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Well then, admit it—you want to take a look at
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Medvedev's dacha. I can tell you do, and I
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honestly really want to show it to you
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myself, because Medvedev is
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the Prime Minister of the Russian government and
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the leader of the United Russia party, and right now he is running
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in the elections at the head of that party, campaigning
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for himself and promising all sorts of things, but
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for some reason he forgot to show the public his
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dacha. He forgot, but we did not.
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Actually, what is known as
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"Medvedev's dacha" has been known about for several
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years. It is a huge residence near
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the old Russian town of Plyos, in Ivanovo
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Region. Journalists were writing about it as far back as
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2011, and it is even mentioned on Wikipedia,
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but there were no photographs at all—not a single
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photo—because nobody could get close
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to it, and that is not surprising at all. Just
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look at the 6-meter-high fence (about 20 feet)
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surrounding it. Any approach or access road to
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this residence is restricted not only from
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the land, but also from the Volga River, which
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it borders. Medvedev himself comes here
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quite regularly, and arrives here by yacht on
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his own.
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United Russia leaders have also come here by water; you can
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tell from this. Look—here is a photo with
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little mushrooms, and then we check where it
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was taken, and from the geotag we can see it was taken right there,
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at the residence in Plyos. So, what is left for us
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to do? The easiest part—get over this
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very same 6-meter fence. For the
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aerospace forces of the Anti-Corruption Foundation,
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that is no problem at all,
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so for the first time, a flight over what
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journalists call Medvedev's
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dacha. We fly in from the Volga side and
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immediately see a private pier and two hovercraft.
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They are stationed here
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around the clock at this residence. This is also where
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the slope for downhill skiing ends.
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We see two houses, and you almost want to
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say, "Oh, yes, they are quite
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small." But do not rush—the main
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residence will come at the end. And this, judging
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by everything, is a guest house—or some kind of
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house built next to the ski
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lift.
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Look, this is a secure communications station. Every
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time we see these on the properties of various
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top
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officials. Here is the famous 6-meter
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fence. Looking at this, you almost want to say,
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"This must be the back part of the residence, where there are
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greenhouses, servants' quarters, and all that." But in
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fact, according to the documents, the residence
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extends all the way over there, on the horizon, at the
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edge of the distant
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forest—there is a hotel for staff there.
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[music]
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Another
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secure communications station. And here we see two
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helipads. There are three of them in the
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residence in total, just like at the famous
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Putin palace in
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[music]
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Gelendzhik. And now we are approaching the main
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part of the whole estate. There is even a small
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fence here that
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separates it from the rest of the property.
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The historic Milovka estate,
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built in 1775—only now brand-new and
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restored.
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A little house for
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[music]
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a duck. We turn and see two guest
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houses, one of them with an elaborate
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cascade pool. You will see it
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in a moment. In the distance we see another house on the
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shore, and we fly toward
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[music]
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it. This is the house with the pool. We do not know the details,
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but in the documents it is listed
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exactly that way. The pool must be quite
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large.
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[music]
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Well, here we have Rus' (an old poetic term for Russia) and its endless
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expanses—and again a 6-meter fence
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separating Rus' from Dmitry Medvedev. Or
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perhaps Dmitry Medvedev from Rus', so that it
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does not smack him around
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too hard. We fly back. The total area
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of the residence is more than 80 hectares (about 198 acres). That is almost
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like three Kremlins, or 30 Red
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Squares. We cannot even estimate its market value.
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The reconstruction of an old
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estate, houses, pools, a hotel, a ski
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slope, underground facilities—we assume
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that building such a complex would cost no
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less than 25-30 billion rubles. Here, by the way, is a board
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for giant chess. On it, Dmitry Medvedev himself could
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be the king and
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smash the unruly pieces. All in all, it is
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spacious and splendid here. It is probably a very
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good place to think. It was probably here that Dmitry
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Medvedev came up with his best catchphrases,
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like "Hang in there" and "I wish you all the best
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—good mood and good health."
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You are probably very interested in who
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paid for all this splendor. One thing can
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be said for sure: Medvedev did not.
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The estate was owned
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at first by a foundation called Dar, and
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it is closely connected to Svetlana Medvedeva.
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Even the supervisory board of this foundation
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was headed by Medvedev's former classmate, Ilya
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Yeliseyev. According to media reports, the generous sum of
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30 billion rubles was kicked over to the nonprofit foundation
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by
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Simanovsky and Mikhelson. With that
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money, the foundation bought the historic estate,
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reconstructed it, and built everything you
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have seen. A month after the announcement of the
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famous "castling" (the 2011 Putin-Medvedev job swap), the Plyos
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estate
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was re-gifted to a nonprofit foundation for
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the preservation of historical and cultural heritage.
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And that is how, in this rather interesting way,
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Russia's cultural heritage is being preserved
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behind a 6-meter-high fence, guarded by the FSO (Federal Protective Service) and
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special government communications on weekends and holidays
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the cultural heritage is personally protected by
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the Prime Minister of Russia. Is this
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all corruption? Of course it is, just like
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most of the shady dealings carried out by
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Putin, Medvedev, and their party, United Russia
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and it is no coincidence that Medvedev is now running
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as the top name on that party's list. Well,
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just look for yourselves: this is what
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel's country house looks like. And
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this is the home of former U.S. President Bill
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Clinton. Compare them with Medvedev's. And
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now let's compare the minimum wages
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in Russia, that would be 7,500 rubles; in
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the U.S., 82,000 rubles; and in Germany, 107,500 rubles
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It's strange: our country is poor, yet
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its leader lives, well, 300 times
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more luxuriously than the leaders of wealthy countries, and
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all this corruption becomes possible
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thanks to those who vote for United
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Russia, so don't be one of those people
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if you do decide to go to these elections this
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coming weekend, then be sure to
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vote against United Russia and
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get as many people you know as possible to do the same
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Of course, they won't show you Medvedev's dacha (country residence) on TV,
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