Kolesnikov Palace Documents
Sergey Kolesnikov is a businessman and former associate of Vladimir Putin. He had been associated with Putin through the company Petromed, which he co-founded with Putin’s Committee for Foreign Liaison of the St. Petersburg mayor’s office in the early 1990s. The company went on to receive vast contracts and state funding for medical equipment and facilities throughout Russia beginning in 2000, after Putin became President.
However, the following articles and documents show how those funds were subsequently diverted in part to pay for the construction of a villa on the Black Sea, known as Putin’s Palace. Kolesnikov became known as a whistleblower after penning a letter to former President Dmitry Medvedev in December 2010, in which he exposed the corrupt scheme that included the construction of this "Palace" and challenged President Medvedev to fight corruption.
*This page and subpages were built based on Kolesnikov's own website. For navigational purposes the titles of many of the documents were translated into English; the content of the documents remain in Russian.
Bank of Russia
Articles
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01.12.2011 - Financial Times. "The kingdom that is suitable for the present king"
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02.12.2011 - Radio Echo of Moscow. "It will be impossible to wash off"
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02.12.2011 - Radio Liberty. "Vladimir Putin as tzsar"
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06.02.2012 - Inopressa (The New York Times). "From the success at Putin's side to exposing corruption"
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27.02.2012 - The New Times. "Hardball candidate"
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3.3.2012 - The New York Times. "From success at Putin’s side to exposing corruption"
Putin's Palace
Articles
- 11.03.2011 - Sergei Mitrokhin. "'Putin's dacha' was stolen from Putin"
- S.Kolesnikov - "Nine months of one year"
- 29.12.2010 - Bulletin. "The dirt from the palace"
- 12.01.2011 - A new newspaper. "Secrets of 'Project South '"
- 01.04.2011 - Bulletin. "The man who is not 'ours' anymore"
- 24.05.2011 - Gazette. S.Kolesnikov."Fighting Corruption: The Phantom of the palace"
- 06.06.2011 - Gazette. S.Kolesnikov."Fighting Corruption: The siphoning of funds"
- 11.08.2011 - A new newspaper. S.Kolesnikov. "The Phantom of the Palace is guarded by the ghosts from the FSO"
- 29.12.2010 –Vedomosti. “Sweeping Out Palace” (English)
- 20.4.2012 -Al Jazeera. "In Search of Putin’s Money" (English)
- 12.1.2011 -Novaya gazeta. “Billions on Putin’s palace, secrets of the project" (English)
