The Golden Palace of Your Favorite Doctor

Look, this is what real luxury looks like.

A huge house with columns, and a well-kept

property with neatly trimmed

lawns and trees. There are some statues

standing around as decoration. Take a closer look.

What a pompous entrance—very monumental.

Everything is built on a grand scale, but the most interesting part, of course,

is inside. You walk in and—wow—gold, gold,

gold everywhere. Little Black

boys holding lamps greet us right in the

foyer. A huge chandelier, carved panels,

marble, stucco.

And from above, look how magnificent it all

looks. Where even is this—some ancestral

seat of some lord, or

maybe the palace of an Arab

prince? And now I’m showing you the main hall.

Two-story-high ceilings, marble columns, and

everything is gold: the chandelier, the furniture, the mirrors,

the cornices, the curtains.

You want to cry out, “I can’t look at any more gold,”

but I will be merciless. We

will proceed to the dining room, and there we will literally

suffocate from the luxurious interior.

More mirrors, more crystal chandeliers, and

more columns. Ten velvet chairs

like thrones are arranged around a gleaming

oak table. You can close your eyes and

imagine a formal dinner being hosted here,

with bustling servants bringing in dish after dish,

while an attentive butler makes sure the guests

never run out of... But the house I’m

showing you is enormous—1,100 square meters

(about 11,840 square feet), twenty-one rooms.

There’s still a lot more for us to see, but

it’s already impossible not to wonder: whose is this? Who

is the owner? Who works in such a luxurious

study and thinks about Russia?

Looking at the marble fireplace framed

by golden lions—is it a president, a governor, or

a minister? Who strolls through this

grand green hall and admires

the sky painted on the ceiling panels?

Maybe the Queen of England? Looking at

the bedroom and the abundance of gold in it, you might

think that we’ve found the secret

country estate outside Moscow

of Donald Trump. He would fit easily into

this interior. And from the bedroom we go

straight into the bathroom, done

in the style of Roman baths—and again, stucco,

marble, gold. So who bathes in this

wonderful round jacuzzi? Who

preens in a bathroom like this,

or this one, or this one? Who bought this

marvelous table in the style of Louis

XIV—or perhaps of a Moscow-region

gangster

from the 1990s? Who has two kitchens at home—one for themselves and

one for the staff? Who watches movies in

their own private movie theater?

Who has, on a plot of almost a hectare (about 2.5 acres),

an outdoor pool and an elephant-shaped shrub? Who is this

rich person, this lord of luxury?

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I didn’t believe it at first either, but yes, this is

the estate where almost everything that

can be gilded has been, bought personally by the country’s chief

TV doctor,

a trusted ally of Sobyanin (Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin), a Putin supporter,

and the longtime host of Channel One (Russia’s main state TV channel),

who has been “treating” us from our TV screens for 23 years.

Where do these idiots come from? Before I

get to the most interesting part, promise

me one thing, please: keep watching this video

and think about the fact that right now, during

the epidemic, quarantine, and isolation, you will not

receive a single kopek from the state

in aid.

But our heroine receives, steadily

and nonstop, budget money

taken from your pocket. So

when you finish watching, follow the link in

the video description and sign our

demand that right now

every adult citizen of Russia be paid

20,000 rubles (about $270 at the time) and 10,000 rubles

for each child. The country’s reserve funds

should work for everyone, not just for

Elena Malysheva.

And here’s the kicker: the most interesting thing is

where this glittering golden pa...

black. Let’s take another look at it

once again—at the house, the pool, the garden covering

almost a hectare. Where could such beauty be?

Usually in cases like this I say:

we are in the most elite part

of Rublyovka (the upscale area west of Moscow), but so far it’s really not very

clear where we are. Let’s pull back to the side

to get our bearings. A river...

probably the Volga?

But no, guys, this is not the Volga, because on

the opposite bank we discover Manhattan.

And to make absolutely sure this is not

Nizhny Novgorod but New York, let’s fly

right between the skyscrapers and admire

the recognizable cityscape. And while we’re

flying, let’s state the fact: Elena

Malysheva’s estate is located not outside Moscow

but outside New York, 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) from

Manhattan, on the border of the neighboring state of

New Jersey, right on the bank of the Hudson River.

“You know, I’ve just come back from

America. I was astonished.”

She bought it in 2016 for 6.5

million dollars—430

million rubles at the exchange rate at the time.

And it was the most expensive house sold in

that area in 2016. How could the host of a

rather strange TV show have that kind of

money? Like you, I’d really like to know too,

but this must surely be some kind of mistake—

a namesake, someone with the same surname, anything. It can’t be.

How could that be? Look at the documents for

the house purchase—they are available in New Jersey’s public registry.

From them, we learn that

the house is registered to the spouses Elena and Igor

Malyshev—the husband of our Elena Malysheva.

Exactly. We can also see the owner’s signature.

It’s not hard to find online the autograph of

TV host Elena Malysheva.

We compare them and cast aside the last

remaining doubts: this American house belongs to Elena

Malysheva. I have many more

interesting details for you, but let me explain right away

what the problem is, and why suddenly

the heroine of the FBK (Anti-Corruption Foundation) investigation turned out to be such an

unusual figure. You’ll notice the problem

immediately if you watch Channel One

for one or two days. You don’t need to

do that on purpose—I’m really asking you not to—

but still, you should keep in mind:

television is watched by most of our

fellow citizens, and by almost all elderly people. So

if you watch Channel One, you’ll

discover that Elena Malysheva simply never

leaves the TV screen.

She is the country’s main spokesperson on the subject of the corona-

virus, the main source of information.

Every day her program *Live Healthy!* airs,

and every week

she hosts another health show. She

appears to talk about the coronavirus on

the news,

morning and evening. She talks about the

virus on one talk show, and then on another very

popular talk show. She even made it

onto *Evening Urgant* (a popular Russian late-night show), where she also

told Russians everything about the corona-

virus. A true national favorite, such a

nice woman—a doctor, a specialist, and

the leading medical authority on

television. Now let’s look at what she

says. We studied her appearances on

Channel One over the last couple of months

and were horrified.

Elena Malysheva, the beloved people’s

doctor,

has been conducting a consistent, deliberate

campaign to downplay the danger

of the coronavirus. “There are reasons

for optimism.” This is not a single phrase torn

out of context. These are dozens of programs where

she appears and says that

there is no danger,

that everything is not so bad after all.

By all outward signs, it looks like

much milder than far more severe infections, that

only the elderly are dying, that it’s a miracle of miracles,

children are not dying, they are not ending up in

intensive care—there are people there aged 20,

70, 80, 90. Ask any doctor—that’s

exactly how it is. That the virus is only in China, that

a disease from which, in just a couple of months,

more than two hundred thousand people have already died is

just an ordinary seasonal infection, and the hype

is connected with something else.

Well, probably with some kind of global conspiracy. The corona-

virus, in the end, will turn out to be an ordinary

seasonal infection. All the hype right now is largely

connected not with the fact that this is some kind of

super-deadly infection, some kind of

super-plague, or something terrible.

She is lying outright. She is saying anti-scientific

things.

She glosses over the situation, conceals

the real statistics, and of course

praises the authorities for their unique

quarantine measures.

In our country, the situation, I’m telling you,

right now,

is, honestly and sincerely, calm and

under control thanks to the fact that

very early on,

quarantine measures were adopted. I remind you, we officially do not have a quarantine.

Elena Malysheva

occupies an exceptional position: 23

years of daily nationwide broadcasting on

the main federal channel have given her enormous

authority and trust—trust, by the way,

especially among the older generation, those who

today are in the highest-risk

group. And what do they hear from their beloved doctor?

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What the hell is this?

They told me: we defeated the fascists.

And if Dr. Malysheva hasn’t reached you

through your TV screen, she will find

you on the internet. On Instagram, she has more than

a million followers, to whom she

explains that the coronavirus is a miracle,

a miracle of miracles.

Let’s listen to this harmful woman.

Every time—I’ll explain. I now believe that

this virus is a miracle of miracles.

Elena Malysheva has done more for

the spread of the coronavirus in Russia

than anyone else.

If it seems to you that this was some kind of

accidental slip or a doctor’s mistake, you are

badly mistaken.

Malysheva is an ordinary propagandist, like

Kiselyov or Solovyov (well-known Russian state TV hosts), just in a different

format—from medicine. Only at first

glance does she seem like the host of

an entertainment show with giant

dancing human organs.

In reality, she is a consistent,

cold-blooded propagandist of the harmful

agenda of Putin, Sobyanin, and United Russia.

Malysheva is a member of the central штаб (headquarters) of the

All-Russia People’s Front.

And look at what she says about

the retirement age: “Today, when at 55

a woman retires, it is absolutely

obvious that for another

30–40 years she will live without working, and

something has to be done about that. From my point

of view, two things need to be done. First,

the retirement age must immediately be raised

to 67.”

because that’s how it’s done in all

civilized countries. Brilliant idea: raise

the retirement age to 67. People live another 30–40

years after retirement, and maybe that’s true

in New Jersey, where people do live 30–40 years

after retirement. But in Russia

half of all men don’t even make it to

retirement age. Elena Malysheva

— Sobyanin’s (Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin’s) official campaign surrogate in the election — she

simply adores Sergei Semyonovich.

See for yourselves.

I love him, Sergei Semyonovich, Sergei Semyon...

No, they’ll cut this out. We’ve really come to this,

I love him — what a handsome man, really.

A marvel. And Moscow,

of course, thanks to Sobyanin, Moscow

has become the best place on earth. Seriously.

Moscow today tops the list of the world’s best

places, and of course it is the most

progressive city in our country. Except that

the house worth half a billion rubles

that Dr. Malysheva bought is in the best place

in the world — in New Jersey. And, following the usual

tradition of state propagandists,

when police, on Sobyanin’s orders, won’t let you

into the metro or drag you off to the

police station because you went to the store

to buy bread, how do the authorities explain it? The people

are to blame. They don’t understand anything. They

go out for shashlik (barbecue), they don’t stay in

quarantine.

For a month and a half, every single day, you

used the country’s biggest TV channel to

hammer into these people’s heads, day after day,

that

the virus isn’t dangerous, it’s nonsense, it’s no

more dangerous than a fungus. Malysheva first

convinced everyone around her that there was nothing

to worry about, and then she supports the authorities,

who are now

fining and jailing those who say there’s

nothing to worry about. And she keeps

getting paid, collecting her salary.

But no, her beloved Putin and Sobyanin won’t

give you a single kopek — the budget would burst.

All right, back to America. We haven’t yet

finished our investigation there.

We established that the house belongs to Elena

Malysheva and her husband, also a doctor,

Igor Malyshev. But who is living there now?

While Malysheva is in Moscow insisting that

the coronavirus isn’t dangerous, who is spending days

and nights amid the golden decor, with columns and

who dines in these pompous

halls and rests in golden bedrooms?

The answer is in this video.

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He lives in the house — Elena Malysheva’s son.

Yuri. He’s also a young doctor, working at a

New York hospital. His craving for fame

seems to have been inherited, and he

even appears from time to time on

Malysheva’s Channel One show.

Guys, stay alert — she could be

playing games.

When the terrible truth comes out:

pimples — do we really need girls with

pimples like that?

Besides that, he also records

his own videos in English on

Instagram, and in both subject matter and style

they strongly resemble his mother’s.

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And in these videos, we can

spot interior details that are familiar to us.

Interior details.

This video was recorded here, in the kitchen. Here’s

another one, in one of the modest bathrooms. Quickly,

let’s address an important question: maybe he

bought the house with his own money? He’s an adult, after all.

Definitely not. Mommy bought the house for him.

First, that’s clear from the documents. Second,

Yuri Malyshev is 32 years old.

He only recently finished his residency at

one of the hospitals, and he’s still a very

young doctor. There’s no way he has $6.5 million

— not in cash, not through

a mortgage, no way at all. You know, people write here:

“In Germany salaries are 200,000, while ours are 25.” You

only think that, comrades. Right now we’re

studying in America — if you say what the salary

is, how much they pay in dollars, then

it seems heavenly. But if you know

how much they pay there for apartments, for

insurance, then converted into Russian

money, at best you’re left with 40,000

to 60,000 rubles ($430–$650) — at best, and sometimes

even less. That’s why it only seems to you that

the grass is greener where we aren’t. People live hard everywhere.

But that’s not all. Take a look

at this video from his Instagram. Here

he talks about what Bernie Sanders is actually suffering from.

Behind Yuri, it’s hard not to

notice the

cityscape. This video was shot here, in

this building on Park Avenue, Midtown,

a few blocks from Grand Central

Terminal and the Empire State Building. Specifically,

Yuri is standing in this very apartment.

You can compare the view yourselves. This apartment

was bought by the Malyshevs in October 2014

for $2 million, and it is registered in

a legal entity registered at

the primary address of the Malyshev family in

New Jersey. And in the documents we find

the signature of Vasily Malyshev. He is the younger

brother of Yuri. But don’t think, dear viewer,

that the brothers are sharing one New York

apartment and squeezing into it together. No,

Putin supporters cannot stoop that low.

In the same building, they have another

apartment exactly like it, but on

a different floor, bought on the same day as the first one and

registered in the same way. So, two apartments in

the center of New York, 110 square meters each

with a total value of $4.2 million.

Not in the best place on earth—Moscow, unfortunately—but

this will do too.

At the time the apartments were purchased, the Malyshev brothers

were 26 and 23 years old. Obviously,

they could not possibly have had $4 million of their own,

so this was a gift from their mother. In total,

nearly $11 million—Elena

Malysheva spent on her American

real estate.

Where did that kind of money come from? We honestly tried

to figure it out. It definitely wasn’t Malysheva’s husband.

He is a scientist, a professor at Moscow State University of Medicine and

Dentistry.

And people often write about Elena Malysheva herself

that she owns an entire business empire, and

that is partly true. She really does have

her own line of diet food

and a chain of clinics

bearing her own name, which, incidentally, she

shamelessly advertises

on her programs on Channel One (Russia’s main state TV channel).

But neither of those brings in anything

comparable to the sums spent on

houses and apartments in New York. We can see that

from the financial statements as well.

And Malysheva herself says that her

main income

is her salary from Channel One.

The main source of income, of course—not even income, really, but

on television, after all, I receive

a salary as a host and so on. Of course,

that is the main thing.

So you’re saying that out of all these businesses,

you earn the most from Channel One? Of course, what

I receive there as a salary, as a star, is

And on the completely loss-making Channel One,

which you and I support with our

taxes—we support the channel, and we support

Malysheva’s program specifically, which

receives subsidies from the budget as

socially significant. It was we who paid for

Elena Malysheva’s luxurious American

retirement, with an American pension and healthcare

system, where, we have no doubt,

she will live another 30 or 40 years after retirement.

And how has Elena Malysheva

repaid us? With sabotage, criminal

disinformation, lies, and of course

endless bootlicking of the authorities. Why

should all the money of our rich country

go to people like the Malyshevs?

Right now, doctors and nurses are working

12-hour shifts and cannot even go to

the bathroom; they have to fight tooth and nail

to get

the salary bonuses Putin promised.

They were promised them,

but they are not being paid. In March 2020,

we were transferred

to Hospital No. 40 at VDNKh (a major exhibition complex in Moscow), to Kommunarka.

I worked and honestly fulfilled my

duties. I want us finally to be heard

and to be paid all the money

that Vladimir Vladimirovich

Putin promised

to those who work precisely in these

conditions. And when we asked about this, our

managers told us:

‘Putin promised it to you, so let Putin

pay it to you personally.’ Meanwhile, tens of

millions

of ordinary people who have now lost

their incomes are being told to stay home, but no one

explains what money they are supposed

to live on. Russia’s reserve funds now contain

almost 18 trillion rubles. That is our

shared money. We demand that part of this

money be given directly to people—at least

20,000 rubles each. We need to unite the whole

country and collect millions of signatures under

these demands.

Sign it, otherwise your share of the reserves will go

to New Jersey, to a great supporter of

Vladimir Putin.