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we head now to the black sea and to a sprawling palace complex with its own amphitheater a tea house and a helipad who owns it well kremlin critic alexei navalny has released a two-hour video investigation into the complex saying the palace was built for russian president vladimir putin using taxpayer money the kremlin has denied those allegations the video was posted by navalny's team two days after he was jailed upon returning to russia in the two-hour video navalny explains how his anti-corruption foundation had been able to film the property from above for the first time using a drone he says there's nothing like it anywhere in the country without exaggeration it is the most secretive and guarded facility in russia it isn't a country house or a residence it's an entire city or rather a kingdom it has impregnable fences its own harbour guards church its own checkpoint no fly zone and even its own border point it is a separate state inside russia details of the powers were leaked by construction workers said to be shocked at its opulence among its many features this green mound is reported to house an underground ice hockey rink this is an amphitheater navalny points out the exit of a tunnel used by putin to access the beach he also emphasizes not just the size of the palace but also the vastness of the area it occupies which is three and a half times the size of the nearest city the kremlin rejects all the claims calling them nonsensical these are groundless allegations they are nonsense and a compilation of fabrications and nothing else that's the principal goal of such documents such pseudo investigations it's a scam we want all the people taking into account the big number of views insists that not only does this property belong to putin but that it was financed through corruption and the misuse of public funds calling it the biggest bribe in history for which the russian president must be held to account our correspondent yuri roshetto is standing by for us in moscow hi yuri what about the timing of this why did alexi navalny decide to release this film now explains right at the beginning of the video why he is only coming out with this now he says he didn't want to be accused of taking a shot at putin from abroad where he was safe the politician clearly wants to go on the offensive he wants to show that he is not afraid of anything he already showed that by coming back to russia of course he didn't know for sure he would be arrested but it did seem likely he has been accused in the past to me by the kremlin of being an instrument of the western secret services which has always denied by releasing this video while he is in a russian prison now he is presenting himself as a russian politician with no plans of leaving the country someone who is prepared to go through thick and thin with people here we saw on the report that the kremlin says this is an old record tell us more about the reactions from authorities well the official reactions are of course no surprise you mentioned the press secretary of vladimir putin mr piskov said it's an overplayed record something that navalny has been saying over and over again the head of the dumas the russian parliament that cheslav volodin insisted navalny is being used as a tool by the western secret services and the u.s state department all that navalny does he said is backed by foreign states and russia's task would be to prevent such foreign interference as for people's reactions here the navalny investigation is the top video on russian youtube it has gotten nearly 20 million views since it was published last night and it's a hot topic on social media of course as well the navalny people have even created a filter on instagram with which you can use or you can see yourself in a 3d model in the rooms of the palace and take a selfie so it's getting a lot of attention what impact you think this is going to actually have for the kremlin well that may sound very strange to western ears but the answer is nothing no impact probably a western politician would resign immediately in any case it would be a political earthquake but not he assumed not in russia we have to keep in mind that although it's the most spectacular video by navalny or of navalny so far it's not the first mine one uh this is a typical video of navalny in 2017 he published a similar investigation about the then prime minister mitra medvedev which prompted protests here in the country but didn't change anything everyone here already knew that putin was rich or is rich and despite social media discussions right now state-backed media media will of course not accuse putin but rather present navalny as someone who has betrayed his country and wants to weaken russia yuri rashada reporting for us in moscow thank you you