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The woman who accompanied Pavel Durov on his journey that led to his arrest is Juli Vavilova

It's #OSINT time!
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On August 21, Pavel Durov posted on his VK account:

"Telegram delegation visit to Azerbaijan

In Azerbaijan, Pavel Durov honed his target shooting skills and prepared for Formula 1."

The post was accompanied with 2 videos

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On his Instagram, Julia published a video from the same car
She also published a video from the exact same shooting range
Now the funny part: she was happy to share his Azerbaijan trip to his Instagram community so she published a lot of videos.

They stayed at the Four Seasons in Baku

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They were together in Uzbekistan too
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Same in Kazakhstan


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On Telegram, she published (twice) the helicopter they used during their Baku trip Image
The helicopter home base is UBTT, Zabrat close to the Baku airport

aviapages.com/aircraft/4k-88…

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Might be her trip to Ganja on August 18 Image
Conclusion: They made a lot of efforts to not appears together but still #OPSEC is hard!
In Uzbekistan, Gusein Gasanov, a russian blogger, was with Pavel and Julia

On June 25, in Uzbekistan Pavel Durov has been spotted with Gusein Gasanov (black and red jogging) and a blond girl who is... Juli Vavilova.

As far as I know, she was not identified publicly at this time.

news.mail.ru/society/616852…

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Haha they took the exact same photo 😅
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A video has been taken

facebook.com/watch/?v=14395…
In the video I can see:
- Julia
- Gusein
- Pavel
- 2 bodyguards
- The guy with the umbrella: who is it? Another bodyguard?

We can notice that Julia has the same clothes than in her story
To sumup:

- Julia was not known as the Pavel girlfriend publicly
- In Uzbekistan, June 25, Gusein has been spotted with Pavel and an unidentified (at that time) blond girl
- Durov is probably watched by numerous intelligence services for a long time. This blond girl has probably been quickly identified as Julia (You have a lot of ways to do it)
- Julia continue to post her all life on her social networks giving a lot of info about what Pavel and his activities
Reminder: Wait few hours before posting something on social networks. If you are a public person, prohibit social networks for you but also for all your 1st circle
I can't read all the comments but please keep your misogynistic and antisemitic tweets to yourself.

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