"Putin's palace. History of world's largest bribe" (narrated by man with world's largest balls)

[Lovegan]

Putin's palace. History of world's largest bribe

The dialogue is in Russian, but YouTube subtitles/CC translation works well. It goes into so much detail, it's almost tedious, but still interesting and entertaining.

[Mike 03]

1. Highly recommended.

This documentary is a stunning and inspiring act of resistance, by a heroic figure whose current condition and future should be of great concern to us.

I watched it yesterday and plan on watching it again today. Sometimes, the amount of information divulged in the narration is overwhelming, though it is often accompanied by organizational charts. Still, it is a lot to digest. There is some help from Wikipedia on this, especially the chart under the "Financing" section:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Palace

Here is a compilation of images from the "Residence at Cape Idokopas."

https://www.google.com/search?q=Residence+at+Cape+Idokopas&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj32-ziv6_uAhXbPH0KHeqABtwQ_AUoAnoECAsQBA&biw=1164&bih=796

[Lovegan]

2. Putin's palace was previously exposed in Navalny's Livejournal years ago

https://navalny-en.livejournal.com/9155.html

Interesting how it took a well produced documentary to make it go globally viral.

Navalny is calling for protests at city centers around Russia on Saturday afternoon.

Authorities said the protests are unauthorized and illegal.

I don't have a good feeling about this in the short term.

[highplainsdem]

3. Started watching it this afternoon. Have watched only about 40 minutes so far, but

even that first third covers a lot of background on Putin's corruption and drone views of his obscenely lavish palace and all the security (as well as the huge plot of land) around it.

Kudos to Navalny and those working with him.

[dalton99a]

4. Over 75 million views

[JonLP24]

5. K&R

Sorry for the duplicate.

[smirkymonkey]

6. Very interesting. Just watched bits and pieces. Pardon my naivety, but how did

Navalny get all this information and why on earth did he go back to Russia?

That palace is such a monstrosity. He's even tackier than Trump. No wonder they admire each other so much. Ugh! What is it with mega-rich dictators and "strongmen" and their hideously bad decorating sense?