Sanctioned Russian TV Host Cries About Losing His Italian Villa

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Sanctioned Russian TV Host Cries About Losing His Italian Villa
PITY PARTY
It’s all fun and games till they seize your Italian villa.
Julia Davis
Updated Feb. 27, 2022 3:55AM ET / Published Feb. 26, 2022 10:33PM ET
via YouTube

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In 2019, before he was poisoned and imprisoned, opposition activist Alexei Navalny and his team released a video report that revealed state TV host Vladimir Soloviev owns not one, but two villas in Italy down the road from George Clooney’s beloved estate on Lake Como. His neighbors have protested since he bought the property, even launching a petition in 2019 to try to get the local authorities to make sure he didn’t obtain Italian citizenship through his residency. The Kremlin mouthpiece known for constantly condemning Europe and the West for their supposed perversion and decay was thus exposed as an absolute hypocrite.

Last Christmas, Navalny’s investigative team, FBK, videotaped the state TV host’s luxury abodes and left him special gifts—Ukrainian chocolates, since Soloviev is also well-known for his years of anti-Ukrainian propaganda. The Kremlin’s talking head was enraged and complained about what he considered an outrageous privacy violation, but worse was yet to come.

Soloviev learned this week that the latest sanctions imposed against the Kremlin’s regime and its accomplices would impact him personally. His access to properties in Europe is now being impacted, and perhaps his ownership as well.

During Friday’s edition of The Evening With Vladimir Soloviev, the host raged: “I was told that Europe is a citadel of rights, that everything is permitted, that’s what they said… I know from personal experience about the so-called ‘sacred property rights.’ With every transaction I was bringing paperwork demonstrating my official salary, income, I did it all. I bought it, paid crazy amount of taxes, I did everything. And suddenly someone makes a decision that this journalist is now on the list of sanctions. And right away it affects your real estate. Wait a minute. But you told us that Europe has sacred property rights!”

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Poor baby. How terrible!!!

Serves them right. Sleep with dogs like Putin, suffer with an infestation of fleas.

[BlueWavePsych]

3. Sob Sob Sob

[Crowman2009]

2. Sacred property rights sounds similar to that sovereign citizen BS.

In that it's totally made up.

[blue-wave]

4. Well cry me a river!

You don't have any rights when you pal around with thugs and are complicit in the carnage we are witnessing this moment. And I'm sure we can also dig up plenty of criminal behavior from the past.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Russia didn't respect Ukraine's "sacred property rights."

Turnabout is fair play.

[70sEraVet]

6. I hope Italy keeps his villas, and transforms them into museums

where people can learn about what happens to people who act as mouthpieces for power-hungry murderers.

[Crazyleftie]

7. Confiscate all of the russian owned condos and yachts in Florida as well!!

[NCjack]

8. Good job, Italy! There must be more oligarchs there -- keep digging

in the real estate and personal property records.

[Danascot]

9. Now where did I put that tiny violin?