Editing Vladimir Putin (section)

=== Residences ===
==== Official government residences ====
[[File:Barack Obama and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.jpg|thumb|Putin receives [[Barack Obama]] at his residence in [[Novo-Ogaryovo]], 2009.]]
As president and prime minister, Putin has lived in numerous official residences throughout the country.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/leaders-not-swapping-residences-13069 |title = Russian Leaders Not Swapping Residences |date = 5 March 2012 |first1 = Olga |last1 = Solovyova |website = [[The Moscow Times]] |access-date = 22 March 2017 }}</ref> These residences include: the [[Moscow Kremlin]], [[Novo-Ogaryovo]] in [[Moscow Oblast]], Gorki-9 near Moscow, [[Bocharov Ruchey]] in [[Sochi]], [[Dolgiye Borody (residence)]] in [[Novgorod Oblast]], and Riviera in Sochi.<ref name="residences">{{#invoke:cite|web|url = http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1576415/print?stamp=634719994045719457 |title = Тайна за семью заборами |date = 31 January 2011 |publisher = Kommersant.ru |access-date = 22 June 2013 }}</ref> In August 2012, critics of Putin listed the ownership of 20 villas and palaces, nine of which were built during Putin's 12 years in power.<ref name="Slave">{{#invoke:cite|news|last = Elder |first = Miriam |title = Vladimir Putin 'Galley Slave' Lifestyle: Palaces, Planes and a $75,000 Toilet |url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/28/vladimir-putin-palaces-planes-toilet |work =[[The Guardian]] |location = London |date = 28 August 2012 |access-date = 28 August 2012 }}</ref>

==== Personal residences ====
Soon after Putin returned from his KGB service in Dresden, East Germany, he built a [[dacha]] in Solovyovka on the eastern shore of Lake Komsomolskoye on the [[Karelian Isthmus]] in [[Priozersky District]] of [[Leningrad Oblast]], near St. Petersburg. After the dacha burned down in 1996, Putin built a new one identical to the original and was joined by a group of seven friends who built dachas nearby. In 1996, the group formally registered their fraternity as a [[housing cooperative|co-operative]] society, calling it [[Ozero]] ("Lake") and turning it into a [[gated community]].<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/02/how-the-1980s-explains-vladimir-putin/273135/# How the 1980s Explains Vladimir Putin. ''The Ozero group.''] By Fiona Hill & Clifford G. Gaddy, ''The Atlantic'', 14 February 2013.</ref>

A massive Italianate-style mansion costing an alleged US$1&nbsp;billion<ref name="'Putin palace' sold">{{#invoke:cite|news|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8359527/Putin-palace-sells-for-350-million.html |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8359527/Putin-palace-sells-for-350-million.html |archive-date = 10 January 2022 |url-access = subscription |url-status = live |title = 'Putin Palace' Sells for US$350 Million |work = The Daily Telegraph |date = 3 March 2011 |access-date = 5 May 2012 |location = London |first = Our |last = Foreign }}{{cbignore}}</ref> and dubbed "[[Putin's Palace]]" is under construction near the Black Sea village of Praskoveevka.{{when|date=March 2025}} In 2012, [[Sergei Kolesnikov (whistleblower)|Sergei Kolesnikov]], a former business associate of Putin's, told the BBC's ''[[Newsnight]]'' programme that he had been ordered by Deputy Prime Minister [[Igor Sechin]] to oversee the building of the palace.<ref name="Putin's palace">{{#invoke:cite|news|date = 4 May 2012 |title = Putin's Palace? A Mystery Black Sea Mansion Fit for a Tsar |publisher = BBC |url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17730959 |access-date = 4 May 2012 }}</ref> He also said that the mansion, built on government land and sporting three helipads, plus a private road paid for from state funds and guarded by officials wearing uniforms of the official Kremlin guard service, have been built for Putin's private use.<ref name="IBP-2014">{{Cite book |title=Russia: Russia president Vladimir Putin rule: achievements, problems and future strategies |date=2014 |publisher=International Business Publications |isbn=978-1-4330-6774-7 |location=Washington, DC |page=85 |oclc=956347599}}</ref>

On 19 January 2021, two days after [[Alexei Navalny]] was detained by Russian authorities upon his return to Russia, a video investigation by him and the [[Anti-Corruption Foundation]] (FBK) was published accusing Putin of using fraudulently obtained funds to build the estate for himself in what he called "the world's biggest bribe". In the investigation, Navalny said that the estate is 39 times the size of Monaco and cost over 100 billion rubles ($1.35 billion) to construct. It also showed aerial footage of the estate via a drone and a detailed floorplan of the palace that Navalny said was given by a contractor, which he compared to photographs from inside the palace that were leaked onto the Internet in 2011. He also detailed an elaborate corruption scheme allegedly involving Putin's inner circle that allowed Putin to hide billions of dollars to build the estate.<ref name="tmt-putin's-palace">{{#invoke:cite|web|url = https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/01/19/navalny-targets-billion-dollar-putin-palace-in-investigation-released-after-jailing-a72661 |title = Navalny Targets 'Billion-Dollar Putin Palace' in New Investigation |website = Moscow Times |date = 19 January 2021 |access-date = 19 January 2021 |archive-date = 19 January 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210119160300/https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/01/19/navalny-targets-billion-dollar-putin-palace-in-investigation-released-after-jailing-a72661 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|url = https://meduza.io/feature/2021/01/19/fbk-opublikoval-ogromnoe-rassledovanie-o-dvortse-putina-v-gelendzhike-vot-glavnoe-iz-dvuhchasovogo-filma-o-stroitelstve-tsenoy-v-100-milliardov |title = ФБК опубликовал огромное расследование о 'дворце Путина' в Геленджике. Вот главное из двухчасового фильма о строительстве ценой в 100 миллиардов |website = Meduza.io |date = 19 January 2021 |access-date = 19 January 2021 |archive-date = 19 January 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210119162405/https://meduza.io/feature/2021/01/19/fbk-opublikoval-ogromnoe-rassledovanie-o-dvortse-putina-v-gelendzhike-vot-glavnoe-iz-dvuhchasovogo-filma-o-stroitelstve-tsenoy-v-100-milliardov |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|url = https://tvrain.ru/news/fbk_opublikoval_rassledovanie_o_dvortse_putina_razmerom_s_39_knjazhestv_monako-522873/ |title = ФБК опубликовал расследование о 'дворце Путина' размером с 39 княжеств Монако |website = tvrain.ru |date = 19 January 2021 |access-date = 19 January 2021 |archive-date = 19 January 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210119222256/https://tvrain.ru/news/fbk_opublikoval_rassledovanie_o_dvortse_putina_razmerom_s_39_knjazhestv_monako-522873/ |url-status = live }}</ref> Since the [[prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine]], Putin prefers to travel in an armored train to flying.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|date = 13 February 2023 |title = That extra-heavy load Instead of flying, Vladimir Putin prefers to travel around Russia by armored train (allegedly for fear of Ukrainian attack) |url = https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/13/that-extra-heavy-load |access-date = 17 February 2023 |website = [[Meduza]] |language = en }}</ref>
<!-- === Speculations about mental health ===
The US intelligence psychologist [[Jerrold Post]] from the Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior of the CIA assessed Putin to be a "[[Narcissism|narcissist]]", a "brutally ruthless dictator" with "extremely calculating nature", the "meticulous pseudo-legal justifications for his actions". Putin was deemed to be obsessed with "masculinity, size, strength and power" and preoccupied "with size and strength is overcompensation for his underlying insecurity".<ref>{{cite book |last=Jerrold M. |first=Post |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OqIaBQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Jerrold+Post%22+%22putin%22+narcissism&pg=PA219 |title=Narcissism and Politics: Dreams of Glory; Putin the Great |page=219-220 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2015 |isbn=9781107008724}}
</ref> concealing this section per talk, see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Vladimir_Putin&oldid=1078878872#Vladimir_Putin#Speculations_about_mental_health. ~~~~.-->