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Britain Calls Out Russia’s Top Diplomat for Secret Family

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Britain Calls Out Russia’s Top Diplomat for Secret Family

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3.24.22
Britain’s latest round of sanctions against Russia has gone above and beyond simple financial punishment, airing a bit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s dirty laundry in the process. In its list of the 65 new individuals and organizations targeted for “aiding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” the British Foreign Office appears to have made a point to call out Lavrov’s “secret family” in London, with its inclusion of Polina Kovalev, whom it describes as his stepdaughter. Kovalev’s inclusion on the list appears to confirm exhaustive reporting by Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny’s team that Lavrov, 71, has been living a “double life” for nearly two decades. One that includes a secret mistress, identified by Navalny’s allies as Svetlana Polyakova, an actress and a restaurateur who works for Russia’s Foreign Ministry. “A source in the foreign ministry told journalists that the whole ministry knows that this woman is Lavrov’s wife. And almost the most influential person in the foreign ministry. She can fire whoever she doesn’t like,” the report by Navalny’s team noted.

Polina Kovaleva is reportedly Polyakova’s daughter from an earlier marriage. She is said to reside in a lavish Kensington apartment she purchased for a whopping £ 4.4 million ($5.8 million) at the age of 21. The U.K.’s list of new sanctions also target Oleg Tinkov, the founder of Tinkoff Bank; Herman Gref, the CEO of Sberbank, the largest Russian bank; and Galina Danilchenko, who was installed by Russian forces as the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Melitopol. Danilchenko has also been sanctioned “for collaboration with Russian forces currently in Ukraine,” Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said. “These oligarchs, businesses, and hired thugs are complicit in the murder of innocent civilians and it is right that they pay the price,” Truss said in a statement accompanying a list of the targeted individuals.


The UK has added Polina Kovaleva, the "secret stepdaughter" of Russian FM Sergei Lavrov to its sanctions list.....

 
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