Top Russian Diplomat's Secret Life With Millionaire Mistress Exposed
Source: The Daily Beast
Sergey Lavrov, the face of Russian diplomacy, has reportedly been living large while on official trips to more than 20 countries with his ultra-rich mistress.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has reportedly bankrolled his mistresss travel abroad with him on official diplomatic trips to almost two dozen countries around the world, according to a new bombshell report from Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalnys team. The report, entitled Yachts, bribes and a mistress. What Minister Lavrov is hiding, details a plethora of luxury digs and yachts enjoyed by the couple, including a yacht owned by the notorious oligarch Oleg Deripaska, which has been graced by the likes of Belarusian model Anastasia Vashukevich, better known by her pseudonym Nastya Rybka.
Lavrov, 71, is married and has a daughter. His alleged female companion, Svetlana Polyakova, is an actress and a restaurateur, with no known qualifications that would justify her apparent affiliation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Property records unearthed by reporters show that Polyakova and members of her family own real estate in Russia and the U.K. worth about 1 billion rubles ($13.6 million), as well as a fleet of luxury cars worth a total of about 40 million rubles ($545,000).
The Navalny teams Thursday report was a follow-up to an investigation released earlier this week by iStories, an independent Russia-focused investigative news outlet. Based on information provided by sources within the Foreign Ministry, the outlet found that Polyakovas relationship with Lavrov is reportedly so close that her friends listed her contact information as Svetlana Lavrova. She participated in public events alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin and was included in the elite entourage allowed to be in his presence.
The investigation by Navalnys team alleges that over the past seven years, Polyakova has used the foreign ministers official plane on at least 60 occasions. Among other countries, she reportedly traveled with Lavrov to France, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, Singapore, Portugal, and Greece. Polyakovas mother, daughter, and even her niece accompanied her on some of those official diplomatic escapades.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-russian-diplomat-sergey-lavrovs-secret-life-with-millionaire-mistress-exposed
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EYESORE 9001
(25,812 posts)Everybody is hiding a long, sharp knife behind their back.
hatrack
(59,439 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,674 posts)every bit as much as privatizations in capitalist countries. The well connected walked off with the opportunities, the assets, and the loot!
Baitball Blogger
(46,575 posts)COL Mustard
(5,783 posts)Where do I get one?
IronLionZion
(45,258 posts)neohippie
(1,142 posts)Russian Activist Alleges New Link Between the Kremlin and Paul Manafort
Hes pointing to an escorts recording of a meeting between a Kremlin official and an oligarch linked to Trumps indicted campaign chairman.
A story involving a Norwegian yacht, an escort, and her Instagram posts featuring a prominent oligarch are capturing Russias attentionand may represent a new and bizarre twist in the story behind Moscows links to the Trump campaign.
In a 25-minute video published on YouTube Thursday morning, Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny accused Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Prikhodkoa top foreign policy officialof having been a conduit between the Kremlin and an oligarch linked to the Trump campaign.
With a mix of news clips, Navalny presented the case that during the 2016 election Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, a past business associate of Paul Manafort, the indicted former Trump campaign chairman, passed to the Kremlin inside information about the Trump campaign he obtained from Manafort. Navalny also cites social media posts from Nastya Rybka, a Russian model and escort who has claimed to have been Deripaskas mistress and who has written a memoir about their supposed affair titled A Diary of Seducing a Billionaire.
seta1950
(932 posts)Want the same things for them here Im sure
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)Official TASSfoto
ck4829
(34,977 posts)DFW
(54,055 posts)If the mistress is "ultra-rich," why does Lavrov have to "bankroll" her trips? It seems more like she would be the one bankrolling him. Although: if they are both in Putin's good graces, I'm sure neither of them has a financial worry in the world.
And--"Nastya Rybka?" Sounds fishy to me ("ryba" is the Russian word for fish).