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The revelation from Navalny’s team, the tsar’s opponent who died in prison: heliport, private pier, white artificial beaches, 240-metre bedrooms, 50-metre bathrooms
A dream villa, perched on a Crimean cliff overlooking the Sea of Azov, a few kilometers south of Sevastopol. A building worth over 100 million euros whose owner is said to be Vladimir Putin. This is what the team of Aleksei Navalny, the opponent of the tsar who died in a Siberian prison in February 2024, claims in a long video investigation in which dozens of photographs and documents are presented.
Il complex at Cape Aya it was originally built for former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. In 2014, Moscow illegally occupied Crimea and Yanukovych was ousted and fled to Russia. At that time the mansion was seized by the Russian authorities and it should have been converted into a sanatorium, but instead it would have ended up in Putin’s hands.
The main residence measures 9,000 square meters, while a second building, closer to the sea, measures almost 5,000 square meters. From satellite photos you can see a private pier and an artificial white sand beach, while a heliport is located higher up. As for the interiors, Navalny’s team claims that they are “sumptuous” even by the Russian president’s standards: two master double bedrooms, measuring 240 square meters each, each with a 50 square meter private bathroom.
Bathrooms that are a golden triumph: golden jacuzzis which are entered with golden ladders (including handrails), alternatively flower-shaped bathtubs costing 32 thousand euros each. In all, furnishing each of the main bathrooms would cost around 120 thousand euros. There is also a room reserved for a woman, and two smaller ones for two children. They would be reserved for Alina Kabaeva, a former gymnast and longtime lover of Putin, and their two sons aged 10 and 6, Ivan and Vladimir jr.
The other gem is the private hospitalto which an entire floor is dedicated. With an operating room equipped with the best German and Finnish equipment, dental office, ultrasound machines, and the much-loved cryochamber. Entertainment cannot be missing, with a small 8-seater cinema room.
According to Navalny’s team, everything would have been financed by the clique of oligarchs close to the tsar, the same one who would have supported the costs of the Kremlin man’s other nabob residences. Ownership is distributed among a series of fictitious companies traced back to the same oligarchs. The investigation ends with a question: «Putin and his friends have stolen so much in a quarter of a century that it is no longer possible to spend it. Why does he need another palace? How many buildings can a man need?”.
January 1, 2026
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