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Hi, this is Navalny. No, I can't
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leave this man alone, because
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a third Bentley for the most
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disgusting State Duma deputy is just too much.
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I take it as simply a
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challenge to the Anti-Corruption Foundation, so
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as soon as I looked at the deputy's disclosure form,
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and all disclosures are published precisely
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now, in April, I immediately went to record
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this video so that first you would share my
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outrage, and then see a small
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act of retribution. People, you won't be bored — are you kidding?
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Deputy Slutsky, the head of the Committee on
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International Affairs, became known to the general public
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after several
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journalists complained about his
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sexual harassment.
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He harassed them right in his
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office in the State Duma, and we keep an eye on him
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because he's also a terrible crook,
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a corrupt official. We've already told you about
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the undeclared land plot on Rublyovka (an elite area outside Moscow),
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right next to his dacha, where he
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grabbed a hectare of forest land and failed to declare it
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for 10 years straight; about the new Maybach worth 12
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million rubles that he bought for himself in
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addition to the Bentley Continental and
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the Bentley Bentayga he already
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had; about the 825 traffic fines he
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racked up in nine months while being a
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psychopathic driver who ignores traffic
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rules entirely; about the penthouse
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measuring 562 square meters, worth 400 million
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rubles, which somehow magically
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ended up in the ownership of
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Slutsky's unemployed wife. There have already been enough cases
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with journalists alone to make
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Slutsky resign voluntarily, and as for
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any of the listed corruption
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episodes,
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under the law, each is enough to
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throw him out of the State Duma.
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Let me remind you that the developer of the building where
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Slutsky's wife's penthouse is located
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said outright: yes, we gave him
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that penthouse as a bribe.
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So what else, what else is needed to open
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a criminal case? And yet nothing
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happens. Slutsky remains
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a deputy as he was before. More than that, he has been
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fully cleared by the commission on
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ethics.
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Good... on Russia... discriminatory...
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mechanisms with the key word character did not...
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work out. My popularity is that with a
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plus sign it has sharply increased, and now let's
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just think this through logically.
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Let's imagine ourselves in Slutsky's place: the whole
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country has been dragging you through the mud for half a year, your
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behavior is being examined by special
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commissions, journalists because of you
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declare a boycott of the State Duma, and you
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barely, somehow apparently with money,
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avoid punishment while practically hanging by a
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thread.
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So the reasonable decision would seem
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to be to lie low for a while.
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But the real Slutsky, in response to that,
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would laugh with his disgusting deputy's
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laugh. It's you and I who calculate how many
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years he would need to work in order to buy
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even one car from his collection on
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his official salary.
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And what does he do? We open
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the disclosure and look together.
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He buys his wife yet another — a third —
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Bentley.
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I mean, what is this? Apparently driving the same one all the time
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just isn't cool enough, or something,
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so he needs one Bentley
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for trips to the dacha, a Bentley for
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driving to work, and a Bentley for trips
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to the grocery store. This time he bought a
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Bentley Mulsanne.
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With the extended wheelbase, it's even more expensive than any
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of Slutsky's previous Bentleys.
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It costs 30 million rubles. Now you ask me:
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listen, maybe
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this Slutsky's income has grown thirtyfold too?
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Surely this crook has to
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somehow explain where he gets
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the money for all this. Ha — no, everything is exactly the same:
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5 million rubles, which is exactly a deputy's
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salary, and not a kopeck more. So what
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are you doing, Slutsky? You're a deputy, a servant
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of the people, you represent the interests — forgive me,
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Lord —
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of your electorate. Your activities
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attract attention to such an extent —
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how brazen do you have to be to so ostentatiously,
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so openly and shamelessly shove
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your illegal
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wealth in everyone's face? Slutsky has really enraged us. If
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I were in power, he'd already be sitting
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in a cell under investigation. But since
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the authorities are still full of people like Slutsky, my
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small act of retribution will be this: in the
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main, so to speak, exclusive part
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of this video, I will simply tell the whole country
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where Slutsky gets his money, and
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I will rely only on official
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information. What are these sheets I'm holding in
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my right hand? This is Slutsky's disclosure form
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from the State Duma website. That's exactly the one
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we were just looking at, and
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we found three Bentleys there worth 30 million rubles.
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And what is this hefty stack I'm holding in
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my left hand? This is also Slutsky's disclosure form,
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but not the one the State Duma
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graciously publishes for us on
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its website — this is the real one, the full or expanded version,
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as the deputies themselves call it. This is the
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document that every deputy submits to the
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State Duma administration, and which
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is analyzed there for signs of corruption
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or, in general, anything suspicious.
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And then, only in a heavily, very heavily
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cut-down form, it gets posted on the website.
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I am publishing this document in full. It contains
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23 pages.
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It contains a ton of information about the life of our
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Bentley-loving friend, including his bank account numbers,
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addresses, and more. I think Slutsky will, of course,
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be upset about this,
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but what can you do? There is a public interest here. You
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are surely curious too: how, even purely mechanically,
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do Russian thieving
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officials, officially earning 5
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million rubles a year, buy things worth
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50 million? Or where do they get
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a state dacha on Rublyovka (an elite suburban area outside Moscow)?
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Elite living aside, how much do they actually
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keep in their bank accounts? All the answers
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are here, in the part of the declaration
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that concerns Slutsky's wife.
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The happy owner of a brand-new
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Bentley Mulsanne worth 30 million rubles,
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we start from the very beginning and see
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a great detail: it states that Slutsky's wife,
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dear Lidiya Dmitrievna,
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is a pensioner—not unemployed, not self-
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employed, but specifically a pensioner. I'll tell you
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more. Scroll down, and Slutsky's wife,
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owner of three Bentleys and a 600-square-meter
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penthouse in central Moscow, really does receive this pension.
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She actually applied for it,
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went to the pension fund, brought in the
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documents, and now every month
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18,000 rubles are deposited onto her bank card
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as a state pension, which she
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declares. She has no other income
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at all. Now we come to the most interesting
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part for us—the whole reason
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we are here today,
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so to speak. Where did the Bentley come from?
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Here is where: the Bentley was bought for 28
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million 200 thousand rubles, of which
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the pensioner paid 3 million 200 thousand
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herself,
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and borrowed 25 million. So,
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a 25 million ruble loan for a Bentley was
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given to a pensioner with an income of 18,000 rubles? How
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is that possible? I am sure that an ordinary
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Russian pensioner with that income
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would have a hard time getting credit even for
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a decent washing machine, but here it's 25
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million for the purchase
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of a luxury car. The answer is in this
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same wonderful document. Scroll to the end and
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we see that Slutsky's wife received the money
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as a loan from a certain Yurayev M.Yu.
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And he did it just like that: the loan
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was interest-free for 10 years. Yurayev, as
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five minutes of Googling will tell anyone,
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is Yushkevich Mordechai, a 34-year-old
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gentleman from Baku. Now let's look
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at what this mysterious man actually does.
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Right away we see his company, LLC Accord
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SpetsStroy, which just last year, in 2018,
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the same year as the generous loan to the deputy's wife,
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won a tender worth 33
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billion rubles in a fierce contest with
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other bidders. Mordechai's company
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won the right to repair more than 300,000
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square meters of roads in
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Moscow's Central Administrative District.
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That is dozens of streets and lanes
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where asphalt was laid, sidewalks redone,
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and curbs installed—Sobyanin's favorites (a reference to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin's constant curb-replacement projects). Besides that,
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the company also won a tender for the capital
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repair
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of ordinary apartment buildings in Moscow. And now is the right time
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to answer the question:
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why would Moscow developers pay bribes to
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Leonid Slutsky,
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the head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs? I have
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no doubt it is connected to Deputy Slutsky's daddy.
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Deputy Slutsky's daddy.
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According to numerous media reports, Slutsky
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is the illegitimate son of another,
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much more famous
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and even legendary deputy from
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United Russia, Vladimir Resin. Do not let the different
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patronymics and
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surnames confuse you.
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Several sources, including Meduza,
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have confirmed that Slutsky calls Resin
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"dad," and they even travel to work
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to the State Duma together. And just look for yourself:
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they literally never appear without
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each other. So, Resin was the longtime head
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of Moscow's construction complex under Luzhkov (former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov), and now he is
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an aide to Patriarch Kirill and an adviser
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to Sergei Sobyanin. Resin still
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remains one of the most influential
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people in Moscow's power structures.
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So, in just three
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minutes of reading an official document,
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we have established that what we have here is a classic
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bribe. Let's even set the details aside.
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What are we left with? The owner of a large
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construction company gives the wife of a State Duma deputy
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an interest-free loan of 25 million rubles.
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The FSB officers who were
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supposed to review this declaration
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should have immediately seen
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a red warning light flashing: corruption, corruption,
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bribe.
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Come on then—the prosecutor's office, the Investigative
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Committee, Putin the chekist (former Soviet/Russian security officer)—sort it out.
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The document is right here.
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It was officially submitted to the State Duma administration, it
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is signed, and that signature
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is basically a confession.
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There is nothing to prove. Let me give you one more
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funny example. Do you remember that Slutsky had a
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Maybach—the very same Maybach
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in which this deputy,
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this pervert, violated traffic
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rules 825 times? Now it has disappeared from
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the declaration, and here we see
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why: the deputy sold it—for attention—
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for 200,000 rubles.
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What a strange deal. Why would anyone sell
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for 200,000 rubles a car worth
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12 million rubles? How can that be?
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As it turns out, we dig into it and uncover
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yet another scheme by a so-called servant of the people
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He sold the Maybach—sold it a month
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after our investigation. He sold it, and
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of course, it was a sham sale.
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In reality, he simply re-registered it so that
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we could no longer track his
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traffic fines.
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The car’s license plate was changed. Now
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look—this screenshot shows
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the car’s unique VIN, that is, its identification number,
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and the owner changed in April 2018.
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We google the new plate number, and in
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the very first photo, of course, we see
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our wonderful Slutsky
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getting into that very same Maybach.
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The photo was taken in November 2018,
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that is, six months after the so-called
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sale. Here are a few more photos.
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Slutsky’s old driver, but now with new
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plates.
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He’s driving in the bus lane—classic. And here’s
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another one.
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Another meeting, and again the Maybach is there.
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We zoom in and see the nasty face of deputy
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Slutsky
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in the passenger seat. The car is not
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declared. I repeat once again, and
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loudly, for all the inspectors: here are
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photos of Slutsky with the car, taken
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at different times and in different places. He uses it.
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And here is the declaration: there is no Maybach in it.
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No. Here is another very telling example. Slutsky has
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his own large dacha (country house)
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on Rublyovka (an elite residential area outside Moscow), but apparently he also needs
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to squeeze something more out of us, and the State Duma
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provides him with another official
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state dacha, also on Rublyovka, just
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4 kilometers from his own.
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Why the hell should we be paying for his
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government dacha if he already has his own? But apparently
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we should. And Slutsky explains this in
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his declaration: the dacha is owned by him,
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but is for the use of
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his wife and daughter, so he needs
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a separate one. And the Russian taxpayer shouldn’t
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show off—just pay up. In short, when
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you, dear viewers, next hear
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about Putin’s uncompromising fight against
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corruption,
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about how Putin has taken everything under control and how
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ruthlessly he is driving corrupt officials
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out of power, please remember this
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video. Go back and reread this
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document. Reread my post. In the hands of
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Putin, the State Duma
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and of Bastrykin and Chaika, there are thousands of documents like this.
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For 10 years in a row, each of the 450 deputies
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has filed annual reports and submitted
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a very detailed document like this one,
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and all it takes is five minutes
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to spot five different criminal offenses in it.
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Do you know the average income of a State Duma deputy
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from United Russia? 25 million rubles (about $400,000 at the time).
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And I guarantee you that they’re all
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just like Slutsky. Slutsky’s boss,
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State Duma Speaker Volodin,
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knows that Slutsky and Resin are thieves and
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bribe-takers, but does nothing because
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he’s the same kind of thief. The head of Slutsky’s party,
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Zhirinovsky, of course knows that
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Slutsky is a thief, but does nothing because
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he steals too—and even takes a cut
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from our hero. And the bosses of those bosses—
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who might that be?
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Kiriyenko? Well,
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it’s the same situation. The people who are supposed
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to check and control all this—
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Bastrykin, Chaika, Bortnikov, Patrushev,
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Medvedev—each of them is a dollar
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millionaire.
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So what can they possibly hold against
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Slutsky over his measly three Bentleys?
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And Putin is at the top of it all.
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Of course, Putin is the richest
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among them and the chief corrupt figure
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in the country. That is exactly what the famous
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