Young recruits from Russia’s poorest peripheral republics continue to die on the Ukrainian front in Donbass. And that’s why the latest report from the founding of Russian dissident Navalny is striking, about the carefree life and unbridled luxury of 22-year-old Danila Shebunov, aka Sheba, the pop star who released the latest hit Ukraine on the day of the invasion. Sheba is one of the many “she-don’t-know-who-I-am”, descendants of the Muscovite and St. His children study at the most prestigious European and American universities, buy yachts and villas in London, Paris and in the most fashionable places in the Mediterranean and doesn’t even bother to let them live in the shade.
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The next generation shows off in the social networks: social and social glamour. Sheba, so to speak, the son of a former flight attendant with whom Shoigu (which he denies) has notoriously had a parallel relationship with three children since the 2000s, fills his Instagram profile with photos of him whizzing behind the wheel of a convertible in the evening light and instead of going forward, he shows up at the World Cup in Qatar. Here he is in another selfie, saying, “I heard it’s cold in Moscow.” But he’s lying blissfully on a Turkish beach. “Here are some warm photos for you!” Satisfied with the 90,000 views of his first music video “Let me in” he performs sexual acrobatics. By the age of 19, Shoigu’s son already owned two luxury apartments in Moscow, according to Navalny’s anti-corruption association. Is it any surprise, then, that the leader of the Wagner mercenaries, Prigozhin, is targeting the elites and sons and turning it into a political campaign?
morality and reality
A whole generation has lived in the light of their parents, albeit in the West. Fly private jets, buy great apartments in chic Paris or posh London, go skiing in Austria or Switzerland and attend the UK’s most exclusive colleges. Jody Vittori, a professor at Georgetown University, speaks to CNN about a return to “kleptocracy.” The government of thieves. In 2016, a bill banning the sending of children of Russian civil servants to foreign universities was rejected.
Elizaveta Peskova, the 24-year-old daughter of Putin’s spokeswoman Peskova’s second marriage, openly stated that Russia’s education system is “hell,” much better than in the West. And he spawned a post on Instagram that revived the pacifist “no to war” formula.
But, of course, she grew up in a very expensive school in Paris, did an internship in a large French fashion house and, apparently, even in the European Parliament. With his mother, he bought 180 square meters for 2 million euros on one of the most beautiful streets in Paris, Avenue Victor Hugo. Apparently she railed against the sanctions to which she fell victim. The same goes for Polina Kovaleva, 21-year-old daughter of Foreign Minister Lavrov, owner of a beautiful apartment in London, a stone’s throw from her former university, Imperial College. Lavrov’s other and elder daughter, Ekaterina Vinokorova, 39, was educated at Columbia University in New York, where she lived for 17 years. Perhaps out of shame or fear, Nikolai, Peskov’s son, contacted the Wagner mercenaries after the controversy about the reluctant offspring.
For Prigozhin, he remains a “Str…o”, known for his festive outings. But as a soldier, he says, “it wasn’t bad.” He’s the fig leaf of the establishment.
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