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Do you remember what you were doing on July 1 of this year?
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Well, I know what the independent
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candidates for the Moscow City Duma were doing: they were running around their
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districts collecting signatures. I remember what
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Navalny was doing too: he was in court. On that
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day, he was arrested for 10 days. And I remember
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what I was doing as well: that day we were publishing
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an investigation about a crook from the Moscow City Duma,
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Metelsky.
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And then I was walking my dog, Simpson. But
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what was the son
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of the longest-serving Moscow City Duma deputy, Vladimir
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Platonov, doing on July 1 of this year? He was buying an apartment for 600
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million rubles in one of the most
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elite
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exclusive and expensive residential complexes in Moscow, Barkli
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Plaza, at Prechistenskaya Embankment
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17.
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Here is the document, here is the date, here is the name: Platonov
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Ilya Vladimirovich.
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Here he is, and here is his father, Vladimir
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Platonov.
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A deputy for six terms since 1993—that is,
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for the last 26 years he has been in the Moscow City Duma, and before
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that he worked in the prosecutor's office for eight years. He was
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the chairman of that very Moscow City Duma, that is,
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the top deputy, for
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20 years. That's three lifetimes. And at the same time,
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for five years he was a member of the Federation Council. He was
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a democrat, a member of the SPS party (Union of Right Forces),
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but then, when his sensitive bureaucrat's nose
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caught the right political wind, Platonov
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switched to United Russia. This is a man
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who has literally grown into his deputy's
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chair. We checked a hundred times, but
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deputy Platonov's son, Ilya, simply has no
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official business that would allow
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him to make these purchases. In the news
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he appears only as a socialite.
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He used to be the boyfriend of a singer from the group
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Blestyashchiye,
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and now he is dating Instagram star
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Sofia Shlyaga. And by the way, here she is
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posing in that very 600-million-ruble apartment
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(about $6.5 million).
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Many thanks to her, because from this
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photo we were able to determine where the apartment
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is located.
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And if 600 million rubles doesn't sound like an impressive amount to you,
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then how about 4 billion?
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That's how much a house in the most expensive
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settlement on Rublyovka (Moscow's ultra-elite suburban area) that Ilya
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Platonov bought last year costs. This
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mansion—I won't bore you with the details.
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In fact, Platonov moved there at
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the age of 25; it was just that earlier everything
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had been registered in his ex-mother-in-law's name.
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The house is 4,000 square meters
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(about 43,000 square feet), with an underground garage for 18 cars,
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some fountains and gardens—you can see for yourself.
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The plot area is 11,500
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square meters. That's how the children
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of Moscow City Duma deputies live. I should add with regret that just recently
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Platonov Jr.
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sold this house.
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Good thing he still has an apartment—
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372 square meters
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on Prechistenskaya Embankment—otherwise the poor man
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would have ended up on the street. So that you don't think
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that wealth falls only
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on young Platonov, let me tell you specifically
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that deputy Platonov himself is not
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exactly struggling either. His new wife has
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an apartment of 173 square meters
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on Leninsky Prospekt.
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And besides that, while already serving as
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deputy Platonov's assistant, in 2008 she bought
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a 187-square-meter apartment in the residential
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complex Zolotye Klyuchi. That's at least another
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50 million rubles. I will try to be
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objective and say: of course, we cannot
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claim that Ilya's father,
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Moscow City Duma deputy Platonov, personally gave
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him these billions for the Rublyovka palace and
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the apartment.
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But where did the son of an influential
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Moscow politician get 4 billion rubles for a house
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at the age of 25? Where did he get
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600 million rubles for an apartment now? Do
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you know many people who have an extra
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600 million rubles lying around? At the very least, all this
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raises questions. If there were an independent
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deputy in the Moscow City Duma, he or she
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would ask: do we need deputies like
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Platonov in the Moscow City Duma? Of course not. Thank you
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very much. For different people to end up in the Moscow City Duma,
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you need to take part in Smart
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Voting. Every one of you can make sure
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that a United Russia candidate does not win the election in
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your district. Here's the link.
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Register, and we will send you the name
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of the non-United Russia candidate
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who has the best chance of winning
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the election in your constituency. It couldn't be simpler.