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Doug the Dem

(1,297 posts)
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 05:01 AM Aug 2017

Russia: Navalny trains spotlight on lifestyle of Putin spokesman's son

Source: The Guardian

Friday 18 August 2017 04.00 BST

In 2010, Nikolay Choles was a troubled British youth, jailed for assaulting a man outside a McDonald’s restaurant in Milton Keynes.

By 2017, according to the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, Choles had become a fixture on the Moscow social circuit, driving Ferraris and travelling first-class or by private jet.

The transformation, Navalny says, is due to Choles’ parentage – he is the son of President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov.

Navalny, an anti-corruption campaigner who wants to stand against Putin in presidential elections next year, released alleged details about Choles’ life in a blogpost on Thursday, his latest salvo against the high lives of the Russian elite.

“Nikolay Choles is an example of how in Russia, where 20 million people live in poverty … you can live wonderfully, while doing absolutely nothing,” he wrote.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/18/russia-navalny-trains-spotlight-on-lifestyle-of-putin-spokesmans-son



Navalny has cojones, gotta give him that!

For an explanation of how a "British youth" turns out to be a Russian brat, click the link.
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Russia: Navalny trains spotlight on lifestyle of Putin spokesman's son (Original Post) Doug the Dem Aug 2017 OP
republican family values, russian style Achilleaze Aug 2017 #1
Who does this guy think he is - Scarsdale Aug 2017 #2
"Navalny has cojones, gotta give him that!" Not for long, I'm afraid. Nitram Aug 2017 #3

Nitram

(22,671 posts)
3. "Navalny has cojones, gotta give him that!" Not for long, I'm afraid.
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 10:19 AM
Aug 2017

Putin's reach is long and very deadly.

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