Putin Wines for More

In the winter 2021, Alexei Navalny released an almost two-hour video showing Russian President Vladimir Putin's 1.4 billion dollar mansion, or a "17,691-square-meter castle," on the Black Sea coast, and Navalny finally 'unbottled' the TRUTH opening it to the world.

On the opening day of the Beijing Olympics on 8/08/2008, Vladimir Putin's Russia invaded its neighboring country (and the birthplace of wine grapes) Georgia. This Russo-Georgian War was the first European war of the 21st century, and it is a conflict that continues today. Russia still occupies 20% of Georgia's land.

This region is the ancient 'vineland' of Greek lore where 'Jason and the Argonauts' went to the state of Colchis in search of a golden (wool) fleece. Yes, the actual people in the Colchis used wool/fur to filter gold out of rivers and streams. They seem to still be doing so today. Some mythology is true, or at least it is based on truths. A reflective view of history would say that this epic tale, written by Apollonius of Rhodes off of the west coast of Turkey in third century BCE, is an 'origins story' for the ancient Greek culture itself.  

Who, what, when, and how these world's first grapes were taken to the rest of the Mediterranean ports for the creation of all of the variations of viticulture (grape production) ...are still being discovered one archeological find at a time. Though no singular narrative of the history of grapes/wine is widely known yet, it all started in the Transcaucasia region of the Colchis 8000 years ago. Today, the ancient Greek land they called 'Colchis' is the Caucasus Mountains, and it contains the three turbulent countries of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

The scandal-plagued 2014 Winter Olympics were held in Sochi, Russia at the midway point between those historic Georgian vineyards and Putin's aforementioned Black Sea coast palace. Vinetur magazine published on 8/19/2024 that Putin is building a "Wine City" next to that Olympic site in Sochi, in an another Black Sea coastal Russian city called Gelendzhik, and this development will, "feature the country's largest wine shop, an interactive wine museum, tasting rooms, a school for sommeliers and oenologists, an exhibition center, and even a boardwalk with a private beach."

Traveling north through the hole in famous and iconic Sail Rock at Gelendzhik, Russia, one comes to Putin's very new and Russo-celebrated Kerch Strait Bridge. It crosses the narrow opening of the Azov Sea and the entrance to the Ukrainian land that Russian invaded in the 2022. This bridge was formerly opened when Vladimir Putin very publicly drove a truck across it in 2018, after its very quick construction. The Ukrainians attacked this bridge in 2022, and it is still closed. 

The bridge connected the Crimean Peninsula, taken by Russia immediately after the 2014 Olympics, to Russia itself and the previously mentioned Gelendzhik-Sochi-Colchis Black Sea coast. 

Now, the world's greatest wine collection house, in the Massandra Winery in Crimea, was connected to the summer-and-winter resort areas in Sochi that Russia built for the Olympics in 2014. This Olympics was by far the most expensive games ever in its history at $ 50 billion. 

The Massandra Winery has 250-year-old wines, and one of which Putin shared with former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. It gave Putin a start for his wine-centric-mega-center that he was creating in Gelendzik.  They imbibed a 1775 bottle of Jerez de la Frontera worth $50,000-90,000  from its million bottle collection. Today, the collection is owned by Russia, which means Putin owns it.

In 2023, Putin overtly-planned to attack Moldova (a candidate state for the EU but outside of NATO) to create a connection to the region called Transnistria. Moldova has the world's largest wine cellar, at 2 million, called Milestii Mici.

Alexei Navalny uncovered the tale of Putin project(s). Vladimir has worked to conceal his ownership of the remote coastal Black Sea palace by using his peer-crony-oligarchs as 'proxy owners.' Under Putin's oversight, these oligarchs coordinated $30 billion of embezzlement from the 2014 Olympic funds.

The master planning of this great wine corridor from Georgia to Moldova grew from his prior theft of funds all the way back to St. Petersburg in 1992. This first grafted money was supposedly intended to buy food for empty grocery stores during the collapse of the Soviet Union, but it vanished. What followed was a couple decades of money pirated from Russia and deposited into the West by Putin's chosen plutocratic oligarchs. Any oligarchs who stepped out of Putin's sacred circle were eliminated. These uber-rich lost their yachts to US-led war sanctions during the current war between Russia and Ukraine. They have been sold to pay for the West's funding of Ukraine's war armaments.

St. Petersburg politician Marina Salye kept the documentary evidence of Putin's $122 million 'raw materials for food' scam, and yes, it ended without the food being brought into Russia for its grocery stores and the people. From the earliest days of Putin's rise to power, Salye went silent; however, the story of the scheme resurfaced in 2010. 

Salye died in 2012 and in that same year Putin bought an enormous and very expensive estate in La Zagaleta of southern Spain, just east of Gibraltar, and next to Rod Stewart's home. He razed the former mansion and built a 4000 square meter bohemoth mega-mansion. This location is conveniently nearby a local airport with direct flights to Moscow. Next, he established a vineyard for the production of some of the most expensive wine in the world - Pingus. That plan ultimately fell through.

Most of this current 'great wine corridor' goes back to when Russia banned the importation of wine from both Moldova and Georgia in 2006, thus starting all the current conflicts in this region.

These grapes of wealth have squeezed and pillaged much Europe's southern shores into a viniculture (wine production) highway that continues today, and Alexei Navalny revealed this fleecing a year ahead of the now three-year-old invasion of Ukraine.