As you probably remember, we organized a punitive expedition to Yakunin’s dacha to document the illegal seizure of a huge plot of land by this modest patriot, for the purpose of landscaping the area around his fur-coat storage facility.
At the time, we documented it conclusively (using GPS trackers) and established that all these wonderful fences with surveillance cameras, patrolled by guards with German shepherds and Schmeisser submachine guns, had been installed illegally.
Here is what it looks like. The yellow outline marks the boundary of the plot owned by Yakunin through his offshore company Mirolo. The red line is the fence. In other words, a large section of forest was illegally seized, and accordingly, the artificial ponds dug for Yakunin by metro construction workers after damming the Zlodeika River are unauthorized construction. We filed complaints about the land grab, and we were absolutely right:
Thus: 1. Rosreestr (Russia’s state real estate registry) acknowledged Yakunin’s illegal seizure of 2.7 hectares (6.7 acres) of land. 2. It fined him 20,000 rubles (about $200 at the time). 3. It ordered him to remedy the violations by November 11, which in practice means demolishing the illegal fence and all the buildings. Excellent. Once again, thanks to everyone who took part in the expedition (incidentally, today is the birthday of the expedition’s organizer, Furious George—happy birthday to him). As a bonus, here are photos of the dacha of the modest state official Yakunin, taken by the volunteer air squadron of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (a shout-out to our glorious pilots, and thank you for your help):
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(full size, with all details) The main house (with a sauna, swimming pool, and the legendary fur-coat storage room) is on the left; at the top is the guest house; on the right is the servants’ quarters. The long building on the right is most likely garages and utility buildings. Apparently that is also the courtyard where Yakunin flogs the servant girls caught showing insufficient patriotism and taking poor notes on his book “The Trap: New Technologies for Combating Russian Statehood.” As for the topmost building (slightly to the left), we don’t know what it is. Possibly a kennel, where those same girls breastfeed the master’s greyhound puppies. Or a serf theater. Or a museum of Saltychikha (an infamous 18th-century Russian noblewoman known for cruelty to her serfs). Or else some other standard structure necessary for a man running a major state-owned company.
P.S. Just in case, let me remind you: http://yakunin.fbk.info/