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Hi, it's Navalny.

I came up with the idea

for this investigation back

when I was in intensive care,

but we decided immediately

that we will release it

only when I return home to Russia.

To Moscow, because we do not want

the main character of this film

to think that we are afraid of him

and that we would tell

all his worst secrets while I am abroad.

This viewer is the most devoted

fan of our work on his orders.

I was poisoned.

That is, of course Vladimir Putin.

He is definitely watching

now and his heart

must be overflowing with nostalgia.

This is not just an investigation,

it is in a sense

a psychological portrait.

I very much want to understand

how an ordinary Soviet officer

turned into this madman.

Obsessed with money and luxury.

Today we will see something

which was considered impossible.

To look up close we.

Will go when no one is allowed.

We will go to visit Putin.

See with our own eyes that this person

with his craving for luxury

for wealth is completely insane.

We will find out how and with whose money

this opulence is funded

and how over the last 15 years.

The biggest bribe in

history is being given

in the most expensive palace

in the world is being built.

It was here in Dresden

where Putin defined his

main principles of life

and which would later become the basis

of the Russian state.

First, you always say

one thing and do another lying

and hypocrisy is the best practice.

Second, corruption

is the foundation of trust

with your main accomplices,

those who have been stealing

and cheating together

with you for many years.

And the most important third,

there is no such thing as too much money.

It was in those days

that Putin's career took off.

One of the main Democrats of the time

was the radical critic of the USSR.

Anatoly Sorbed shock.

And so it came to pass that

the man who dreamed

of riches all his life, finally realized

it was coming within his grasp.

Now he realized he had

ended up in a posting

where there is something to steal

where bribes are given.

It was here that I, Vladimir

Vladimirovich, revealed himself

the most famous and well investigated

is the topic of export licenses.

Putin was engaged

in issuing such licenses

to export businesses who were allowed

to sell petroleum products, timber,

aluminium, copper, cotton,

any raw materials abroad

in exchange for food.

Quite literally oil

in exchange for sugar and protectors.

Timber in exchange for baby food.

Putin personally distributed licenses,

and as it turned out later

gave them to phantom businesses,

including to ones

associated with his friends.

The scheme was elementary, raw

materials went abroad,

the fake company received the money.

Liberty products never arrived.

This is our model

and this is the most precious thing

we have.

One of the main locations

for Putin 's earnings was the seaport.

This place was legendary.

It was a symbol of gangster

Saint Peters Burg in the early nineties.

This strategic facility

had turned into a gangland territory

where people were shot and killed

and there was continuous looting.

Report was controlled

by one of the most famous

crime bosses in Russia.

Earlier, Traber, nicknamed Antiquaria,

but bandits bandits

yet still all sorts of people.

Permission required.

You still need to sign formalize.

This is what Putin officially did.

Formally, he represented

the interests of the state.

In fact, he just helped deport

criminals, manage their interests.

He was a useful helper

who could assist real tough guys

solve their problems.

Precisely then, the story of his over

profitable oil trader

business convert began

when Putin became president

for the five main

oil companies of our country

would not selling their oil

abroad directly.

Instead, it was done through

the Swiss intermediary Convore.

So without doing anything, teach

anchor and unbelievable amounts of money

throughout the entire

existence of converting.

It was considered that Putin has

a secret share in the business

and even EU S Treasury officially claimed

that Putin, a direct access to can wars.

Runs, but who the registered

shareholders we're in.

This business was for many years

not clear, and then it turned out

that all this time there was a secret

shareholder, Peter Kolben.

Nobody understood where this amazing

shareholder came from.

The person who claimed

that they weren't interested

in running a business

yet could have millions of dollars

to invest in convert.

That is, until 2016,

when journalists on Earth

that Peter Cobain was a close childhood

friend of Putin.

They went together

in the same village to the discos.

Their families were friends

and it became obvious that Colburn

was the holder of Putin's shares.

All this time, you sit and think,

how does this happen?

This Putin received

these bribes in envelopes.

Yes, now it turns out that Putin was

directly paid bribes in envelopes.

Putin consolidated his power.

He controlled television records

and established an

election rigging system.

He began and continues to this day,

the largest operation to seize and extort

from the Russian state.

Each of Putin's friends gets a piece.

1/6 on the assets of Gazprom,

a second begins milking Rosneft.

A third grabs the

largest construction project.

The gang of bribe takers and crooks

from the Saint Petersburg

Mayor's office sees the old key posts

and declared themselves

brilliant managers and saviors of Russia.

But despite the fact

that our heroes dressed up

and surrounded themselves

with hundreds of guards,

their founding principle remained

on, which all is based

since the dashing 90s

in Saint Petersburg.

If you want to steal

from the budget and siphon

off state funds,

you have to share with Putin.

Whereas before Putin wrote

relatively small amounts

on a piece of paper and lyosha

Miller collected them for him.

Now he looked a single words

on a piece of paper

and that word was Palace.

It's the largest construction

project in the world.

It is the most secret

and guarded location in Russia.

Without exaggeration,

this is not a country house.

Not to Dutch are not a residence,

it's a whole city.

It is a Kingdom.

It is impregnable, fences, its own

harbor, its own guard, a church.

Security controls and no fly zone

and even its own border checkpoint.

It is a state within a state.

The Russian state, and in this state

there is only a single

and irreplaceable czar.

Putin, wait, you tell me.

We've heard about this palace.

We know that it was

originally made for Putin,

but then the whole story was revealed in

the construction was frozen.

Then some businessmen

bought the palace light.

You are telling us some old story.

You were on.

This story is not known to anyone.

In the first place, you cannot

imagine the true size of this palace.

Secondly, there was

never an official sale.

This is an illusion created

with several fictitious deals

and an active media campaign.

The only true owner of this famous place

from the very beginning to

the president is Vladimir

Vladimirovich Putin.

Putin moved and fourthly looking inside.

You will understand

that the President of Russia

is mentally ill.

He is obsessed with wealth and luxury.

If we compare it

to the Principality of Monaco, a small

but still is separate country,

this property is 39 times

the size of Principality of Monaco.

It was built to make it impossible

to get close to it by land

or by sea or by air.

We have protested this for years.

It's so completely crazy.

For years now we have shown

you from the air,

the exteriors of property

owned by corrupt officials,

but now you will see the palace

of the most corrupt official

of all from the inside

as well as a tour of the Royal Chambers

which I'm sure you are

looking forward to.

You will discover that

the real palace of Putin

is not just this house

but also 20,000 acres of land,

almost 740 acres of vineyards

in four different locations, ishuttle

wineries, oyster

farms and endless luxury.

I will tell you where all this came from

and with whose money was used to build it

and about what dark money

continues to build.

It right now let's go.

Hello everyone,

this is George real blood.

We are in a slightly

unusual situation for us.

In fact we are in the christnet

eregion on the black seacoast

literally 3 kilometres

from the famous Putin's palace.

We arrived here in a very strange way.

We swapped tickets

we didn't get off the tour stops,

we change SIM cards and phones.

We carried out a whole special

operation to get here

so that the police

don't follow us or the FSB

or the employees

of the surveillance centers

who always try when we come

to the Chris Nadare job

and we succeeded.

Right now

we're a few 100 meters from the coast

and for 10s of kilometers around,

not a single policeman

knows what we're doing here.

It's great because right now

we will launch the drone

and make a legendary video

for you of the Palace of Putin,

which has never been filmed

before by a drone.

It is so secret that it is guarded

by the Federal Security Service.

Everyone said that

it was impossible to film it.

We thought so ourselves

and then we went ahead and tried it.

It did not work.

So we made four more attempts

and eventually one succeeded.

We present you with the

most secret palace in

Russia, Putin's palace,

new challenge chick.

Here it is right in front of you.

This is the largest private

residential building in Russia.

It's area officially confirmed

according to documents, is

190,424 square feet.

There isn't even anything to compare it

to the most luxurious houses

in LA Bioglass several

times smaller than this

new Versailles or the New Winter Palace.

Truly a place fit for his are

so now we will only admire the outside.

Let's fly over it,

close enough to see everything in detail.

Oh what is happening here.

Some kind of blue top windows boarded up.

The pool is closed.

Building materials on the ground.

Workers scurrying around,

barely noticeable

against the backdrop of the palace.

What is happening?

Why is the construction here?

If 6 year old satellite images show

that the palace was finished back then,

the builders explained it to us.

Everything really was ready before.

Yes, propeller disaster struck.

Her name was mold.

Carelessness,

the palace was designed with mistakes.

The ventilation didn't work,

the roof leaked and it at high humidity.

After reflecting on it,

they decided to redo everything.

Absolutely everything.

They stripped the walls

and remove the marble.

Took out everything of value

literally threw millions

into the trash and began again.

But what turned out to be an extravagance

and a headache for Putin

gave us the chance to learn

more about the palace.

A lot of people were involved

and they gladly told us about

literally every square meter

of this grandiose possession.

Here, for example, is an Arboretum

where rare and unique

trees are collected, and for those plants

that are not comfortable

in such a climate outdoors,

they built a greenhouse covering an area

of 2500 square meters.

The plants and trees on the property

are constantly monitored

by about 40 gardeners.

Flying.

Further, there is apparently a wall

and shrubbery and indoor sculpture.

Sorry, we can't make a joke

about who they are.

Maybe a statue of patron Saint outs

and maybe Lyosha Miller.

With an envelope may be a bust

of the goddess of theft

or the sculpture of those women.

Further on is another

very important feature.

A church, not a temple

to the Ministry of Defence.

Of course it doesn't look very orthodox.

This looks like a bunch

of construction trailers.

Apparently workers liver.

Here we see a giant 80 meter bridge

in any Russian region.

This would be a big deal, but here it is.

Just needed for access to the China House

on the right we see two helipads.

Mount before there were three of them,

one has been removed and replaced

with a strange mount.

It has several entrances.

We tried for a long time to understand

what was inside,

but at some stage

there on satellite images

we saw the insides of this Moncton

on the second floor.

Rounded rectangles, 56 meters by 26,

it's a hockey rink really.

Why would anybody have a palace

if you can't play hockey?

Very interesting Lee

we are seeing in this

underground complex.

The owner's bunker mentality

for the first time,

he clearly likes to sit underground,

probably imagines himself

as a Hobbit guarding his gold

like a character

in the Lord of the Rings movie

The contractors confirmed to us

there is an ice palace

buried underground,

which is actually as tall

as a five story building.

A little shocked, we fly further.

Let's pan around a bit

and just did my other view

of which opens up from here.

Very beautiful.

Up until now, this could only be

appreciated from Putin's helicopter.

Now we can all see it too.

And why not?

We paid for it.

Let's fly back

and look at a couple more objects.

Here is a massive fence

to stop any thieves

escaping on the right.

The very building for which

the 80 metre bridge was built.

It's a guest house in the Chinese style

with an area of 27,000 square feet.

How do you access the beach?

Put on your swimming trunks and flippers,

but how to get down the Cliff?

And here there is a

special entrance to a tunnel

which was built by the people

who built the metro.

This is a unique design that allows you

not only to conveniently get to the sea,

but also to hide in case of war

or from an attack by the strange

inhabitants of challenge shake,

and this tunnel contains a small secret

which was revealed to us

by one of the builders of the palace.

Do you see some sort of door

look at this photo?

You can see a little better here.

This is a plan of the tunnels.

This my friends is

especially disguised section.

In fact, this is a huge window

from which you can have the best possible

views of the sea.

You can enjoy a glass of wine here,

and most importantly

for our nation's leader, it's

not some kind of balcony

where you are constantly in danger.

It's a safe underground place

where nothing threatens you.

Mr GTB Mitchell new graduate.

Usually in order

to go to see in any boats

whether it's an inflatable boat

or whether it's not, you need to follow

a simple procedure

to call the local border

office of the FSB

and notify them about

your plans by phone.

Pure formality.

You can usually go

fishing, swimming anywhere, but not here.

Good afternoon, yes, happy New Year.

Happy New Year to you.

Do you want to go past clinics

or just fish here in Pasco Vivika?

Well, we want to go from Shanghai

to Krizza.

Around that area,

then we have an important request.

Do you know I don't cope?

Is Headland sort of?

It's after Peru rock.

Yes, there is a large headland

after Peru Rock You will need to stay one

mile offshore by a male.

Yes, got it.

Was there an incident there?

No?

Well, it's just our request to you

to avoid this particular area by a mile.

Please keep your distance

when you go there and tell me please.

Is it always like this and

I don't Cope's or just some days

always I understand.

Do we need to get permission

from other department's from effetto?

Yes, of course.

Should it be in writing or by phone

to the duty officer, don't ask this.

We don't issue such permissions at all.

So because of Putin's dacha

or fishermen are simply audited

by positively open.

See by two kilometers

from the coast and all this

so that no one accidentally sees up close

what is being built there on this side.

Octobers, hedlund.

I.

Promised you that

we will visit Vladimir Putin

and we will give in now

despite the fact that no one invited us.

We will be helped

by one of the important contractors

who worked on the palace design.

He himself was so stunned and enraged

by the luxury interior

decor and crazy prices for furniture

that he sent us a detailed

architectural plan for this project.

Everything is detailed

here in the drawing from the actual floor

plan to individual items of furniture

and even the location

of electrical sockets.

We will literally be able

to visualize on video

with specific sofas.

Vladimir Putin is sitting on

what his bed is like,

what the table he eats.

It looks like.

Look here at the basement floor plan.

Here is a huge pool

spa area massage room, repetition,

some kind of jacuzzi, Turkish bath,

saunas, water fountains

and bathing pools.

In the pool you can get to the exterior

to replace market on.

The plan is in Akwa disco.

I honestly did not know

such a thing exists here.

Is this place on the planet here

is this photo of some type of fountain

where you can sit

and order drinks and believe me

this is not the biggest surprise

that is in store for us.

At Putin's dacha

it is perfectly fair for you to protest.

Yes you made it all up in yourself

to make these plans

and you are showing them to us now

and Putin at his next press

conference will declare as usual.

This is not an investigation,

it's the legalization of misinformation

from the American Special Services.

Before before we go on after

I must verify and prove everything

that I already told you, improve

the authenticity of these documents

in 2011 on the Internet,

several photos appeared

showing the interior of the palace

made by workers when his plans

were sent to us.

We ourselves took them

and began to compare them

with the available filters

to make sure that what's in front of us

is not affect the Aqua

disco and already showed you.

Here is a photo here.

It is on the plan, but OK,

you can see it from outside.

Let's look for something inside.

This filter explicitly

shows the dining room.

You can clearly see tables,

chairs and sideboards within length.

We can easily find this room on the plan.

Here is a dining room

according to the label

market on the plan.

Furniture is marked here

till three Latina

and like all other suppliers

this furniture is from a super exclusive

Italian furniture house

selling bespoke goods strictly to order.

Using Google items

like these are impossible to find.

So we wrote to factory and just ask them

to send us a catalog.

And while at the furniture

set in the catalog

looks exactly like this so table.

Chairs, sideboard,

everything is the same as in the footer,

trusting that architectural plans

are absolutely accurate.

We ordered a CGI rendering

and we created the entire interior

where there is a photo.

The reconstruction is 100%

true to the original, but

where there is no photo,

there may be slight differences

in details such as colors

or wallpaper patterns.

We entered the palace

by the main entrance.

Vladimir Putin imagines himself

to be the Russian emperor

and behaves accordingly.

The architect designed in Italian style

palaces specially for him,

an Italian style classic courtyard

with a fountain in the center,

surrounded by gallery's

as if we were not in jail in chiclet

in Bologna or Florence

from the courtyard, we go to this room

called the Fenian, that's its name.

Here we will see how similar

our reconstructions to the original photo

on the Internet we can check here.

See the columns.

Stucco chandeliers, murals.

They are 100% the same.

Here are the Golden Eagles.

Never too many of them

with ladimir Putin relaxing in this room.

Reading prompter must be remembered

as the master of which are the areas

where one of the most famous

from taking office inside

the palace was taken in Wicker relaxing.

Lying on the sofa

which later will be occupied

by this August body.

Be careful, the sofa is more expensive

than your apartment.

We leave the Athenian

as we need to visit many other places.

The doors on the right swing open

and we find ourselves in a marble foyer.

With a bar, this is like

what usually happens

before entering a theater

or concert hall,

and we guessed correctly,

rich people have home movie theaters,

but the President of Russia built

this house with a real theater

complete with a huge stage backstage

area, makeup rooms

and luxury imperial boxes.

I'm not kidding aside.

Putin's Palace is a full two story

theater auditorium.

The three audience boxes below can be

shielded with velvet curtains

in case the owner wants

to get more intimate

on the 2nd floor balconies with sofas.

Displaying Vladimir Putin's

loyalty to tradition.

Incised Russia, London is

built theatres and so on.

President is complete them too,

while ordinary Russians make themselves

comfortable to enjoy the game

show field of miracles

at the Palace Theater on the Black Sea,

the lights go down, the curtain rises,

and our national leader

indulges in more refined pleasures

on this objective exquisite pleasures.

Do you know what the

president is fond of?

You will never believe it.

He loves a hookah

he loves smoking a water pipe.

We will go to the room

on the floor plan marked.

Put the box.

It really looks like the best,

most expensive hookah bar in which color,

sofas, tables, dim lights, and ideal

ambience to discuss budget issues.

Lying among the soft pillows.

The President and his guests

can enjoy the show.

This horn is also equipped

with a small stage and an amazing thing.

There is a special,

smaller, elevating stage with the pool.

What can it be for a Christmas tree

maybe for a gigantic vamp?

Or maybe a show in support

of the Constitution.

If the hookah bar came as a surprise,

you will like this even more incaica

Kalashnikovs letter to Medvedev.

He stated that

there is a casino inside the palace,

but then no one took these words

seriously at the time

because it was impossible to imagine

that the President of Russia

would build a casino

in his own private house.

He's probably exaggerating

or embellishing.

But no, this huge private casino exists.

Proactive will produce motor now.

There is indeed a casino project

at this casino is not for ordinary

people from the street.

It was just for a private pastime.

Well, just to spend some time,

let's go into the private casino

of Ladimir Putin

their illegal in

the rest of the country, but not here.

You can play pretty soon.

And of course roulette.

I'm curious what snakes

they play for for sure.

Betting money does not interest them

most likely play

for state owned companies,

so don't be surprised

that all the national

wealth of the country belongs

to Putin's friends.

He probably just lost it all

to them in the casino.

In the casino

we make our way through

to the games room.

The first thing we notice

in the games room.

Our President likes

the simple entertainment

he likes to dance a dance machine

with a huge screen is installed there.

The rest of the room is filled

with slot machines, his own black.

See Las Vegas for a true patriot.

The rest of the room called

the whole of entertainments

as one armed bandit.

Standing next to chairs

costing $10,000 each

and here is probably the president

of Russia's favorite room,

the place where Putin outplays everyone.

There are no lumps, no

maps of military action,

but there are toy racing cars

for his little electric friends.

There is, especially in the size

of a one bedroom apartment.

He had on special tracks

the chief geopolitical strategist

with our time performs amazing

stunts, overtakes his rivals,

and invariably wins the big race.

A little embarrassed.

We go to the second floor

to the Holy of Holies,

the bedroom of our Commander-in-chief

and President of Russia,

Vladimir Vladimirovich, Putin.

No, I meant the word suite

would be more appropriate here.

Everything follows the best

aristocratic traditions.

You don't just open the door

and see the bed.

First comes a living room with Sofa

Danci parent Lee

to rest here before retiring.

Only from here.

You can get to the boudoir,

so we tiptoe inside.

Created for you darling.

Go.

Straight

on the word from spring to mind,

when you see all this code

velvet canopy's

as well as the ubiquitous flat screen TV

opposite the bed.

So he won't miss

the important news on channel one.

It was here near this chest of drawers

that this photo was taken,

so we're not the only ones to intrude

from the royal bedchamber.

You access another extremely

private living room,

probably even Saturn hasn't been here.

One more door and behind it is a wardrobe

and fluid you can get into the bathroom.

The bathroom where there are marble

columns around the Jacuzzi.

I don't know how many square meters

you need for a good night's sleep,

but in the challenge Chick Palace, 2800

square feet is the area

covered by the master bedrooms

over the past three years

by the most conservative estimates,

and considering the very incomplete data

that we have at our disposal,

we estimate at the palace

and vineyards have received

a total of $475 million.

The problem with this.

Is money which is being spent right now

on reconstruction as well

As for construction of the wineries

and the daily maintenance

of this huge estate.

And this is in addition

to the millions of dollars already

invested in the construction after 2017.

In a way, if you ask

how much the total cost

is of Putin's palace, liegel and shake.

In the end.

The answer to this

question is hard to know

because such projects

with tunnels carved

into the rock

and underground hockey rinks

don't just come up for sale.

But we can estimate the minimum cost.

Explorer missed.

The amount of money

which was spent on it in total,

is it a minimum $1.5 billion?

That's why we call it

the world's biggest bribe.

Putin's friends who received from him

the right to steal from Russia

anything they want have thanked him

many times over.

But in particular they chipped in.

They collected $1.5 billion

and built a palace for their boss with.

This money the.

Great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy,

once very clearly describe

the nature of power in Russia.

The villains who robbed

the people gathered together,

recruited soldiers

and judges to guard their OG

and now are feasting.

This brilliant quote

still precisely describes

what is happening in our country.

The villains robbed,

the people, recruited judges.

The Federal Security Service

and FSB officers to guard their palaces.

While they themselves sit playing

in their personal casinos surrounded

by wives, mistresses and children,

and they will never

voluntarily leave power,

and then the grandchildren grow up

when everyone knows

such colossal appetites

and this is only put

in this Med via different

all the other ministers base limitless,

the rothenberg's, the Kovel hooks

that I'm chancos they will never go back,

they will steal more

and more until they ruin

the whole country.

Russia is still selling oil,

gas, metals, fertilizers.

Timber in huge quantities, yet

people's incomes keep falling and falling

because Putin has a palace and carb.

Ivan krivanek.

Every minor official

also has his own palace

in his own car, Beaver.

We will only live normally

when we stop tolerating

officials who steal

and then we re elect them

and if they refuse to hold free

and fair elections

then we will take to the streets

and remove them from power.

This is what differentiates

poor countries from rich ones

in rich countries

at the slightest indignation

people take to the streets.

Officials fear of this import countries

people tolerate this, and officials

hold referenda to renew their powers.

They say, well, wait a little more.

Only held power for 20 years

and you see what they do every day.

New laws prohibiting

criticism of the authorities.

All branded dissatisfied foreign agents.

People are prohibited

already to even campaign

for their chosen candidates

in the elections

and for criticising United Russia.

Putin and his gang of thieves

want lifelong unfettered power.

We have reached the point

where this is no longer

a group of people who love the state,

but the state itself has turned

into an instrument of theft.

The address showing

National Guard protects the palaces

judges jail protestors.

A group of murderers

has been created within the FSB,

whose task is just to kill

those who refuse to be silent.

But the good news is

that there are still many more of us

Putin and everyone who guards him

steals for him who fake elections

for him.

A several 100,000 people maximum,

but there are dozens of millions of us

we do not yet believe in our strength.

If everyone who watches

this video shares it.

We will rip censorship to shreds

if 10% of those who are

dissatisfied protest,

they will not dare to falsify elections.

If each of us registers

and participates in smart voting,

then Putin's party

of theft and degradation.

United Russia will lose the elections.

Political competition will begin

in the quality of politics and officials

who are gradually improved, fair

courts and honest prosecutors will come

stealing on such a scale as we have now.

Will become impossible and step by step

we will begin to live better

and richer lives.

All we have to do is stop accepting this.

Stop waiting.

Stop wasting your life

and your taxes on enriching these people.

Our future is in our hands.

Do not be silent.

Do not agree to a babies

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