Spreading salacious gossip about 71-year-old Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, what’s left of 44-year-old Alexi Navalny’s insurgent group dug up dirt on the Russian Federation’s longest-serving diplomat. Lavrov’s been on the world stage since 2004, helping orchestrate Russia’s global foreign policy under the direction of 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin. Speaking impeccable English and dressed to the nines, Lavrov was a perfect target for Navalny’s insurgent group, whose goal is ousting Putin from power. Splashed over tabloids around the world, Navalny’s dirty tricksters have accused Lavrov of a long-term affair with real estate heiress Svetlona Polyakova AKA Nastya Rybka,, a former actress, restaurateur and socialite. Navalny has plenty of sympathy in the U.S. and European Union [EU], knowing that his clandestine group seeks to topple Putin’s government.
Hatting Western headlines, Lavrov’s affair is utterly meaningless, despite the current atmosphere since Navanly was sent Feb. 28 to a Russian penal colony to serve out a minimum two-and-half-year sentence. Today’s revelations by Navalny’s group led by Leonid Volkov is bound to cause Navalny an extended prison stay with Putin monitoring Navalny’s activities daily. President Joe Biden, 78, and his 58-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanded last March that Putin release Navalny from prison. Biden and Blinken chastised Putin for meddling in U.S. internal affairs, including the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. Now Volkov and Co. give every salacious detail about Lavrov’s mistress, accusing him of a gross abuse of power, using government funds for his depraved lifestyle. Volkov highlighted Polyakova’s vast real estate wealth and extravagant car collection.
Volkov alleged that Polyakova was wined-and-dined by Lavrov on official state business, traveling with the foreign minister all over the world on at least 60 international trips. Navalny’s investigators said Polyakova was so inseparable from Lavrov’s she’s referred to as Svetlana Lavrova, emphasizing her close ties to Lavrov. Volkov wants to get the public so riled up they start mass street demonstrations, hoping to put pressure on Putin to release Navalny from prison. Whether admitted to or not by Volkov, he’s now antagonized Putin and the Kremlin so much, it’s unlikely Navalny will get out of prison close to his actual release date. Saying Polyakova traveled with her mother, daughter and niece to France, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, Singapore, Portugal and Greece, the report completely falls apart. If Volkov claims Svetlana is Lavrov’s lover, why would he bring her mother along?
Whoever Lavrov chooses to travel on official Russian state business, it’s entirely his call, certainly not for Navalny’s hit squad to act like they’ve exposed more corruption in Putn’s Russian state. When Biden or his Vice President Kamala Harris travel with an entourage, U.S. tabloids aren’t itemizing all that attend, exposing widespread corruption in the presidential and vice presidential entourages. Whether Lavrov had an affair with Polyakova is anyone’s guess. Based on what Volkov released for public consumption, it doesn’t sound like too much of an affair when Polyakova drags along her mother and daughter. “Yachts, bribes and a mistress: What Minister Lavrov is hiding,” was the name given to Volkov’s new bombshell. Volkov accused Putin last year of owning a lavish Black Sea presidential palace costing the Russian people billions. Putin denied that he owned the property.
Nothing that’s reported by Navalny and what’s left of his insurgent group can be trusted. All the lies play well in the Western press, looking to help Navalny get out of prison, or, more importantly, help to get Putin out of power. Russian billionaire Arkady Rotenberg dismissed Navalny’s last video of the Black Sea resort, stating for the record he owned the property and would turn it into resort hotel in the next few years. But to Western tabloids, Navanly’s fabrications played well in the media, accusing Putin and now Lavrov of widespread corruption. Whether Putin or Lavrov occasionally run with Russian oligarhs like Oleg Deripaska, appearing on his yachts or luxury properties, doesn’t mean that they’re embezzling funds from the Russian state. Navalny’s past fabrications about Putin’s mega-luxury Black Sea villa indicate that today’s revelations about Lavrov are equally spurious.
Kremlin Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was asked about Volkov’s latest revelation about Lavrov. “Well, what can I say. First, the creators of these pseudo-investigations don’t hide their goals to destroy and demolish . . they’re all feeding on foreign grants. Their information campaigns are supported and overseen by intelligence agencies of those countries that call Russia their enemy,” Zakharova said. Whether admitted to or not by the Western press, they’re engaged, with insurgents like Navalny, in subversive activities, like claims that Putin owned the extravagant Black Sea resort. Watching Western news outlets pick up Navalny’s latest propaganda shows that they support ousting Putin’s government at the earliest time. Anyone that falls for Navalny’s rubbish shares his agenda, even from prison, of fomenting revolution in Russia to get rid of Putin’s 22-year reign of power.
