The Secret Wealth of the Internet Thief

Hi, it’s Navalny with a Christmas tale.

And yes, I am going to need these 5000 rubles, because that’s how life our country is.

If you want to tell a story, you gotta pay.

There’s a popular Christmas movie that will be running on all channels now:

How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

I have something similar for you. But unlike Grinch, it’s a real story.

A story of a man who blocks your internet.

In the upcoming year, we’ll see a great battle between Putin and United Russia and the internet.

The preparations are well under way.

Recently, they introduced a bill that will allow to fine people for 5000 rubles

or even detain them for 15 days for disrespecting the government on the internet.

This is why I’m putting this bill aside, to pay the future fine.

And now, I’m not going to restrain myself

and show all the disrespect I have to make it worth my 5000 rubles.

You motherfucker, come on you little ass… fuck with me, eh?

You fucking little asshole, dickhead cocksucker…

Today complete and utter disrespect will be aimed at the author of this amazing bill.

Make sure you remember him.

This is Putin’s main soldier in his fight against the internet.

It’s him who writes and introduces the most idiotic and harmful bills

aimed at making it impossible to speak, read or write on the internet in our country.

Everything needs to be approved by Putin, Medvedev, United Russia

and, apparently, our hero, senator from Krasnoyarsk Krai Andrey Klishas.

This fellow is quite keen on banning things.

He’s the author of the vast majority of unconstitutional prohibitive bills

that were passed during Putin’s last two terms.

Labelling mass media as “foreign agents” and issuing them insane fines – that’s him.

Criminal sanctions for one-man protests – him again.

Oh, and the bill on isolation of Russian internet too. There’s a lot more.

There are citizens who systematically get fined for violating the established procedure.

Some have been fined dozens of times, Vladimir Vladimirovich.

Still, this had no desired effect on them.

You can see that this man works flat out, slogs away and thinks hard

on what he should prohibit next.

But the general public doesn’t know about him and doesn’t notice his longstanding hard work.

That’s unfair. Let’s fix it.

Andrey Klishas’s Minute of Fame

Andrey Alexandrovich Klishas. Member of the Federation Council since 2012.

He became a senator literally a week after Putin’s re-election.

From the start of his political career, his motto was: “I’ll prohibit them everything”.

So he went on prohibiting protest rallies, one-man protests,

mass media with foreign financing and the internet.

But this isn’t enough for him. Klishas has climbed to a new level of his pyramid of needs.

Now, he demands respect.

But you don't ask with respect. You don't offer friendship.

That’s why his new bill proposes punishment for disrespect of government officials.

Well, let’s see if there’s something senator Klishas should be respected for.

You don't even think to call me Godfather.

He began his legal career in 1995.

He came to Moscow from Ekaterinburg and enrolled into RUDN University.

He was in the same year as me, by the way.

Already during his time there, he got his first job at the Russian Federal Property Fund.

You’ve heard many times about privatization in Russia. How unfair, illegal and brigandish it was.

About the infamous loans-for-shares.

They knew that every sold share is a nail in the communism’s coffer.

Expensive, cheap, free or with extra payment… That didn’t matter.

This was all done through the Federal Porperty Fund,

and Klishas found himself right in the middle of this joint.

As a lawyer, he made sure these machinations seemed legal.

There, the biggest case of his life happened.

He formalized the privatization (i.e. helped steal) Nornickel.

This was a Soviet world scale mega-enterprise.

The whole country toiled and moiled to build this marvel in the Arctic circle.

It currently monopolizes the nickel and copper market.

One of the world’s largest non-ferrous and precious metals mining companies.

It’s clear that such a titbit is worth a ton of money.

But this is Russia, right?

If something state-owned is worth a ton of money,

you can get it almost for free through a small machination.

The government announced a loans-for-shares auction,

during which Nornickel was bought for laughable $170 million by Onexim Bank

that belonged to oligarchs Prokhorov and Potanin.

After several years, Prokhorov, who’s earned billions on Nornickel,

will invest $200 million into the NBA club New Jersey Nets.

That’s more than he bought this gigantic Soviet enterprise for back in the day.

So when you see articles that say that Potanin is ranked 6th in the Forbes list with a net worth of $16 billion,

and Prokhorov is 13th with $9.5 billion,

know that this is where all that money came from.

They never did any other business, nothing.

Let’s get back Klishas, though. Our hero, who was much thinner back then,

formalized all this on behalf of the state.

Apparently, his efforts didn’t go unnoticed, so right after Nornickel was stolen,

he left civil service to work at (you guessed it!) Onexim Bank, with oligarchs Prokhorov and Potanin.

And he’s worked there for 15 years.

That’s his entire biography, and there’s not much else to say.

Well, he’s also the head of a department at RUDN University.

He’s no businessman, no entrepreneur, no inventor.

He’s a simple corporate lawyer who built his career on fraudulent loans-for-shares in the 90s.

A manager who works for an oligarch.

If Klishas didn’t join the government, no one would have learned about him,

other than subscribers of business magazines

or a weekly newspaper called “Norilsk Legal Informer” that comes in edition of 200 copies.

But no, he wanted power and fame.

He decided that the fact he’s successfully stolen a huge mining plant from us

means that he knows better how we should live and what we can and cannot do.

What we can and cannot write and speak about.

He sincerely hates and despises us, he tries to push us all into a corral and put a huge lock on it.

Because we, those who can write something about him on the internet, are the bane of his existence.

We prevent him from occupying himself with what he really likes: property, watches, money and… dogs.

I can feel how this cold winter day is becoming warmer for you just from a look at this footage.

Look at this beauty, it’s breathtaking. We’re approaching the Swiss villa of senator Klishas.

Yes, this is how a real Putin’s fan should live. 1000 sq m of precious Swiss land with a 432 sq m house on it.

The house is three-story, it has a garage and a small pool. But most important is the view.

No camera can transmit the beauty of the Swiss mountains rising over the Lake Maggiore.

This is what Klishas sees from the balcony of his house.

We showed you pictures of this house back in 2014. Back then, we caught Klishas on fraud:

in his tax return, he claimed that the land plot is 400 sq m smaller than it really is.

We forgot about the senator after it, and remembered about him because of the war against the internet.

We decided to tell you more about his property, and we were shocked.

Hey! This is a special insert into our main video.

Here, we’ll simply swipe through the photos of state official Klishas and count how much his watches are worth.

So. This one, worth 12 million rubles, is at the bottom of our list. Next, we have this one, worth 18.5 million.

And here, you can see a 20-million-ruble watch on our civil servant’s wrist.

“What an ugly watch” – you’ll say, but you just don’t get it. It’s worth 26 million rubles. How much is this one worth?

We quickly find an answer – 28 million rubles. And this one as well.

And here's Patek Philippe (the only name I can pronounce).

It looks really modest. But no, it’s the most expensive one – 32 million rubles.

But honestly, why can’t a man who gets his salary from the state and drafts bills for you buy a watch for 32 million?

This is perfectly normal.

The total worth of all Klishas’s watches we’ve found is 163 million rubles,

but that’s not all of them. Join us, take his photos, compare them with the pictures on sellers’ websites and get envious.

Tell me, how many dachas does a man need? Scratch that, how many manors does a man need?

Huge palace-like manors with outdoor space, gardens and maid’s rooms?

We’ve already established that Klishas has a house in Switzerland. Of course, he also has one in Moscow Oblast.

On Rublyovka, naturally. Gorki-2. Just a couple of kilometers from Putin’s residence in Novo-Ogarevo.

A 1200 sq m, three-story house. Huge outdoor space with gazebos and landscape design.

You can see another group of buildings on the satellite photo. This, my friends, is the dog pound. Klishas lives with 30 dogs.

He really likes dogs, unlike Russian citizens. He has a kennel at his house, he’s the head of kennel clubs,

he judges dog shows and even publishes a magazine about dachshunds.

Klishas bought this land plot in 2003. Let’s measure its area: it’s 8400 sq m (80 ares).

Now let’s get the land registry extracts. Indeed, this land plot is registered in Klishas’s name.

Also this one, with the house. But the largest one isn’t registered anywhere.

The documents say that this isn’t Klishas’s manor, but the land of their housing co-op.

This means that, just like in Switzerland, Klishas only includes a part of his property in his tax return.

These 5000 sq m should be listed as “in use”, but they aren’t.

Three years after buying this dacha, our senator and his dogs outgrew Rublyovka. So he bought a new house.

On Pestovo reservoir, north of Moscow. That’s where we’re headed now.

Right here, on the riverbank with a private pier (please take my word, there’s a river under this snow)

is where Klishas’s land starts. The houses are hidden behind the trees. Their total area is 2000 sq m.

We also see some reindeer, horses and hares. The total area of this land plot is 13,000 sq m (1.3 ha).

It’s almost 2 times bigger than the one on Rublyovka.

You may think I’m joking now, but I’m not.

Three years after he bought this dacha… Klishas outgrew it too.

And in 2009, he bought a land plot on Istra river, west of Moscow. Take a look for yourselves.

We’re approaching one of the most monumental buildings of Moscow region.

The land plot’s even bigger now – 6 times bigger. 7.5 hectares. And the house…

Look, I don’t even know how to describe it. This residence isn’t finised yet, but its really impressive already.

The area of the house is, believe it or not, 9000, sq m. Do you remember Shuvalov’s palace? This one is twice as big.

Since we’re very curious and really don’t like senator Klishas, we’ll check who he bought this land from just in case.

Crooked government officials love buying property from themselves.

So, Klishas bought the land plot from a company called Russian Tradition.

By old Russian tradition, the company is owned by a BVI offshore company.

And if we see a BVI offshore company, we know the ears of some fan of Vladimir Putin will be sticking out of it.

Well, the mustache in our case. Let’s check the database. This company owns a Maybach. It’s worth 12 million rubles.

If it owns a car, this means that there must be some reach guy driving it.

We find 100 fines issued to this car for traffic violations

and look through all the photos of violations

All parking violations were committed in front of the Federation Council, Klishas's workplace.

Very soon, we find a bald plump man entering the supercar. That’s out hero, senator Andrey Klishas, himself.

He drives to do important state affairs in a car he forgot to include in his tax return.

We understand, it would be awkward to include it, so he registered the car to the offshore company.

Next, we find a lot more signs that the offshore company is owned by senator Klishas.

Its Russian subsidiary is managed by Eduard Eremyan.

He’s also Klishas’s deputy at the department of constitutional law of the faculty of law of RUDN University

Upon closer look, we see that Eremyan and Klishas are very close.

They’re partners at the Modern History NPO, which – I’m not kidding – is also registered to the offshore company.

Eremyan loves the senator so much that he even registered

13 domain names with the word “Klishas”: klishas-a, klishas-aa, a-klishas, and so on.

Moreover, Klishas’s obsession with dogs somehow got transferred to Eremyan,

so he registered a dozen dog-related domain names about as well: a website about English and French bulldogs,

greyhounds, sennenhunds and even chihuahueno – that’s the Mexican breed of chihuahua.

We think that Eremyan is a nominee who manages Klishas’s offshore businesses

that he as a government official is strictly forbidden to own.

Let me sum up our Christmas story. Russia wants to moderate the internet and fine and arrest us all

for showing disrespect to the government and officials online.

And the man who writes these laws is a crook who got crazy from his own importance

and is obsessed with property, watches, fur coats and dogs.

I hope that he t least doesn’t make fur coats out of his dogs.

He has unregistered land in Switzerland and Moscow region and an unregistered Maybach,

and it seems like he also has a secret offshore company.

He personally organized the vilest and most brigandish machinations during the privatization in the 90s.

And now this blockhead wants us to respect him under penalty of fine or arrest.

So let’s promise each other in these last days of 2018 that in the upcoming 2019

we won’t show the least bit of respect towards this gatherig of crooks and thieves.

To the likes of Medvedev, Putin and Klishas.

Let’s promise that we will do all we can to make sure United Russia loses the elections

and participate in the “Smart Voting” project.

Let’s promise that we won’t fear them and do all we can to liberate our country from all this scum.

Our plan for 2019 is to work on this. Happy New Year!