In his millionaire flat in Kensington, one of the most exclusive areas of London, the thousand and one nights parties were well known. but Polina Kovalevabeautiful and very blonde 26 years old, daughter of the lover of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey LavrovShe made no secret of it, posting on Instagram (until recently) pictures of beautiful dresses, trips, dinners in the trendiest restaurants. Her €5 million home was bought with cash and no mortgage, but she (like her mother) had no income. And now Polina like that Russian oligarchs ended up on the target list of antiMoscow sanctions imposed by Boris Johnson’s government in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
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The “official” lover
Polina’s story had turned into a coincidence, and she had long asked for the confiscation of her apartment in Kensington. In fact, Polina is not officially related to Lavrov. The Secretary of State has a first “official” family known to the media. Although she has not been seen in public for a long time, Maria Lavrova has been his wife for 50 years. Lavrov’s parallel marriage to Svetlana Polyakova, Polina’s mother, was never a mystery. The woman lives in London with her 26yearold daughter: both have a car collection and even a luxury apartment. Despite known relations with Lavrov, for Britain, Svetlana is a single and unemployed woman, as is her daughter Polina.
But these new sanctions herald a change of course that would also affect those “hidden assets attributed to Russian oligarchs. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss underscored this via Twitter, specifying that the list now includes “more than 1,000 individuals and companies” believed to be linked in one way or another to President Vladimir Putin’s power system. Truss writes that the additional penalties for individuals and entities are “65,” rather than 59 as originally reported. It includes banks and companies that have not previously been affected, but also at the level
individual CEOs of structures already aligned at the corporate level. Truss cites more among the examples
Notable among today’s newcomers are the recruiting firm Mercenary Group Wagner, the stepdaughter of Foreign Minister Lavrov and the CEO of Russia’s largest bank.
The “inexplicable” wealth
Polina Kovaleva holds a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Economics and a master’s degree from Imperial College London. She is not married and her father is not a millionaire. The mother, Lavrov’s wife, has no work. According to Navalnyj’s team, most of the money Kovaleva spends would come from her stepfather Lavrov, and for that they had to be sanctioned. The young woman worked for Gazprom and other Moscowaffiliated giants and in the past lived in a house in Holland Park, west London, that belonged to the Russian embassy. She has been a passenger on the State Department plane at least 60 times, sometimes with her mother, sometimes with her granddaughter, and with her mother she owns an apartment in Moscow worth $68 million, a dacha in the Moscow region and at least two luxury cars . Meanwhile, his Instagram social profiles have disappeared.
The London home
She shares the apartment with a man believed to be her partner who also has a 10% stake in the investment company she now runs. The property is part of an award winning development offering a swimming pool, gym, spa, cinema, golf simulator, arcade and views of Kensington and Holland Park.
The British Foreign Office said that the attack on Polina “sends a strong signal that those who benefit from uniting those responsible for Russian aggression fall within the scope of our sanctions”. In practice, the sanctions will prevent UK citizens and businesses from “trading any funds or economic resources owned, owned or controlled by Polina”. They will also prevent the money from being provided to Polina or allocated to her benefit.
I would like to introduce you to Polina Kovaleva. Polina is a 26yearold glamorous Russian from London🇬🇧. She lives in a huge apartment in Kensington and loves to party, her Instagram feed looks like a nonstop vacation. That’s not unusual, but there’s a small detail… (THREAD) pic.twitter.com/6OsVGjPxQQ
Maria Pevchikh (@pevchikh) March 10, 2022
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