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Foundations linked to former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have amassed about $850 million since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago, Radio Free Europe's Russian research unit Systema has discovered.
The rise in the foundations' wealth coincides with the resurgence of Medvedev's wartime image, whom President Vladimir Putin dismissed from the post of prime minister in 2020.
However, he has found an audience of millions of followers in his new role as an "online attacker," while still maintaining a role in the government as deputy chairman of Putin's Security Council and chairman of the ruling party, United Russia.
Medvedev, once a gentle and moderate figure, has become an ardent supporter of the war, and holds harsh and hateful stances towards Kiev and the West on social media.
Overall, 15 foundations linked to Medvedev received about 28 billion rubles, or $424 million, between 2015 and 2021, the last year before the full Russian occupation begins in February 2022, according to financial documents reviewed by Systema.
From 2022 to 2024, this amount increased to more than 130 billion rubles, or $1.39 billion. More than half of this money was received in the past year alone.
The foundations had a total of 23.5 billion rubles, or $316 million, in their accounts at the end of 2021 and 86.4 billion rubles, or $850 million, at the end of 2024, the data show.
The funds have been distributed for various purposes, including to Russian forces fighting in Ukraine and real estate projects - which appear to have links to Medvedev - from St. Petersburg to the Black Sea coast, Systema revealed.
The foundations do not publicly identify their donors, and only two of the 14 still in existence currently have websites. One of them, Nasha Pravda (Our Truth), says it has spent 2.4 billion rubles over the past two years to support the “special military operation,” Putin’s forced term for the war in Ukraine, with spending on thousands of drones, night vision goggles, generators, medical equipment and other supplies.
The partnership with United Russia
Nasha Pravda was established on Medvedev’s initiative, according to the head of the United Russia central executive committee, Alexei Sidyakin. The foundation has collaborated with the party — in February 2025, for example, they jointly donated equipment worth more than 14 million rubles ($177,000) to a Russian military unit, according to the foundation’s website.
Djali 29-vjeçar i Medvedevit, Ilya, i cili iu bashkua partisë në shtator 2022, mori pjesë në ceremoni dhe u prezantua si drejtor projekti në të njëjtin komitet partiak.
Shumë nga fondacionet nuk japin hollësi për mënyrën se si i shpenzojnë fondet.
Por, dëshmitë tregojnë se disa janë përdorur për të mbështetur drejtpërdrejt ose tërthorazi projekte të pasurive të paluajtshme që kanë lidhje me Medvedevin - një temë me interes të madh publik që nga raporti i Fondacionit Anti-Korrupsion (FBK) të ndaluar tashmë, i udhëhequr nga Aleksi Navalny, që zbuloi një rrjet pronash luksoze, jahtesh, vreshtash dhe pasurish të tjera që i atribuoheshin kryeministrit të atëhershëm.
Raporti i FBK-së përmendte prona të mundshme të Medvedevit në qytetin Plios në lumin Volga, në rajonin Kursk, në Rubliovka (një lagje luksoze në periferi të Moskës), në Soçi, një prodhues verërash të quajtur Skalisty Bereg, dhe disa jahte. Systema zbuloi se shumica e këtyre pronave janë ende të lidhura me fondacione që kanë lidhje me Medvedevin.
Në mars, Nasha Pravda bashkëpunoi me Skalisty Bereg, që ka vreshta pranë resortit bregdetar Anapës, për të ndihmuar në pastrimin pas një derdhjeje të madhe vaji në dhjetor. Skalisty Bereg kontrollohet nga fondacione të lidhura me Medvedevin dhe Ilya Medvedev është në bordin drejtues të saj.
Në dhjetor 2022, një firmë e quajtur FKK – në pronësi të një fondacioni të lidhur me Medvedevin – bleu një kompani menaxhimi, Makna, që administronte një resort të rrënuar të quajtur Shingary, vetëm 7 minuta larg detit.
Shkatërrimi i resortit nisi pak muaj më pas, dhe FKK bleu disa parcela aty pranë dhe mori tokë me qira nga Makna, duke sugjeruar një zhvillim të ri, edhe pse nuk është e qartë se çfarë do të ndërtohet.
Afër qytetit të tij të lindjes, Shën Petersburg, një fondacion i quajtur Nevsky bleu një vilë dykatëshe në periferi të qytetit në vitin 2023 – dhe në 2024 shtoi një shtepizë në Pavlovsk, ku Medvedev kalonte verat si fëmijë dhe që e vizitoi si president në vitin 2009.
Medvedev nuk iu përgjigj kërkesave të Systemas për koment, ashtu si edhe fondacionet Nasha Pravda dhe Nevsky. Skalisty Bereg nuk u përgjigj gjithashtu, ndërsa shefi ekzekutiv i FKK-së e mbylli telefonin sapo dëgjoi që e telefononte një gazetar dhe nuk iu përgjigj pyetjeve të dërguara me mesazh.
Ndezja e një lufte
Që nga pushtimi i plotë i Ukrainës, transformimi i figurës publike të Medvedev ka qenë i thellë. Si president nga 2008 deri në 2012, në periudhën ndërmjet dy mandateve të Putinit, ai shfaqte veten si një liberal relativ, reformator dhe mbështetës i lirive më të mëdha.
Rusët që kishin shpresa për ndryshim u ndien të tradhtuar kur Putini u rikthye si president në vitin 2012, duke e zhvendosur Medvedevin në vendin e dytë, si kryeministër. Nën një shtypje gjithnjë e më të ashpër të opozitës, Rusia pushtoi Krimenë dhe mori kontrollin e pjesëve të Ukrainës Lindore në vitin 2014, duke ndezur një luftë që çoi në pushtimin e plotë tetë vjet më vonë.
Deemed by many as weak and irrelevant after he left the prime minister's post in January 2020, Medvedev's public trust rating was below 23 percent at the end of 2021, compared to 65 percent for Putin, according to the state-funded VTsIOM poll.
In VTsIOM results on June 1, Medvedev's trust rating had doubled to 45.7 percent, the highest after Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. His Telegram channel, which he launched a few weeks after the start of the full lockdown, became the most followed in Russia by the end of 2022, with posts now receiving an average of over 1.8 million views.
Medvedev's social media posts are often filled with harsh, insulting language toward Western governments, dire warnings about Kiev, and veiled threats of nuclear strikes. In 2023, he came up with the idea of ??bombing the Bundestag in Berlin.
Last week, he wrote on Telegram that Russia's goal in the first direct peace talks with Ukraine in three years was not peace, but "ensuring a quick victory and the complete destruction of the government in Kiev."
The United States, the European Union, Britain and other countries have imposed sanctions on Dmitry and Ilya Medvedev in connection with Russia's war against Ukraine./ REL
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