Responding to claims that a luxury pile in the resort town of Gelendzhik belonged to the president, Peskov said that “in reality, this is not true.” He added that the Kremlin had not reviewed a new tranche of allegations around Putin’s supposed personal wealth, but that he was able to dismiss them in the same way he has in the past.
“I can say straight away that this is a broken record. Many years ago, we had previously explained that Putin does not have any palaces in Gelendzhik,” the spokesman said.
Earlier on Tuesday, Navalny’s supporters launched a website, with a documentary hosted by the jailed Moscow protest leader making the claims, and published a supporting article in which they alleged that the Russian president was, in fact, the owner of the colossal mansion in the southern Krasnodar region.