While the whole world is studying photographs of the hydrogen atom and taking pride in scientists’ achievements, we are studying photographs of Russian Railways chief Yakunin’s dacha. And we’re even a little proud too: just look how much ours steal! Wow! So, here is the current status of our investigation into Yakunin’s dacha. 1. The property shown in the photographs definitely belongs to Russian Railways chief Vladimir Yakunin. This document has been circulating since yesterday. I didn’t post it until its authenticity had been confirmed.
That’s right. The land plot belonged directly to Yakunin at the time when this epic construction project was underway. Limestone was brought in from Germany, granite from Kazakhstan, and all sorts of other things besides. After the asset declaration push began in 2011, Yakunin transferred the dacha into someone else’s name, but he continues to use it. This information has been confirmed by multiple sources and is completely reliable. 2. Facts about Yakunin’s dacha are being scrubbed from the internet at astonishing speed. That astonishing speed is matched only by astonishing stupidity, because we all remember the "Streisand effect". Retired FSB colonels working in Russian Railways security apparently do not know about it, and are being very helpful to us in this regard: (a) The deleted post from Yaplakal (the site later said it had been removed at the request of Roskomnadzor, Russia’s media regulator) has been reposted in many places and, in particular, here. (b) The video of the pond being built for Yakunin (incidentally, below there is testimony that the ponds were dug by Metrostroy) has been taken down, but it is available here. (c) A man went on air on Russian News Service who had worked at Yakunin’s dacha, but our brave Sergei Leonidovich Dorenko, who only recently had practically declared war on Yakunin, deleted the link (Google cache). However, the text survives here, for example. I reproduce it in full: *On a live broadcast of Russian News Service, builder Alexei described one of the elite residential properties outside Moscow which, bloggers claim, is in fact the dacha of Russian Railways chief Vladimir Yakunin. According to him, the dacha near Domodedovo, on the Akulinino estate, belongs personally to Vladimir Yakunin and his son, and he saw the head of Russian Railways there on multiple occasions. “I worked there. I built that bathhouse myself. I can confirm everything. I saw Yakunin there; I could tell you a lot. I worked there about three years ago. It’s Akulinino. The whole place is fenced off; entry is by pass only. There were 300 Vietnamese workers there, and they killed all the fish with electric rods. The exterior finish is Italian marble. The bathhouse has three sections, each 14 by 14 meters, with Italian furniture, a marble bar counter, a fireplace, stained-glass windows. It’s made of glass, there aren’t really any walls as such, there are changing rooms, showers, everything is very expensive. There is a 50-meter swimming pool in the house. There is a fur storage room and a refrigerator. The small house belongs to the son, it’s the guest house, and the main one is his. There is a prayer room and a chapel. Apparently Metrostroy dug the ponds there for 150 million rubles. It’s decorated with golden tiles, and the space is huge — a hammam, bathhouse, steam room, panoramic views so you can look out over the forest,” he said. Earlier, photographs allegedly showing the dacha of Russian Railways chief Vladimir Yakunin appeared online. The dacha occupies 70 hectares near Domodedovo. According to the author of the original post, he worked on the “smart home” system there. They “dug their own lakes, built a ‘small’ garage for 15 cars, a separate bay for a Maybach, and constructed one and a half kilometers of underground passages from the main house to the garage.” On the estate there is a two-story house for staff, a 50-meter swimming pool, and “a modest little bathhouse, 1,400 square meters in size”*. 3. Now to the most interesting part. On Sunday, a small expedition organized by the People’s Alliance party visited the vacation spots of the head of Russian Railways. Many thanks to the “Alliance” for that. Here you can view a detailed photo report.
Let me note briefly that our merry state railway man did not just tack a huge amount of other people’s land onto his own 700 sotkas (7 hectares). He also blocked off a river with the very telling name of “Zlodeika” (“Villainess”).
Around the entire perimeter, our modest railway official has a fence equipped with motion sensors. In short, take a look — it’s interesting. In the near future, the “People’s Alliance” will organize a new expedition, this time equipped with GPS trackers, in order to determine to within a single meter how much land the insatiable railway boss Yakunin has illegally grabbed. Anyone wishing to take part can sign up with Georgy Alburov (email: g@alburov.ru) I will keep you informed about our further findings, but for now I simply want to notify everyone that we are making a clear, legally grounded demand of acting governor of the Moscow Region Monsieur Vorobyov: hold Mr. Yakunin and his unidentified accomplices accountable for illegal land seizure and for blocking the river.
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A formal letter will be sent shortly.
Let Vorobyov show all of us — and the residents of the Moscow Region in particular — how he intends to deal with his colleague in the United Russia party criminal group.
There is a sea of violations there, and blocking off the river is completely beyond the pale.
We await this eagerly.