Peskov's daughter got an internship at the European Parliament

Elizaveta Peskova, daughter of the press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov, works in the European Parliament as an intern for the far-right French politician Aymeric Choprade, found out European Radio Liberty . It is possible that European taxpayers pay her, the newspaper notes.

Upd. “Here we are talking about an ordinary student and ordinary practice ... This applies to my daughter, this does not apply to my official duties and my work,” Peskov himself commented on the news about his daughter’s internship on Tuesday, February 26.

More. The name of Elizaveta Peskova is on the official page of MEP Choprada on the website of the European Parliament. She is a trainee.

• Shoprad, an author of books on geopolitics, considers Putin's rise to power in Russia the most important geopolitical event since the collapse of the USSR. He supported the annexation of Crimea to Russia in 2014.
• Peskova really “is the daughter of an important person in Russia” and enjoys the full rights of an intern. She does not work in Russia either for the state or for a private company, “accordingly, there is no conflict of interest in the performance of my mandate as an MEP,” says the French politician.
• Choprade's colleagues consider the internship to be Peskova's negligence, a violation of safety standards, "a shameful stain on the reputation of the European Parliament" or even "the Kremlin's hand in its very heart."
• Choprad is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Defense Subcommittee. Peskova, as an intern, has access to the buildings of the European Parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg and to most committee meetings.
• Interns in the European Parliament, as a rule, receive a salary from the funds of their MP, and therefore from the pockets of European taxpayers.
• Whether Peskova receives a salary is not clear. Her representative was unable to confirm Peskova's work in the European Parliament.

Details. Elizaveta Peskova is the eldest daughter of Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov. She is 21.

Back in 2017, she worked as an adviser to the president of the Avanti business association, Umar Dzhabrailov. After Dzhabrailov was detained in August 2017 for shooting at the former Moskva Hotel near the Kremlin, Peskova removed references to Avanti from her accounts .

According to FBK , Peskova has 25% in the Paris apartment of her mother, Peskov's first wife, worth 1.7 million euros. The Navalny Foundation claimed that Peskov bought the apartment, Putin's press secretary replied that this was slander.

Now Instagram Peskova has an eyeliner “Moscow - Paris - Brussels”.

Sergei Smirnov