“Nothing shameful”: Peskov commented on the video with officials singing in a business jet

Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov did not find anything incriminating in the video in which four former officials, led by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, drink and sing to Nadezhda Kadysheva on board a business jet.

Quote. “There is nothing wrong with this, the main thing is not to break any rules,” Peskov answered a question from RBC. He added that employees of the apparatus, including former ones, are not prohibited from meeting together in an informal setting. How the video got online is “hard to say,” Peskov said.

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Read more. Yesterday, Baza published a video in which Dvorkovich and former press secretary of Dmitry Medvedev Natalya Timakova, Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev and head of government protocol Marina Entaltseva drink on board an unknown business jet and sing in chorus Nadezhda Kadysheva’s song “Ah, my destiny, destiny "

It is unknown when, where and on whose plane the former officials flew. None of those caught in the video commented on what happened. According to an acquaintance of one of the heroes of the video, with whom The Bell spoke, the video was recorded about three years ago . At that time, all its participants still held high positions in the government.

Context. In 2011, Novaya Gazetawrote in detail about what kind of planes Russian officials fly. Then, in response to a request from the publication, Dvorkovich said that he “flies on regular flights of Russian and foreign airlines.” In other cases, the former Deputy Prime Minister used “passing flights.” In his response, Dvorkovich emphasized that for private trips he rented planes from the Moscow Sky company at his own expense.

• Novaya Gazeta wrote that many civil servants and managers of state-owned companies used aircraft of the carrier Airfix Aviation, which serviced aircraft of subsidiaries of Rosneft, Gazprom and Transneft. According to the publication, Igor Sechin and Arkady Dvorkovich used the services of this company, and Gennady Timchenko was directly related to the board of the company. In 2014, the businessman’s Volga Group sold it to Airfix Aviation.
• Two Bell sources close to the former Deputy Prime Minister said that Dvorkovich uses business jets affiliated with Gazprom structures.
• Back in 2018, the vocalists caught on video declared their property and income as officials. None of the declarations of ex-civil servants contain business jets.

Anton Baev