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Raging Putin blames gossiping friends of gymnast lover for leaking details of their lavish lifestyle, claims ‘insider’
FURIOUS Vladimir Putin has blamed his gymnast lover’s friends for leaking details of their plush lifestyle, so-called Kremlin insiders claim.
The tyrant’s secret life with Alina Kabaeva, 39, was this week exposed – revealing the gold £100 million mansion near Moscow she is alleged to live in with their kids.
Putin is claimed to have blamed Alina Kabaeva’s friends for leaking details of their lavish lifestyle[/caption]
Kabaeva is thought to be living on Putin’s vast country estate in Lake Valdai[/caption]
Pictures of the 13,000 sq ft mansion show its luxurious interiors, said to have been inspired by Putin’s love for his hometown of St Petersburg and its eighteenth-century Hermitage Museum.
The Russian leader is believed to have bought the grand property on Lake Valdai for Olympic rhythmic gymnast Kabaeva using a slush fund in Cyprus, Russian investigative site The Project claimed.
Telegram channel General SVR – which claims to be fed information by a Kremlin insider – alleges the revelations sparked a row between him a Kalaeva.
The channel claimed raging Putin blamed Kalaeva’s gossiping pals for the leak.
It said: “Putin said that he had 100 per cent information that the leak came from Kabaeva’s circle of friends
“They say that no one has ever seen the president so furious.”
According to the channel, the fuming dictator said her friends talk “on every corner about everything they know and don’t know”.
Pictures of the mansion were leaked to The Project by a construction executive who worked around the house until 2005.
Gilded chairs can be seen arranged around a glass table and a spherical chandelier, with golden leaves hanging from the ceiling, in another photo.
According to the contractor, guests were encouraged to reach out and take one of the golden leaves.
A construction company owned by Yuri Kovalchuk, the businessman known as “Putin’s banker,” is said to have carried out the work on the mansion which was completed in 2020.
In another picture, a massive chandelier seemingly decorated with rubies can be seen.
Kabaeva’s property is said to be just half a mile from Valdai, Putin’s heavily-guarded and private residence.
Unnamed officials claimed they had spotted kids on the premises and satellite images taken between 2016 and 2020 showed a playground in the woods, which is believed to have been built for the family.
The ex-gymnast is alleged to have a secret family with Putin – which she had denied.
The area has also been frequented by Kabaeva’s distant female relatives, who are described as her chaperones in leaked train manifests.
The chaperones are said to own properties in the area.
Reports about the existence of the villa first emerged in 2021 by the team of Alexei Navalny, the jailed Russian opposition leader, who said that budget funds were used to lease the property from Kovalchuk.
Both Putin and Kabaeva have repeatedly denied they are in a relationship.
The vast estate in Lake Valdai is some 250 miles north west of Moscow[/caption]
Unnamed officials who have attended Putin’s private parties say they have never seen the two together but are in no doubt they do have a relationship, claiming that only top-ranking officers in Putin’s security detail are aware of their arrangement.
Another sign of their closeness came in 2014 when Kabaeva was appointed to head Russia’s National Media Group, a vast media holding by Kovalchuk, even though she had no relevant experience.
The post provides her with an annual income of around £8.6m.
It is unclear if she still holds the post.
The Project’s investigation drew on documents provided by an unnamed whistleblower who was described as an executive in the “business empire of one of the president’s closest friends” and was directly involved in managing a Cyprus-based company used as a slush-fund for the president.
It’s claimed the whistleblower got in contact with the site as he was outraged by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and said the Russian regime “must be stopped”.
Documents seen by The Project are said to reveal how Putin’s close friends and their companies were pouring money into Ermira, the Cypriot company, which was later used to purchase the luxury estate and provide for the needs of Putin and his family.
Putin was also accused of racking up profits from the sale of a vodka brand named after him which went on the market in the early 2000s.
Property rights to the vodka are said to have been repeatedly transferred between his childhood friend Arkady Rotenberg and the Cypriot company.
According to estimates by The Project, the vodka sales alone would have earned Putin at least half a million dollars between 2004 and 2019.
Kabaeva has been revealed as the owner of a number of other luxury properties in Russia, including a luxury penthouse in Sochi on the Black Sea, which is thought to be the largest apartment in Russia.
When the apartment was briefly for sale, 3D visualisations available online revealed its opulent interiors, including a dining room with marble floors and walls and gilded bannister rails on the stairs between the floors.
Kabaeva’s properties were registered under the name of her relatives, including her elderly grandmother.
Neither Putin nor Kabaeva have spoken publicly about their relationship[/caption]
Kabaeva performing at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000[/caption]
Elden Ring Finally Gets Some Cool Toys of Melina, Raging Wolf and Vyke
Bandai Namco sent us some of the first Elden Ring action figures, the S.H. Figuarts Festering Fingerprint Vyke and super-deformed Figuarts Minis of Melina and Raging Wolf. Vyke will run you around $75, while the Minis are both $30. A variety of toy and collectible sites have had them up for pre-order for a while, and will likely start shipping soon.
Vyke, who appears as an NPC invader in-game and whose armor is being worn by the Tarnished on Elden Ring’s box art, includes his war spear, a fire effect to recreate the frenzyflame thrust attack, and four interchangeable pairs of hands (one pair of first, one pair open, and two pairs for holding the spear at different angles.) Data-miners have dug up unused assets that suggest Vyke originally had a much larger role in Elden Ring’s story, but currently, the game’s cover model and first official action figure feature a random dude who jumps you outside an abandoned church.
Melina and Raging Wolf each include one interchangeable arm – Melina’s is outstretched, Wolf’s is holding a sword. Though the Minis are articulated, the proportions and sculpted clothing make posing pretty limited. They unclude small stands though, which are necessary for displaying purposes on account of the toys’ enormous heads.
Weirdly, these are the first FromSoft characters to get the Figuarts treatment, despite it being a Bandai Namco toy line. There are a variety of Dark Souls collectibles from other manufacturers, and Bloodborne, Sekiro and Demon’s Souls have all gotten Figma action figures. Figma and Nendoroid both have some Elden Ring figures in the works, but hopefully we see more from S.H. Figuarts as well.
Some of us, however, couldn’t wait a whole year for Elden Ring toys, and decided to take matters into our own hands before the game was even out:
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I found raging note blasting my parking but it wasn’t even that bad – everyone’s saying the same thing
A WOMAN found a raging note blasting her parking that “wasn’t even that bad” – and everyone’s saying the same thing.
Nailea Herna had pulled into a spot in a parking building, left for a while and returned to find a piece of paper on her car.
It was folded in half, with tape on the side, and had bold, upper-case letters scribbled inside.
But, it was the words that shocked Nailea.
It read: “You park like a jack a**.”
The raging driver went on to tell her to “choke”.
However, Nailea was in disbelief as she didn’t think her parking was bad enough to warrant such a reaction.
Her car’s front lefthand tyre was only just sitting on the white line – but not over into another space.
She took to Tiktok to share her confusion – and everyone agreed with her.
Over the video she wrote: “So someone left this note in my car.
“Come on my parking wasn’t that bad.”
People raced to the comments – all in agreeance.
One person wrote: “Wow, it definitely wasn’t bad.”
And others commented: “That’s not bad.”
One woman even joked: “Damn that person should see how I park.”
It’s not uncommon for people to take to other people’s cars with raging notes.
A rude resident recently divided opinion after using glue to stick an angry message to a car in a row over parking.
Another woman took to social media after finding a “rude” note taped to her car accusing her of parking like an “absolute inconsiderate tosspot”.
And, one man who found a raging message on his car shocked everyone with his response.
I found raging note on my car slamming my parking but I was in white lines – everyone’s shocked by my response
A DRIVER who found a raging note on his car over his parking has shocked viewers with his response.
In a video on TikTok, the car owner shows the angry message left for him which claimed he parking improperly.
The note said: “Please park your car properly. Spare a thought for somebody.”
The young man explained that although his parking was within the white lines, he felt it could have been better.
He wrote: “While it was still within the box, it was slanted but no excuses. Bad is bad.
“For making the driver next to me angry, I decided to apologise by offering something sweet.”
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Instead of reacting with anger, the TikTokker revealed his next move.
To try and make amends, the man wrote his own note back which said: “Dear sir. I am sorry I made your night sour with my bad parking.
“Here’s something to sweeten your day. Hopefully. Peace.”
Along with the note, he left a box of chocolates.
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The creator, Mister_Erw1n, captioned the clip: “We got to learn to admit our faults in order to correct ourselves.”
The video has been viewed more than 135,000 times, garnering more than 174 comments, many of which praised his response.
One person said: “Sheeshhh, my guy literally killed ‘em with kindness
Another said: “Oh how do you know it’s the car beside you who wrote the note, very nice gesture though.”
The poster replied: Dashcam. Thank you.”
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Someone else said: “Respect my dude! Want to have your attitude.”
An impressed viewer said: “You have my utmost respect!”
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