"Rain": Putin in Karelia has a secret cottage

Russian President Vladimir Putin is resting in protected mansions in Karelia, which are located in the sections of the Prime company businessmen Yuri and Boris Kovalchukov. This is stated in the investigation of the journalists of the Rain TV channel Rodion Chepel and Maria Zholobova.

From 2010 to 2013, Prime LLC, according to the television channel, bought 140 hectares of land next to the island of Valaam in the territory of the Ladoga Shchera planned National Park. There, the company rented another 290 hectares of forest.

According to the "rain", Putin came there more than once to rest. The channel refers to three sources - a representative of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, a businessman, as well as an employee of the company who made out the interior of one of the mansions.

Locals "unambiguously associate" a residence with the Russian president, the authors of the investigation note. However, documentary evidence of Putin’s visit to Karelia could not be found in Karelia.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to answer the question of the residence.

A number of residences in Russia are associated with Putin's name. In 2010, scandalous fame receivedconstruction at Cape Idokopos near Gelengik . Businessman Sergei Kolesnikov, Putin's St. Petersburg partner, said that a villa is being built on the Black Sea shore for a mining prime minister worth $ 1 billion. Formally, the hotel complex was supposed to belong to Nikolai Shamalov, who, like Putin, was once a co-founder of the famous country cooperative "Lake". According to him, Russian businessmen donated money for construction, including Shamalov and shareholder of the Russian Bank, Dmitry Gorelov. According to Kolesnikov, it was originally planned to send donations from Russian businessmen to purchase medical equipment for St. Petersburg clinics, but then it was decided to use them for the construction of the Putin Palace.

In early March 2011, it was reported that the entrepreneur Alexander Ponomarenko, a business partner, another Putin’s neighbor on Lake Arkady Rotenberg, was bought by an object under construction. According to Kolesnikov, the transfer of ownership of a person whose biography is less connected with Putin, only a disguise, and the purpose of the complex will not change.