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Look at this man. Listen.
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he is...
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Yes, we play the piano, but while you're at it...
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...he writes legislation, and writes only...
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...for our—writes for the good of our motherland.
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Democracy is like the flooding of the...
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Amur River.
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That very flood that put...
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...the lives of the people who live there at risk,
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spared neither their homes...
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...nor their property, their animals. Before you is...
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probably the key member of the Central...
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Election Commission, Boris so far
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away
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Boris Ebzeev, the brains of the CEC (Central Election Commission), if you will.
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And, by the way, a former judge...
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of the Constitutional Court.
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Seventeen years of service, former president...
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of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic.
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By the way, Arashukov was his official...
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assistant. One of the authors of the Constitution...
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of the Russian Federation.
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Author of several hundred academic works.
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Professor, Doctor of Law.
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I could go on listing his titles and...
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regalia for a long time. He is, forgive the grand words,
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a true pillar of Putin's regime.
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His job, whether in the CEC...
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or in the Constitutional Court, is simply, in essence,
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this:
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difficult in execution, but he bends, twists, and...
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distorts the law in such a way that...
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the criminal decisions of Russia's leadership...
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look, well, more or less acceptable from...
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a legal point of view.
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Putin's endless presidential terms,
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the absence of independent candidates at...
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any level,
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blatant election fraud,
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and 'democratically elected' United Russia members all...
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across the country—for all that, Boris Safar... should be
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thanked.
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In 2017, he kept Navalny off...
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the presidential ballot. Statements like these:
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Here:
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"Claims that the European Court overturned...
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the verdict handed down against me and...
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have absolutely no...
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grounds whatsoever."
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In 2019, last week, I and...
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other independent candidates...
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...were—well, Alena Eduardovna...
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So there you have him: Boris Safarovich...
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Ebzeev. If you didn't know who he was before, now you do.
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And now let's move from...
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the professional biography I've described...
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to his personal life.
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Ebzeev is 69 years old. He has a wife,
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an adult son, also named Boris, and a grandson, Artur.
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Ebzeev is very proud of his grandson Artur. For example,
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there was an article: the Central Election Commission is celebrating...
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the 70th anniversary of Victory Day, and in honor of that...
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a chess tournament was organized.
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Participants included Anatoly Karpov, the former head...
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of the CEC, Churov, as well as the ten-year-old grandson...
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of Boris Safarovich Ebzeev, Artur Ebzeev.
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It also says that by age 10 he already...
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held a third adult-category chess rank.
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There really is something to be proud of—a talented...
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boy.
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But an adult-category chess rank is...
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by no means the main or even the most...
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impressive achievement of little...
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Artur. I am not afraid to say it: Boris's grandson is...
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he is...
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probably the most talented and successful...
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child in human history, because...
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when he was four years old—I repeat,
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four years old—he bought an apartment measuring 274...
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square meters in the Ostozhenka district, in...
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an elite club-style residential building on...
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2nd Zachatievsky Lane. This is the building where...
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the four-year-old boy bought the largest...
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apartment available.
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A two-level apartment with a separate entrance. The market...
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value of such an apartment is about 500...
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million rubles. I emphasize:
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four-year-old Artur...
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was not given this apartment. The four-year-old...
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grandson of a Constitutional Court judge...
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bought it. A purchase agreement was signed in...
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his own name, with a number and date; the money was transferred.
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Everything was official. I'll tell you honestly:
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I've been working for the Anti-Corruption Foundation for nine years...
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and we've ordered and studied thousands, maybe tens of thousands...
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of property records. We have...
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never seen anything like this. But now you'll be...
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even more surprised. Artur's grandfather...
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at that time was the head of the Karachay-Cherkess...
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Republic, and obviously could not have had the money for an apartment for his grandson.
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But perhaps his father bought it?
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Maybe the father was an oligarch? With at least...
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some hope, we thought: let's see...
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what Boris...
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Ebzeev Jr. was doing at the time of the purchase.
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of the apartment.
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Boris Ebzeev Jr. was deputy...
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director of the Pension Fund of Russia. This is...
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one of those rare cases when you can...
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say that explaining this purchase...
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by any lawful means is simply...
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impossible. There is no scenario under which...
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these officials could have come up with...
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not just nearly half a billion for an apartment. And when...
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Artur was seven years old, he once again...
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entered the real estate market and concluded...
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a deal with an offshore company from the British...
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Virgin Islands, and sold...
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the above-mentioned apartment. A week before that...
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he invested a couple hundred...
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million rubles in a house on Rublyovka (an elite residential area outside Moscow), in...
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the settlement of Gorki-8. Here is the land registry extract:
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buyer: Artur Borisovich...
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Ebzeev, who would turn 8 a month later.
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As of today, I assume Artur is...
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enjoying his vacation, because in September he...
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starts 8th grade, and school is just around the corner. Artur's father,
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Boris Borisovich Ebzeev, although he has left...
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of the pension fund
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he did not leave public service; he works as a general
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as the director of an energy company
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of the South; this is a state-owned enterprise
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Part 1 of the grids
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which supplies electricity to
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four regions of Russia: Rostov
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Astrakhan, Volgograd regions, and
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the Republic of Kalmykia
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But about this old man, you all know: he
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is destroying the institution of elections in Russia. We have
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an absolutely legal, very
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effective, and most importantly simple way
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to stop them from so brazenly
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doing it
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stealing and mocking us and
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common sense. And Vyshinsky bears
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responsibility for the elections, both formally and
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personally, for the results before Putin
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Sobyanin and the presidential administration
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if they go successfully. But for them
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for United Russia
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Ebzeyev will definitely be given another
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medal or certificate for how deftly he
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shut out the independent candidates and did not
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allow them into the election to the Moscow
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City Duma
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Let’s not allow them this success. Smart
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Voting will help us do that if
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all of us together on September 8 vote for
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the candidate who has the best
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chance of defeating the United Russia candidate, then no
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United Russia candidates will simply remain
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Register, and we will send you the name
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On election day, you will vote, and that’s it, we will have
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a Moscow City Duma free of United Russia members, where his
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huge problems await him