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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The part I love the most about Russian propagandists is how hypocritical they are.

"Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov's mistress owns a villa next to members of the Russian military elite in the Black Sea resort of Sochi and gave birth to her children in the U.S."
"According to the investigation, Svetlana Abrosimova, a former basketball player, is Solovyov's mistress and gave birth to their two daughters in the U.S. in 2017."
https://kyivindependent.com/media-top-russian-propagandist-has-second-family-in-us/

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Then you will love Zelensky’s villa in Italy, too.[/quote]

Tell me you're ignorant and clueless without telling me you're ignorant and clueless.

Prior to becoming President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a highly successful actor and comedian along with founding and running a highly successful media media production company, Kvartal 95.   He owned the Italian villa before becoming President, and sold it last year.

So you're trying to make some kind of dumb point which is entirely pointless.[/quote]

And then there was this bit in the Pandora Papers:

Actor Volodymyr Zelensky stormed to the Ukrainian presidency in 2019 on a wave of public anger against the country’s political class, including previous leaders who used secret companies to stash their wealth overseas.

Now, leaked documents prove that Zelensky and his inner circle have had their own network of offshore companies. Two belonging to the president’s partners were used to buy expensive property in London.

The revelations come from documents in the Pandora Papers, millions of files from 14 offshore service providers leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and shared with partners around the world including OCCRP.

The documents show that Zelensky and his partners in a television production company, Kvartal 95, set up a network of offshore firms dating back to at least 2012, the year the company began making regular content for TV stations owned by Ihor Kolomoisky, an oligarch dogged by allegations of multi-billion-dollar fraud. The offshores were also used by Zelensky associates to purchase and own three prime properties in the center of London.
https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle[/quote]

Wow.  Imagine that.   A successful TV production company made money and was able to buy properties and hold foreign assets.  Big deal.  Nothing strange or illegal about that.  And a TV network broadcast some of their content, but later their owner turned out to be corrupt, like Rupert Murdoch.  So by your logic does that mean that every TV production company that ever had anything to do with FOX is somehow corrupt and doing illegal stuff?

Ooogha boogha innuendo innuendo

Now how about you talk about how someone like Vladimir Putin somehow became worth upward of $70 billion with his entire career being a "public servant" with zero corruption involved?  Or how in fact we don't even know what his full wealth is, given how completely opaque and corrupt Russia is on these types of matters?[/quote]

No one holds up Putin as an example of anything. His corruption is a proven fact.

Zelensky, on the other hand...

Now, as to "nothing strange or illegal about that": from the same source.

Even as Zelensky pushes his anti-oligarch campaign, some continue to doubt his sincerity. Among them is Ruslan Ryaboshapka, who was picked by Zelensky as the country’s top prosecutor in 2019, but ousted from the role in early 2020. He told OCCRP he believes this was due to pressure from the oligarch Kolomoisky.

“A president shouldn’t own offshore companies. In general offshore companies are bad, whether they’re owned by a president or not,” Ryaboshapka said.

He called moving money offshore “an old tradition” in Ukraine, because the country was perceived as a dangerous place with “no rule of law.” But still, the use of such companies today raises red flags of “tax evasion or the legalization of dirty money,” he said.

“That’s the essence of offshore companies.”

Aubrey Belford (OCCRP), Margot Gibbs (ICIJ), Luke Harding (The Guardian), and Simon Goodley (The Guardian) contributed reporting.[/quote]

Seems your info is outdated and irrelevant given Zelenskyy cracked down on Kolomoisky https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64482072[/quote]

Ah but did he crack down on his offshore holdings?[/quote]

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