What newspaper described a man who says Villa Sellgren is owned by Vladimir Putin as "the man Vladimir Putin fears most"
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Villa Sellgren Villa Sellgren is a house and estate on Lodochny Island in the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea. It was designed by the Finnish architect Uno Ullberg and completed in 1913. The house was a location used in the shooting of a Russian version of Arthur Conan Doyle's "His Last Bow" in 1986. It was part of national forest reserves until 2012 when it was rezoned to allow construction. According to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the house is owned by Vladimir Putin through friends.
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Alexei Navalny Alexei Anatolievich Navalny (Russian: Алексе́й Анато́льевич Нава́льный , ] ; born June 4, 1976) is a Russian lawyer, political and financial activist, and politician. Since 2009, he has gained prominence in Russia, and in the Russian and international media, as a critic of corruption and of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has organized large-scale demonstrations promoting democracy and attacking political corruption, Putin, and Putin's political allies; he has run for a political office on the same platform. In 2012, "The Wall Street Journal" described him as "the man Vladimir Putin fears most".
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Aleksey Kochetkov Aleksey Vladimirovich Kochetkov (Russian: Алексей Владимирович Кочетков ; born 8 September 1971). Aleksey Kochetkov is a former engineer and political analyst well known for his closeness to official Russian policy under President Putin. He has often written in support Russia's occupation of Georgia, and also in support of pro-Moscow conspiracy theories in his book "Neo-nazis and Maidan".
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Yegor Yakovlev Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev (Яковлев, Егор Владимирович ; 14 March 1930 – 18 September 2005) was one of the founders of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin's policy of "glasnost", and one of the most respected Russian journalists.
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Viktor Medvedchuk Viktor Volodymyrovych Medvedchuk (Ukrainian: Віктор Володимирович Медведчук ; born 7 August 1954 in Krasnoyarsk, Russian SFSR, USSR) is a Ukrainian politician, lawyer, and business oligarch. Currently Medvedchuk is chairman of the pro-Russian political organization "Ukrainian Choice" and an opponent of Ukraine joining the European Union. Russian president Vladimir Putin is the godfather of Medvedchuk's daughter Darina (born in 2004). Medvedchuk and his party have marginal popular support in Ukraine.
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Vladimir Danchev Vladimir Danchev was a newscaster at Soviet radio in Moscow, who is famous for calling on the Afghan people to resist the Soviet invasion of their country on 23 May 1983. His controversial encouragement of armed resistance against the Russian military outraged many of his countrymen. However, according to the American political analyst Noam Chomsky and other commentators, his principal transgression was that he embarrassed the Soviet government by contradicting their official ideology, by describing the presence of Soviet forces in Afghanistan as an “invasion.” According to the party line, Russia was not invading Afghanistan; it was defending the Afghan people against terrorists who were funded by foreign sources (the USSR was referring to the Mujahedin and the CIA). Danchev was subsequently sent to a psychiatric hospital and returned to work in December 1983. He was praised in the U.S. media as a hero of free speech and free thought. Danchev was of Russian and Bulgarian descent and grew up in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR.
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Evgeny Lebedev Evgeny Alexandrovich Lebedev (/iev'geniː.'lɛbɛdɛv/ ; Russian Cyrillic: Евгений Александрович Лебедев; born 8 May 1980) is the Russian British owner of Lebedev Holdings Ltd, which owns the "Evening Standard", the "Independent", and the TV channel London Live. He is also a journalist, supporter of the arts and charity campaigner.
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Vladimir Meshchersky Prince Vladimir Petrovich Meshchersky (11 January 1839 – 23 July 1914) was a Russian journalist and novelist.
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Ivan Savvidis Ivan Ignatyevich Savvidis (born 27 March 1959 in Santa Gruzino, Tsalka District, Georgia), is a Greek-Russian (Caucasus Greek) businessman and politician. Savvidis is one of Russia's wealthiest men and was a member of the Russian Parliament, closely linked to the president Vladimir Putin.
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Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Дми́триевич Набо́ков ; 21 July 1870 – 28 March 1922) was a Russian criminologist, journalist, and progressive statesman during the last years of the Russian Empire. He was the father of Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov. He was murdered in Berlin on 28 March 1922 by far-right Russian monarchists.
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Mikhail Lesin Mikhail Yuriyevich Lesin (Russian: Михаил Юрьевич Лесин; July 11, 1958 – November 5, 2015 ) was a Russian political figure, media executive and an adviser to president Vladimir Putin. In 2006 he was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", one of Russia's highest state decoration for civilians. Mikhail Lesin was nicknamed the Bulldozer (Russian: Бульдозер ) because of his ability to get virtually all Russian media outlets under The Kremlin's control.
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Surkov leaks In October 2016, Ukrainian hacker group CyberHunta leaked over a gigabyte of emails and other documents alleged to belong to Russian political operative and senior Kremlin official Vladislav Surkov. Known as Russia's "grey cardinal", Surkov serves as a political adviser to President Vladimir Putin and is the architect of Russia's ideology of sovereign democracy.
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Richard Gott Richard Willoughby Gott (born 28 October 1938, Aston Tirrold, England) is a British journalist and historian. A former Latin America correspondent and features editor for the British newspaper "The Guardian", he is known for his radical politics and a connection to Che Guevara. He resigned from "The Guardian" in 1994 after claims that he had been a Soviet 'agent of influence', a tag Gott denied, although he admitted taking money from the KGB.
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Sergey Peskov Sergey Nikolaevich Peskov is a Soviet-Russian diplomat who served as the Russian Ambassador to Pakistan from 2005 to 2009, and the current Russian Ambassador to Oman. He is the father of Dmitry Peskov who has been the Press Secretary for the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
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Rozhdestveno Memorial Estate The Rozhdestveno Memorial Estate is a writer's house museum and park near Siverskaya, Gatchinsky District, Leningrad Oblast, that commemorates the most famous owner of the estate, Vladimir Nabokov; the Batovo and Vyra estates, also immortalized by Nabokov, are nearby. As Nabokov spent part of his youth at Vyra, he visited his grandmother at Batovo and his uncle at Rozhdestveno. The Batovo mansion burned down in 1925, Vyra was destroyed in 1944, leaving Rozhdestveno as the sole survivor of the triad of estates owned by the Nabokov family.
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Vladimír Železný Vladimír Železný (born 3 March 1945 in Samara, Soviet Union) is a media businessman and politician in the Czech Republic. He was the first CEO of TV NOVA, a popular Czech television station and was a member of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2009. As a media mogul with political influence, he has been compared to Rupert Murdoch and Silvio Berlusconi.
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Ture Malmgren Ture Robert Ferdinand Malmgren (7 June 1851 – 3 August 1922) was a Swedish journalist, book publisher, and municipal politician. A prominent figure in his home Uddevalla, Malmgren became a colourful and well-known part of the city's history through, among other things, his long-lasting ownership of the newspaper "Bohusläningen" (English: "The Bahusian" ), work in the local political scene, eccentric and extravagant lifestyle, and faux-medieval Tureborg Castle.
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Sergey Parkhomenko Sergey Borisovich Parkhomenko (Russian: Серге́й Бори́сович Пархо́менко , born March 13, 1964) is a Russian publisher, journalist and political commentator.
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Alexander Smolensky Alexander Pavlovich Smolensky (Russian: Алексáндр Пáвлович Смолéнский ) (born July 6, 1954) was the founder and president of one of the largest private banks in Russia - "Bank Stolichny" (later known as SBS/AGRO) which collapsed in the 1998 Russian financial crisis wiping out its investors' savings. When asked what he owed his investors he replied: "dead donkey ears". In 1999, Russian prosecutors issued a warrant for his arrest including charges of embezzlement and money laundering. This warrant, however, was later dropped. He currently controls the newspapers "Kommersant" and "Novaya Gazeta".
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Aleksandr Dugin Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ге́льевич Ду́гин ; born 7 January 1962) is a Russian political analyst, known for his fascist views, who calls to hasten the "end of times" with all-out war. He has close ties with the Kremlin and the Russian military, having "served as an advisor to State Duma speaker Gennadiy Seleznyov and key member of the ruling United Russia party Sergei Naryshkin. However, commentators dispute his influence: in the words of journalist Alexander Nevzorov, "if we had had Sergey Kurginyan and Dugin instead of Putin, there would have been hell for all of us to pay, they would have unleashed a European and World War without a shadow of a doubt, without considering consequences at all." But "Dugin and Kurginyan do not have the slightest impact on what is going on in the Kremlin and do not even get coaching there". Dugin was the leading organizer of the National Bolshevik Party, National Bolshevik Front, and Eurasia Party. He is the author of more than 30 books, among them "Foundations of Geopolitics" (1997) and "The Fourth Political Theory" (2009).
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Aleksey Galkin Alexey Viktorovich Galkin (Russian: Алексей Викторович Галкин ) is a former Russian GRU officer. A senior lieutenant of the GRU, Alexei Galkin said, whilst being tortured by Chechen separatists, commanded by Abu Movsaev, that the apartment bombing in Buynaksk were organized by a team of twelve GRU officers and ordered by GRU director Valentin Korabelnikov The interview of Galkin was conducted by journalist Robert Young Pelton,who was also interviewing Abu Movsaev, who wrote about it in his book "Hunter, Hammer, Heaven, Dangerous Journeys Through Three Worlds Gone Mad". Galkin later escaped from Chechen separatists and stated that he was tortured to produce this confession
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Vladimir Yakovlev (journalist) Vladimir Egorovich Yakovlev (Russian: Владимир Егорович Яковлев , born March 8, 1959) is a founder and an editor-in-chief of the "Kommersant Newspaper", the first Russian daily business-oriented newspaper. He is a former CEO and owner of Kommersant Publishing house. Yakovlev is considered to be one of the creators of the Post-Soviet format of Russian journalism.