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Investigation: A Putin Ally, Russia’s War Machine, And Luxury Villas In Dubai

Russian conglomerate Rostec makes many of the weapons of the war against Ukraine. Sergei Chemezov, its CEO and a Putin ally since their KGB days in East Germany, vacations with heads of Rostec subsidiaries who are his neighbors at a luxury villa complex in Dubai, an RFE/RL investigation found.

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The head of the Rosteh State Corporation, Sergei Chemezov, has a villa in a "daughter cooperative" in Dubai, which is reported by races...

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Sergei Chemesov, head of "Rosteh", has a "good cooperative" in Dubai, a cottage village in which his villa is adjacent to two similar ones belonging to Chemesov's defence colleagues, Nikolai Kolesov, head of the holding of the "Russian Helicopter" and Alexander Miheev, head of the "Russian Export Defence" research project "The System".

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Sergei Chemezov, the head of Russia's largest arms manufacturer, state corporation Rostec, as well as his associates, Rosoboronexport CEO Alexander Mikheev and Russian Helicopters CEO Nikolai Kolesov, own "ultra-luxurious" Italian palace-style mansions in the gated 22 Carats residential complex on the artificial Palm Jumeirah island in Dubai, the Sistema investigative project has revealed. Chemezov, who, according to a source close to him, spend…

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Meduza broke the news in Riga, Latvia on Thursday, July 31, 2025.
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