In Menaggio, in Loveno, on Lake Como, at dawn a fire was set on the outside of one of the two pharaonic villas of Vladimir Solovyev, journalist of the Russian TV Rossija 1, a personal friend of Vladimir Putin, a billionaire who, for himself, rejects the definition of oligarch. According to local authorities, the damage to the property seized since the beginning of March following the Italian sanctions against Russia for the war in Ukraine was serious. The value of the two Italian properties owned by Solovyev is around 8 million euros. Italy understood what Solovyev is made of when, on March 31st, he went as a guest of Right and backhand on Network 4.
From Russian TV to Lake Como
«Biden can call Putin what he thinks, we don’t give a damn. Zelensky is the killer here. ‘ The villa on Lake Como «I paid for it. Check and verify all the money I have spent. And now you are telling me that it is too much? ” The sanctions “are against the law, a theft”. As for relations between Italy and Russia, “if you want to ruin our economy, hating the Russians and banning Dostoevsky, please.” How does one get out of the war? «Putin has prepared a very simple plan with the demands of him. If this plan is accepted, no problem ». In that of Menaggio no one seems to have ever had anything to do with him who in Russia enjoys considerable fame as a television face. He is 58 years old, was born in Moscow and has five children and is considered one of the main propagandists of the Kremlin.
Putin’s favorite journalist
In the curriculum he has several unequivocally titled books such as We are Russian, God is with usor also Enemies of Russia e Putin, guide for empaths. A great controversial talent, he left the radio in 1997, but owes much of his fortunes to the role of television commentator. In 2014, according to reports from the Guardian, he was secretly awarded together with other journalists an award given by Putin himself for “objective” media coverage of the Crimean war: in his program on Rossija 1 he was full of experts singing the praises of the Russian president.
The outbursts against sanctions
For independent blogs opposing the regime, Solovyev is just an “information warfare soldier” and activist Alexey Navalny, in jail because considered Putin’s main opponent, has also attacked him several times. Western sanctions hit him particularly hard. “They told me that Europe is a citadel of rights, that everything is allowed, this is what they said. I know from personal experience of so-called sacred property rights, ”he said during a Friday night show he called The Evening on Rossija 1. «At every transaction I brought documents that proved my official salary, income, I did everything. I bought it, paid an insane amount of tax, did it all. And suddenly someone decides that this reporter is now on the sanctions list. And immediately he affects your property. Wait a minute: you said that Europe has sacred property rights! ‘
