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 McDonalds 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 Putins 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.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)deplorable.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)a tRump?
Nitram
(22,671 posts)Putin's reach is long and very deadly.