Luxury real estate. A mistress. A yacht. The standard kit of a United Russia politician, trying in public to look like a modest, selfless man and a devoted family man. It is hardly surprising that Sergey Lavrov, who is heading the United Russia party list in this election, has all of it too. We found that Sergey Lavrov’s entire family is, quite literally, being supported by an oligarch. For that, the foreign minister should not only be removed from the election, but jailed as well. This is outright corruption. But we know that in Putin’s Russia, corruption is only encouraged, which is why Lavrov is proudly leading United Russia in this election — the party of crooks and thieves. In their new investigation, Maria Pevchikh @maria_pevchikh and Georgy Alburov @alburov explain how the head of Russia’s Foreign Ministry really lives.

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