Death in trenches for Putin's imperial plans is not for all in Russia. Relatives of the Russian authoritative elite avoid the army and spend most of their time abroad, only now they are more ashamed and hiding it.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Pieskov asked the tenant owner of the Wagner Evgeny Prigozhyn Group to take his boy to the front. Nikolai Pieskov was expected to hit Ukraine as a simple artilleryman and spend six months there. Upon his return, the boy of Vladimir Putin's closest associate told the Komsomol fact that he had participated in the fights and deserved even the medal “For Courage”.
However, the war stories of young Piesk rise doubts. The Telegram reported that Tesla X, who belonged to him, received tickets in Moscow at a time erstwhile he allegedly was on the front. The boy of a Cremol spokesperson from his first matrimony was known for driving a harsh and irregular car even erstwhile he lived in London for the last decade.
Nikolai Pieskov was celebrated for his accident last year, when, after the announcement of the mobilization in Russia, his co-workers Alexey Navalny called him, claiming to be officials of the military commission. Doskov then told them that his place was not on the front. So possibly the current image operation is simply to show that the children of the elite are besides fighting.
New aristocracy
33-year-old Nikolai Pieskov is simply a typical typical of the golden youth, children of the Russian authoritative or business elite. They have akin résumés and programmed by parents "the career path". At the age of a twelve (sometimes even earlier) they leave abroad. They spend their youth in the best schools and colleges in the UK, USA, Switzerland, little frequently in France or Germany. They spend more time abroad than Russia.
Some, especially if they plan their careers in administration and services, postgraduate from 1 of the prestigious Russian universities, forge of state staff: Moscow State Institute of global Relations (MGIMO), Diplomatic Academy, FSB Academy, Petersburg University of Economy and Finance, and Moscow University of Management.
If they are yet appearing in Moscow after the age of 30, it is mainly to take on intranet positions in state companies. Very seldom below board level or higher management positions. Sometimes, like Dmitri Patrushev, the boy of 1 of Putin's most crucial sidekicks from safety matters and long-term head of the FSB Nikolai Patrushev, they land on a ministerial position. The younger Patruszew became Minister of Agriculture.
War should theoretically be an obstacle to their life plans. Especially for those younger ones who are inactive at the education phase abroad, or in an episode of hoarding life and learning the taste of the light-handed millions. due to the fact that it is not appropriate to flaunt life on the hostile West erstwhile ordinary, young Russians die on the front. Yet, as it turns out, the Putinian fresh aristocracy does not like to quit its habits.
Continuing Vacation
A period ago Ukrainian fact journalists tracked down Svetlana Ivanova, a erstwhile wife of Russian defence minister, Timur Ivanov in the celebrated French Alpine hotel Courchavel. Ukrainian journalists fishy that Ivan's divorce may have been fictional. It took place last year, around the time erstwhile the minister responsible, among others, for buying for the Russian army was on the list of Western sanctions. His wife couldn't travel abroad freely.
In turn, 2 daughters of Alexey Kriworuczko, Deputy Minister of Defence of Russia, have American citizenship or the right to it. They were born in Miami, where the minister's wife frequently travels. Krivoruczko himself is subject to sanctions and will not go to the US.
“The masks have been dropped and it is clear to us that the NATO block is conducting a hybrid war against Russia and Belarus,” said Sergei Naryszkin, Head of abroad Intelligence Service last year.
At the same time, the daughter of the chief of intelligence traveled on vacations to Turkey, Italy, Greece – or possibly NATO enemy states.
The Duke of Szojgu, daughter of Defence Minister Sergei Szojgu, is simply a small more cautious. Until now, at least she has not boasted about her Instagram holidays in Europe or the US, but only in Dubai. Instagram and another social media supply thousands of sweet vacation photos of members of the Russian elite's families.
- Ah, how beautiful, what's the name of the island? – they ask in the commaries under a photograph with a vacation view of Julia's friends, wife Sergey Matwijenko.
His parent Valentina Matvijenko, president of the Federation Council, is 1 of the closest adjuncts of Putin and organizer of, among others, para-elections in Russia. The commented view was just from Maldives, from a hotel where the day costs 3 1000 euros.
War brings shame
For a young elite outside Russia, specified sums spent regular are small. Most of them have shares in companies associated with prokremlów oligarchs providing intra-state services. They supply millions of income for carefree lives. It's a kind of feudal pension. It's like the dividend that the Russian aristocracy utilized to draw from land in the days of the Czaric Empire.
Some time ago, a younger generation of Russian nomenclature played and taught in the West with full support from the state and did not gotta hide it. Before Vladimir Zirinowski died last April, he had to know that his granddaughters went to TASIS – an American school in Switzerland, 1 of the most elite schools for the planet elite. Apparently, Zyrinski saw nothing incorrect with him in Russia throwing thunders at the US and winning the West atomic war, and his grandchildren are learning from American teachers.
A decade ago, the Kremlin powerfully promoted the thought of elite education abroad. Vladimir Jakunin, 1 of the prominent Putinian nomenklatur oligarchs (he was for a decade, until 2015, president of the Russian railways), even came up with the thought of building a foundation that would send the best students of Moscow State University to the most prestigious Western universities. The sons of Jakunin studied at specified universities: the London School of Economics and business directions of American Columbia. Jakunin is poorly suited to advance abroad education – he is on the list of sanctions and is banned from entering a number of Western countries.
However, it is increasingly hard for Putin’s relatives to hide abroad warships. Many of them simply like to live in Miami, London, or the Azure Coast alternatively than Moscow, let alone Krasnojarsk.
Wives and grown-up children go to the West while they can, due to the fact that they haven't hit the punishment lists yet. They besides fulfil crucial household responsibilities. For all nomenclatura clan has hidden assets abroad. Real estate, companies and bank accounts. present hunted by Western peculiar and Financial Services. All the more demanding peculiar care from owners: contacts with law firms, direct talks, fast transactions. Relatives of Putin's ministers and generals besides deal with this. All the more reason they effort to stay anonymous.
But it doesn't always work. There are paparazzi behind those more famous. This was the case for Daniel Solovyov, boy of the leading Russian Jew, propagandaist Vladimir Solovyov. His photos of events at London gay clubs were in The Sun Boulevard. Twenty-one-year-old Danish is simply a model and an artist. My father was furious and assured that my boy was in Moscow, not London. He did not mention to the fact that his boy was not on the front, as were many of his peers, whom he sends to war millions in his propaganda tirades.
Michał Kacewicz / belsat.eu
