the Russian city of Odesa,” as he puts it, “temporarily occupied by Ukrainian Nazis, turn into an empty place.”
Last May, Koshelev co-authored a bill—attention please—to ban foreign real estate ownership for deputies, senators, ministers, and judges. The justification was serious: “The aggression of the collective West and its satellites toward Russia, and the Russophobia they display in general, continue only to intensify.”
For some reason, the deputies did not even want to consider the bill and sent it back to its authors.
A pity! Deputy Koshelev could have torn up the paperwork for his 180-square-meter Dubai apartment worth 188 million rubles right there at the podium.
The apartment is in this luxurious glass skyscraper standing on the beach in the Dubai Marina area.
Since 2021, the property has been owned by the mother of his children and, at the same time, the director of his companies—Marina Karpyak.
To be honest, we knew nothing at all about this deputy, but during the investigation he won our hearts. He is a Communist Party deputy named Roman Lyabikhov, and just look at how red he is!
He is constantly decked out in party symbols—a cap, a sweatshirt, a jacket, all Communist Party branded. If he has to take off the cap indoors, he is still fully dressed for the occasion. If it gets really cold—no problem, there’s a red hood.
And of course, he is a model communist. He organizes subbotniks (voluntary community work days), celebrates the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, celebrates Pioneer Day, marks Teachers’ Day with Soviet posters, celebrates the party’s revival, and writes that housing and utilities are a bastion of collectivism.
So imagine our surprise when we found six apartments in Dubai belonging to his 26-year-old daughter! She bought one in 2020, three in 2021, and one each in 2022 and 2023.
All the apartments are between 58 and 100 square meters, with a combined value of around 300 million rubles.
Before taking up the hobby of buying Dubai real estate, the daughter of the great communist Lyabikhov had already managed to live in Switzerland—just like Lenin.
But the daughter’s six apartments are not all. A woman sharing the deputy’s wife’s name owns three more apartments, each about 70 square meters, and a 126-square-meter office space. That makes at least 10 real estate properties in Dubai worth a total of half a billion rubles.
Now there’s real patriotism for you—admire it. Soon deputy congresses and votes could be held on the beach at Palm Jumeirah, and committee meetings in the Burj Khalifa. And then these same deputies will calmly explain that the mobilized will not be coming back. Sorry, rotation is not предусмотрена—sorry, not provided for. They’ll stay there until the end of the “special military operation,” until all goals are achieved.
What goals, what plan? Nobody knows. They literally abducted 300,000 people and are simply waiting until every last one of them is killed. But afterward they’ll give you a blood pressure monitor!
Yes: a blood pressure monitor, a refrigerator, a camouflage net, and a United Russia goodie bag. That is what you are entitled to. Meanwhile, the deputies and their families will keep buying up luxury real estate in the United Arab Emirates floor by floor and keep lying.
Out of curiosity, before publishing this investigation, we called one of its protagonists—Anatoly Bifov. We asked: where did your brother, nephew, son, and daughter get apartments in Dubai? And he said they have nothing there, that he himself rarely goes there. And that his daughter has never been there at all.
But here is a photograph of his daughter Aliya Bifova. Where exactly was this taken, excuse me? In Syktyvkar, Krasnodar, or Nalchik?
And naturally, immediately after the call, Bifov’s daughter thoroughly covered her tracks and deleted all her photos from Dubai.
Please help spread this investigation and our video as widely as possible. Send the link to acquaintances, friends, people who may sincerely support the war and Putin. Ask them: how is it that the people sending Russians off to fight are themselves living like Arab sheikhs? Why does a grandmother in Khasavyurt get a refrigerator, while a deputy’s child gets a penthouse overlooking a yacht marina?
Freedom for Alexei Navalny!
We thank the rupep.org project for the database of deputies and their relatives that we used in this investigation.