PUTIN’S ENEMY NO 1
HE’S long been a thorn in the side of the Russian leader and for years the Kremlin has tried to silence him – yet despite the fact he’s been persecuted, jailed and poisoned, he refuses to be muzzled.
And Alexei Navalny’s latest deed of defiance might well be his boldest yet. The 44-year-old Russian activist and politician recently released a video that’s had jaws dropping around the world – and clearly rattled Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The film is of what Navalny calls “Putin’s Palace”, a staggeringly ostentatious development second only in cost to Buckingham Palace.
The R22,4-billion estate on the shores of the Black Sea spares no expense: included in
