The truth is in the details. Why everyone cares about Peskov's clock

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov answered RBC's question about the watch he wore at the wedding. According to him, his wife Tatyana Navka gave them to him for the wedding. About Peskov's watch for 37 million rubles. Navalny wrote

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov (Photo: RIA Novosti)

“This is a gift from Tanya [Tatiana Navka]. Indeed, the watch is very expensive. But they cost significantly less than some comrades indicate, ”Peskov emphasized, noting that the gift was made on the wedding day.

According to the presidential press secretary, Navka bought the watch with her own money. “Which is nobody’s business,” he added. So Peskov commented on the statement of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who accused him of "illegal enrichment." The oppositionist wrote about the Richard Mille RM 52-01 watch on his blog, attaching a photo from the wedding of the presidential press secretary with Tatyana Navka. The wedding ceremony took place in Sochi on August 1.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation claims that this series of watches is produced in a limited edition of 30 pieces and the cost of one piece is $620,000, — the answer with such a price was received from the Richard Mille boutique in the USA when asked about the cost of the watch model in the photo.

“What kind of sources can a press secretary of the head of state use to buy a watch worth four of his annual salaries?” the opposition asks. In Peskov’s income statement for 2014, the “income” column indicates the figure of 9,184,358 rubles, the blog says.

He also refers to the law, according to which officials who receive gifts worth more than 3,000 rubles are required to notify them and deposit them. “According to the new rules (since 2014), they can be bought out at the market price, that is, Mr. Peskov still had to pay the same 37 million rubles,” the oppositionist emphasized.

At the same time, Navalny points out that "the Anti-Corruption Foundation noticed the watch a long time ago." As confirmation, the oppositionist attached a photo of Peskov with his daughter, which appeared on the Internet earlier and on which the press secretary of the head of state was filmed at the same hours as at his wedding. This photo appeared on Instagram of Peskov's daughter Elizabeth 15 weeks ago.

The day before, in one of the most expensive Sochi hotels Rodina, the wedding ceremony of Peskov and Olympic champion in figure skating Tatyana Navka. Dozens of guests were invited to the event, including President Vladimir Putin. Whether the head of state came to Sochi for the holiday has not yet been reported.

Peskov married for the third time. From two previous marriages, he had three sons and a daughter. For Tatyana Navka, this marriage was already the second. Together with her first husband, world figure skating champion Alexander Zhulin, she lived in the United States for several years, after which she returned to Russia without receiving an American passport. Navka was married to Zhulin for ten years, after which the couple announced a divorce.

Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov is known for a certain amount of cynicism, and in this respect sometimes even surpasses his boss, Vladimir Putin. However, over the weekend, Peskov became not so much a source of fear or disgust as aroused interest worthy of a “soap opera”, since all attention was riveted on his $600,000 watch and a magnificent wedding to an Olympic figure skating champion.

Presidential press secretaries are among the famous and important people, regardless of the country whose leader they work for. The New York Times editor William Safire is said to have once said, “They are talked about on talk shows and written about in books. And soon some begin to feel like they really are little presidents.”

Indeed, Peskov often speaks as a person very close to Putin, as his second self - releasing in abundance on-duty phrases and false statements to justify the recent action or statement of his boss. For example, when the fugitive President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych suddenly appeared in Russia after the “revolution of dignity” last year, Peskov spoke as if he chose the place of his refuge quite by accident: “Yanukovych is the legitimate president of Ukraine, who is located on the territory of the Russian Federation, because men from Ukraine can come here in free mode. Like Putin, he continued adamantly and categorically that the unmarked soldiers and tanks that suddenly appeared in Crimea last year were not Russian — until, of course, Putin acknowledged that they were Russian.

True, after the annexation of Crimea, Peskov's comments became too predictable and did not contain anything particularly new. The microblog on Twitter, created under the name "Peskov's Mustache", gathered 102 thousand subscribers and almost competed with Peskov himself. But even he did not arouse such interest as the story of the first wife of the former diplomat Ekaterina Peskova, when in September last year she told the Russian edition of Tatler, a celebrity magazine about the life of celebrities, about their breakup.

“Two years ago, Peskov’s family life slipped on the treacherous Olympic ice,” the magazine wrote at the time, without naming Peskov’s new girlfriend, figure skater and Olympic champion Tatyana Navka. According to Ekaterina Peskova, her husband "feared" when she asked for a divorce and begged to return. “Having betrayed once, it is impossible to return trust,” Peskova’s answer is quoted by Tatler.

According to a magazine article, Peskov's abandoned wife lives in Paris and leads the life of a wealthy society lady, while his eldest daughter, Elizabeth, attended a private school in Normandy. This caused confusion. Peskov did not work a day in private business, and his ex-wife never engaged in any profitable activity - she only once taught at a school at the embassy. In addition, after the Crimea, Russia found itself in isolation. Some of Putin's close friends and allies, who were unable to travel to the West because of the sanctions, have declared their loyalty to Russia and their intention to travel and vacation in their homeland. Peskov never spoke about the lifestyle of his ex-wife.

Then Navka, who won a gold medal in ice dancing at the 2006 Winter Olympics, announced that she and Peskov would be married in Sochi, Putin's favorite Black Sea resort. The celebration took place last Saturday in one of the most expensive hotels in the city of Rodina Grand. When I tried to book a night at this hotel (whose name means "motherland" in Russian) today for the end of September, it turned out that the cheapest room costs $500 per night. And Peskov and Navka reserved the entire hotel.

They say that the guests had a lot of fun dancing to the singing of the most popular Russian performers. Photos of Peskov kissing and hugging Navka were published in Russian tabloids and posted on social networks. True, the attention of Putin's longtime opponent Alexei Navalny was attracted by a special watch with an open mechanism in the form of a gold skull, which was on Peskov's hand in wedding photographs. Navalny determined that it was a Richard Mille RM 52-01 watch, which was produced in limited quantities - only 30 pieces. He wrote to the American store where they are sold and found out their exact price: 620 thousand dollars.

In 2014, Peskov declared in a declaration that his income amounted to 9.2 million rubles ($147,000). There was no way he could buy this watch with officially earned money. “What we see in the photos from the “wedding of the year” is not just a wedding, but just a classic example of “illegal enrichment”. There are watches worth the size of an apartment, but there is no legal income for the purchase of such watches.”

In response to outrage and ridicule on social media (“Don’t get distracted, please, and continue to follow Ukraine,” the Peskov Mustache tweeted), the presidential spokesman said that the watch was a wedding gift from Navka, and that “indeed, watches are very expensive. But they cost significantly less than some comrades indicate. Navka confirmed his words: “I am an Olympic champion. I work a lot, including all summer, ”she said in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda. - Before the wedding, of course, the question arose before me - what to give to my beloved man? And I found a way out and bought this beautiful watch.”

The problem with Peskov and Navka's explanation is that the Kremlin spokesman was photographed wearing the watch almost four months before the wedding. That photo appeared on Instagram of Peskov's daughter from her first marriage, Elizabeth, who decided not to attend the wedding for the sake of her mother.

Peskov didn't have to resign over his $600,000 watch, as Poland's transport minister Slawomir Nowak did in 2013 because he didn't list a Swiss chronograph that cost just $6 in his property declaration. .6 thousand dollars. On Monday, Peskov returned to work and commented on the creation in Moscow of the "Committee for the Salvation of Ukraine" by some of Yanukovych's associates, including Mykola Azarov, who is on the list of people wanted by Interpol for alleged embezzlement and appropriation of property. “The Kremlin, of course, has nothing to do with this initiative,” Peskov said.

The shameless demonstration of their wealth by officials has become a characteristic feature of the Putin regime. It is believed that the public should not know and be interested in where such money comes from: throughout the weekend on social networks, the Kremlin trolls ridiculed users who raised the question of where Peskov got such a watch. The population of the country endured all this for years in exchange for a small fraction of Russia's oil wealth. Now that the price of oil is falling again, and there is a risk that it will fall below $50 a barrel - the price that is budgeted in 2015 - Putin and his team should be more careful. Russians are a patient people, but in the face of prolonged economic hardship, they may question whether these people can really treat the country like their own property.

Not only friends told - ask the press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov about this. To put on a bright watch with a skull and hands today under a formal suit, this is for a Russian official how to throw a bright lure into a dark pool.

Didn't have to wait long. A predator common to these waters, the opposition politician Alexei Navalny, has pecked at the brilliant bait. He immediately stated that Dmitry Peskov was wearing a Richard Mille RM 52-01 watch, and, according to him, they cost about 37 million rubles or 620 thousand dollars. And for persuasiveness, I posted a response from the watch manufacturer.

For the accuracy of the information, we note that a good expert will not undertake to draw a conclusion from a fuzzy photograph. Tatyana Navka, in a conversation with a Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent, did not name the cost of her gift, but confirmed that it was much more budgetary:

I am an Olympic champion. I work a lot, including all summer. And, of course, earning with my own work, I can afford to make a good gift. Before the wedding, of course, the question arose before me - what to give to my beloved man? And I found a way out for myself and bought this beautiful watch. Naturally, the price that everyone is now discussing, of course, does not correspond to reality. And in general, it does not matter. Why, by the way, the Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko can give his wife an expensive nominal ring in honor of the wedding, for example, while another Olympic champion does not give her husband?

Tatyana Navka: "Earning with my own work, I can afford to make a good gift!" Photo: Oleg Mitvol's Instagram mitvoltv

Dmitry Peskov was more concise:

I couldn't help wearing my wife's gift to the wedding. This is our private matter and no one cares. It is unlikely that gifts from a wife to her husband or from a husband to his wife can be related to anti-corruption activities.

Wedding guests of the same opinion.

Dmitry Peskov did not hide the gift of his wife Tatyana, - Oleg Mitvol shared with Komsomolskaya Pravda. - If incomes allow her to make an expensive wedding gift, and she regularly pays taxes, then what is the problem?

What do you think, would an eminent newsmaker wear a watch to a wedding that he would like to hide from the paparazzi?

If you follow Navalny's evidence, then I can buy exactly the same watch on the Internet for only .... 2 thousand 482 rubles and 93 kopecks (the minimum pension in Russia is twice as much). That's how much you need to spend on the Chinese eBay site

For Russians, Chinese merchants offer pirate watches with a 20% discount. They understand that they can no longer buy a waterproof quartz miracle of creative thought made of stainless steel, hardlex and silicone.

On August 1, in Sochi, on the Black Sea coast, the wedding of the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov and Russian figure skater Tatyana Navka took place. The ceremony was held in the most expensive hotel and caused a wide public outcry. No less interest than the wedding itself was caused by the expensive watch that was seen on Peskov's hand. The watch is similar to the Richard Mille RM 052 Tourbillon Skull, and can cost several years' salary of an official.

Different sources indicate different prices for these watches. Someone talks about 9,300,000 rubles, however, there is evidence that they can cost 23 and even 37.8 million rubles (620,000 dollars). The last amount was set by Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Fund. Peskov's declared income for 2014 amounted to 9,100,000 rubles

According to Dmitry Peskov himself, the watch is Tatyana's wedding gift. Allegedly, she bought them with her own money. He also noted that they are indeed very expensive, but not as they say on the network.

This explanation seems rather strange, given the fact that this clock has been seen in earlier pictures of Peskov. For example, this is a snapshot from a year ago.

Netizens, as always, could not resist and began to joke about this topic.

Advice, as they say, yes love. People found each other and we have no questions about this. But we have questions about the groom's wristwatch.

Still, a happy newlywed since 1989 in the civil service through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and legitimate millions could not make it.

And the watch (on the right hand, like a boss!) clearly indicates that there are some details of the biography that we do not know about. This is Richard Mille RM 52-01. Limited edition - only 30 pieces.

On the Internet, the price of such watches varies from 600,000 euros to 1,400,000 dollars. Yesterday we wrote a letter to the official boutique and found out the exact price.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation noticed the watch a long time ago:

but now there are so many photos with them from the “wedding of the year” that we decided to ask a question publicly.

What sources can a press secretary of the head of state use to buy a watch worth 4 of his annual salary?

Presented?

No, it doesn't work. Officials who receive gifts worth more than 3,000 rubles are required to notify them and deposit them. Under the new rules (since 2014), they can be redeemed at the market price, that is, Mr. Peskov still had to pay the same 37 million rubles.

What we see in the photos from the “wedding of the year” is not just a wedding, but just a classic example of “illegal enrichment”. There are watches worth an apartment, but there is no legal income for the purchase of such watches.

How can one not recall the Polish Minister of Transport, who was forced to resign due to non-declaration of a watch that cost 5.5 thousand dollars (that is, 112 times less than Peskov's).

WARSAW, November 15 - RIA Novosti, Yevgeny Bezeka. Poland's transport minister, Slawomir Nowak, resigned on Friday amid a scandal surrounding his Swiss watch, which he did not list in his asset declaration, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

Polish officials are required to declare in the declaration any of their property, the value of which exceeds 10 thousand zlotys (about 3.5 thousand dollars). Novak did not declare his watch, which costs at least 17,000 PLN ( about 5.5 thousand dollars). On Friday, the prosecutor's office announced its readiness to charge him with filing false information in the declaration and demanded that his parliamentary immunity be lifted.

How can one not recall the famous statement of the official Peskov that " the liver of the protesters should be smeared on the asphalt". Of course, they are protesting against corruption, that is, against the right of such sandy people to take millions of bribes and buy watches with them that are more suitable for a billionaire, and not for an official who lives at the expense of the people.

So it's personal. For his beautiful Richard Mille watch, Dmitry Peskov will smear your liver, and he will not let you in the elections, and he will lie on TV as much as necessary.

PS
We are waiting for official explanations from the administration of the President of the Russian Federation (whose employee is Mr. Peskov) regarding the sources of funds that were used to purchase these watches.

During the wedding, Peskov understood that he would be photographed, and the cards would then scatter over the Internet. During the preparations for the wedding, there were also so many rumors that the guests had something to discuss and something to laugh at later. In this case, the newlyweds decided to play a joke. Peskov temporarily borrowed a watch from one of his acquaintances who were present at the celebration. Posed with them. We were waiting for the journalists to react to this duck. And they weren't wrong. The next day, everyone began to calculate how much the watch cost, and how could an official acquire such a luxury with his modest salary?