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In September 2016 Alexei Navalny posted on his blog information about Dmitry Medvedev's "dacha" - rebuilt 18th - 19th-century Milovka Estate[ru] in Plyos on Volga River. In March 2017 Navalny and the Anti-corruption Foundation published investigation on other properties and residences used by Medvedev and his family, including a 100-hectare (250-acre) domaine with vineyards and 17th-century villa in Tuscany, Italy.

The Navalny report is a very serious work of investigative research. Under normal circumstances, it would have led to a full-fledged “Medvedevgate” disgracing not only the prime minister, but also the entire Russian ruling elite with its insatiable desire for corrupt leisure class pleasures.

But state-controlled Russian media have kept silent spokespeople for the prime minister and president have launched angry diatribes to the effect that this is simply a “convicted individual” trying to conduct an election campaign.

The entire political elite will close ranks behind Medvedev on this for one simple reason: dismissing — even reprimanding Medvedev — would be to acknowledge the charges of the regime’s main opponent and President Vladimir’s Putin’s only potential political rival.

But most importantly, senior leaders do not see informal arrangements between government officials and oligarchs as corruption. To their thinking, it is simply compensation for the hard work of running the state. They view it as a sort of “public-private partnership.”