Putin’s family abroad - corruption, ballet and army of bodyguards | Investigation

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IStories and Der Spiegel gained access to a unique archive with documents of an agent of the Russian President’s Security Service. It allowed us to confirm the identity of the new fiancé of Vladimir Putin’s daughter Katerina Tikhonova. Her new love, Russian ballet master Igor Zelensky, lived and worked in Munich, where the couple used to have regular dates.
The president’s daughter flew to the dates by a Russian company’s business jet. Tikhonova did not travel alone, but invariably with companions, who were rarely less than ten.
Who were those brave tight lads? What was their mission? Where did they stay? How much did those endless travels cost? Who paid for them? And, most importantly, why would the president’s daughter need such accompaniment?
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00:00 Where agents of the Presidential Security Service stayed in Germany
03:20 A secret mission for Putin’s guards
04:06 Army of agents for a date with Zelensky
05:05 A project worth 120 billion
06:25 Email archive of a bodyguard of the president’s daughter
07:15 Putin’s main secret
09:39 How the president’s family members spend their holidays
10:30 How we identified agents of the Presidential Security Service
11:49 How much it costs to take 10 bodyguards with you for holidays
12:49 How Western leaders’ family members are guarded
13:51 Relocation of Putin’s daughter to Germany
15:05 “People from Putin’s circle are not very welcome here”
16:06 Why have bodyguards in a Bavarian village
17:34 “National traitors” and the “Iron Curtain”
18:46 Business jet as a gift to the president
20:25 Who pays for all of it? Is that legal at all?
21:21 Vaccines, government contracts and corruption
22:14 Where president’s jet departed to on February 24