🎻 Putin’s favorite conductor is coming back to Europe.

On July 27, Valery Gergiev will perform at Un’Estate da Re — a state-funded festival in Italy backed by the EU.
His first Western show since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Let us remind you who he is 🧵 ⚠️ Gergiev:
— Signed pro-Crimea letters
— Gave concerts in Syria with Putin’s allies
— Was Putin’s campaign rep
— Said nothing about the war
— Still runs both the Mariinsky and Bolshoi theaters

Here's a report on our work over the past month. We thank everyone who makes it possible!

First of all, we organized worldwide rallies in support of @navalny. On June 4, they took place in 148 cities and 50 countries.

Join the #FreeNavalny campaign at free.navalny.com Our "SHIZO" installation traveled to The Hague and Prague.

At the same time, we held meetings with supporters. A total of 500 people came to meet Ivan Zhdanov in Amsterdam and Maria Pevchikh in Prague.

We found Shoigu's son. No, he’s not in a military unit, not in a trench, and not even in a warm chair in the General Staff.

Let us show you how the son of the Russian Defense Minister lives and what he does in the second year of the war in Ukraine. 1/11 Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has two official children - two daughters. Yulia Shoigu, who works for the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and Ksenia Shoigu — a head of the Russian Triathlon Federation. 2/11

Looking at the sanctions policies of the European Union, the U.S. and other countries over the past year, we see that sanctions are imposed consistently, but in relatively small packages.

As a rule, they target 100-200 individuals and legal entities at a time. In this regard, we are offering the relevant agencies a tool that will allow them to quickly understand who of the individuals on our extensive list is yet to be sanctioned by a particular country and who of them should be sanctioned as a matter of priority.

What do a destroyed house in Mariupol and a villa in Saint-Tropez have in common?

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov makes money on construction of all the facilities in the occupied city, which has been almost completely destroyed by Putin's army. 1/6 Despite being Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov is a well-known character in high society. He owes it to his wife, a well-known party girl from the noughties, a heroine of the celebrity chronicles Svetlana Maniovich. 2/6

We urge France, Spain, and Portugal to impose sanctions on Golikova's family!

acf.international/news/asks-fran… 1/4 Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova owns golf clubs, hotels and luxury villas in Europe.

According to the most conservative estimates, her family's assets are worth $830 million. This money was earned through a corrupt scheme. 2/4

We've updated our sanctions list!

This addition was based on materials from Russia's best-known investigative organizations: @InsiderEng
@wwwproektmedia @istories_media.

acf.international/news/rasshiren… 1/4 The total corruption that entangles the Russian state (and to a large extent lies at its core) made the criminal war against Ukraine possible. This week we have significantly updated the list of those involved in corruption in the broadest sense.

acf.international/news/rasshiren… 2/4

More than a thousand Russians are persecuted for political reasons.

27 of them have been imprisoned for anti-war statements. This is what happens when actual criminals take over government institutions. 1/6 Putin has developed a sophisticated repressive machine that is supposed to quell public dissent. Kangaroo courts sentence innocent people as militarized forces compete to outdo each other. 2/6

Putin's ex-wife Lyudmila Ocheretnaya has never worked in her life, but still can afford real estate in Europe: a villa in Biarritz, at least one apartment in Davos and two in Malaga, Spain.

How did she manage to earn the money for all this? 1/7 While Alina Kabaeva was already working in the State Duma and Putin’s other mistress Svetlana Krivonogikh was raising his daughter, he continued to show up on the TV with Lyudmila.

Why didn’t she just give away all of his secrets? Well, here’s the reason. 2/7