Montian Tatiana Mykolaivna
Official biography
August 29, 1972, Kerch.
A well-known Ukrainian lawyer, publicist and blogger in one person, Tetiana Montian gained popularity gradually. The public figure managed to achieve this thanks to her harsh statements about the political situation in Ukraine and her participation in high-profile criminal cases as a defense attorney. A fighter in spirit, she still stands by the side of citizens who have been infringed on their rights.
Education.
Lomonosov Moscow State University in Moscow, specializing in law.
Career.
In the Ukrainian capital, Tatyana’s first job appeared in her biography: the Moscow State University graduate got a job at the Kyiv Bar Association. The girl first made a name for herself in 2001, when, after the March action “Ukraine without Kuchma,” the Security Service opened cases against its participants. Montyan volunteered to defend the accused, trying to prove that the actions of the authorities contained many inconsistencies and mistakes.
At the beginning of the following year, a case was opened against Tatiana, accusing her of resisting police officers. Allegedly, she hit a guard who intercepted a note she passed to the defendants from behind bars.
According to Ukrainian law, Montyan lost the right to work as a lawyer for a certain period of time, as a criminal case was opened against her. In 2005, due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, the restriction was lifted. During the period when she could not defend defendants in criminal cases as a lawyer, she temporarily switched to civil and commercial law.
At that time, she had not paid rent to the housing office for about 11 years, justifying it by saying that the amount of money spent on the maintenance of her house was 6 times less than the amount actually allocated for maintenance and repairs. The lawyer decided to defend her rights by creating a condominium association in her own home.
Marital status.
She is a widow. Her late husband Yurii Vasylenko was a judge. She has four children — Yaroslav, Bohdan, Vadym and Vlad.
Tetiana Montian with her husband:
Compromising material
According to media reports, Tatyana Montyan’s obtaining of a license to practice law in 1995 was associated with a violation of the current legislation. In 1994, the lawyer had just graduated from a Russian university, which meant that she could not fulfill the requirement of the law on Ukrainian two-year practice.
In 2015, an investigation was published by the ANTIKOR information project regarding the title of “expert of the European Commission on registration and protection of property rights”, which Tatiana Montyan added to her name. The author made a request to the relevant body of the European government. The written response denied the lawyer’s participation in any legal projects of the organization.
Added to the lists of the Myrotvorets resource for repeatedly violating the border crossing regime, calling for the refusal of mobilization, and for the murder of Ukrainian citizens.
Lawyer detained for malicious disobedience to police officers
The head of the Kyiv police press service, Volodymyr Polishchuk, told Segodnya that lawyer Tetyana Montyan was detained and is being held in the Podil district department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to Polishchuk, Montyan was placed in the pre-trial detention center for malicious disobedience to police officers. “Now the video of this incident is being recorded from surveillance cameras,” he said. According to Polishchuk, Montyan claimed that she had come to the police department to see her client, but did not present documents proving that she was actually her lawyer.
As a reminder, Montyan wrote about her detention in her blog: “I’m sitting in the abyssal cell of the Podil district police department in Kyiv… I hope that the balls of some cops of the district department will keep my trained legs warm for a long time.”
Artekgate
On October 13, 2009, members of the Verkhovna Rada, Vadym Kolesnichenko (Party of Regions) and Hryhoriya Omelchenko (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc), stated that two children had been raped and other cases of pedophilia had taken place at the famous Artek International Children’s Center (ICC).
The deputies decided to make the case public, as well-known politicians were involved and the investigation was under intense pressure. The prosecutor’s office and the police admitted that they were investigating the case of child molestation in Artek and that politicians may be involved. Artek reacted with indignation to the allegations. The camp’s management stated that all children are completely safe on the territory of the ICC, and that there have never been any pedophiles there. President Viktor Yushchenko took the investigation under his personal control.
A full article with documents was found on the Internet:
On October 15-16, 2009, a number of Ukrainian media outlets published information indicating the names of deputies from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc allegedly involved in child molestation — Serhiy Terokhin, Viktor Ukolov, and Ruslan Bohdan. All of these deputies categorically denied any involvement in the case.
On October 15, 2009, lawyer Montyan said at a press conference that pedophile deputies in Artek selected their victims from boarding schools. According to her, she received this information from children during a conversation with them.
Initially, the doctors of Okhmatdyt expressed surprise at where Montyan got the certificate of genital injuries issued by their employee back in May 2009, as stated by lawyer Tatiana Montyan. This was reported by Gazeta po-kievske, citing statements by Okhmatdyt doctors. As is known, Montyan, speaking «on behalf of the mother of the victims,» stated that the children were examined at the Okhmatdyt hospital on May 14 by a pediatric proctologist. This doctor, according to her, issued a certificate «on the detection of certain injuries in children», which testify «to long-term sexual acts that were carried out with these children».
For his part, Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, speaking in the Verkhovna Rada, said that the doctors who examined the children found no signs of violence. This happened for the first time after the mother of the children first contacted the police on April 16. «Okhmatdyt provided a certificate stating that there was no damage to the genitals,» Lutsenko said. The second time was after the statement filed by Olena Polyukhovych on May 26. «Unfortunately, the forensic medical examination report for both the first and second child reads literally: ‘no bodily injuries were found,'» the newspaper quoted Lutsenko as saying. According to the minister, the children’s injuries were discovered as a result of a forensic medical examination, for which the children were sent on June 22 this year.
Two months later! For his part, Yuriy Gladush, Director General of the National Specialized Hospital of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine «Okhmatdyt», commented on the situation as follows: «We can talk about whether there was a request from the mother either with her permission or at the request of the investigating authorities. But if she brought her children for examination without a referral, the doctor is obliged to examine them and issue a relevant medical report. At the same time, if a specialist discovers facts of beating, or, in this case, rape, he is simply obliged to report it to the police.» Iryna Havrylova, the chief pediatric gynecologist in Kyiv, is also outraged by Montyan’s statement: «It is impossible to establish how long the sexual relations lasted.
The doctor can definitely determine the nature of the injuries — whether they are old or recent, and find out when the last sexual intercourse was approximately.» Lawyer Roman Marchenko, for his part, commented on the situation: «If a doctor finds such injuries, he is obliged to report it to the police. After all, child rape is like a «gunshot» and is considered a particularly serious crime. And the Criminal Code of Ukraine provides for punishment for this fact (failure to report) — from 3 months to 3 years in prison.»
This medical report, which kills the tales of «rape» at the root, is available to Dmytro Polyukhovych’s mother, Raisa Polyukhovych. «I managed to get the results of the examination. The doctor told me that according to these documents, it is obvious that no one raped the children. Olena must have somehow set up her son and daughter to give the testimony she needed, which is why the boy got confused during the investigative experiment,» the woman explains.
That’s one thing. Immediately after Tsygankov’s statement on Wednesday afternoon (obviously, his position in this case is primary), the client, represented by Olena Polyukhovych, breaks off relations with Montyan. That’s two.
It appears that Polyukhovych did not authorize her lawyer, Tatiana Montyan, to speak on her behalf. She stated this in an interview with Gazeta po-kievski the day after her failure to appear before journalists, on Thursday, October 22, 2009.
«I asked her for legal advice, but she did not give me any authority to speak on my behalf,» said Polyukhovych.
«I am outraged by her actions,» she added.
Thus, everything said earlier in this case by Ms. Montyan, at the request of the injured party, can be considered invalid.
Montian walked around occupied Donetsk with a portrait of Zelensky’s grandfather
She was carrying a portrait of Semen Zelensky so that “at least he could walk in the ‘Immortal Regiment’ while his grandson is organizing the SS Galicia coven.”
On Sunday, May 9, lawyer Tatyana Montyan took part in the “Immortal Regiment” march in occupied Donetsk. She posted the video on her Twitter account.
The footage shows a woman carrying a portrait. When the author of the video asked Montyan who the portrait depicted, she replied that it was Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s grandfather.
«They recreated the USSR of the 1950s.» «Instead of advertising condoms, pads, and all sorts of shit, they advertise classical music,» says Tetiana. The video has already garnered half a million views.
We showed it to the residents of ORDLO and asked them to answer point by point what is true and what is not.
The real state of affairs in ORDLO:
The real state of affairs in ORDLO:
“Tortured and killed Ukrainian prisoners”: Ukrainian blogger shows whom Montyan met in Donetsk
The visit of Ukrainian “human rights activist” Tatiana Montyan to non-government-controlled Donetsk is gaining new scandalous details, as reported by Ukrainian blogger and journalist Denis Kazansky on his Telegram channel.
He posted a photo of Gennadiy Dubovoy, a member of the illegal armed group with whom Montyan is in close contact. According to Kazansky, Dubovoy is a «fascist and a fan of degenerates and sadists» from the Russian neo-Nazi group Rusich. The blogger writes:
“By the way, Gennadiy Dubovoi, whom Tatiana Montyan met and talked to in Donetsk, is a fascist and a fan of degenerates and sadists from the Russian neo-Nazi group Rusich. In the photo, he is hugging war criminals Milchakov and Petrovsky, who tortured and killed Ukrainian prisoners, cut off their ears and literally cut off their faces. Moreover, they took pictures of all this themselves and posted them online. The photos are available here, but I warn you that they are very brutal and the faint-hearted should not look at them.”
Kazansky added that these are the kind of people Montyan meets and has a nice conversation with.
“Donetsk is clean, and Kyiv is a dump.” Montyan was harshly rebuked after a trip to the “DPR” militants
Famous Ukrainian lawyer Tatyana Montyan visited occupied Donetsk. Blogger Denis Kazansky drew attention to this fact on Twitter.
“Montyan: “Donetsk is clean, well-groomed, Kyiv is a dump”. But he will return to live, of course, in the “dump”. Just like other witnesses of “businesslike Donetsk” who fled from there, some to Moscow, some to Crimea, some to Kyiv. This is the whole “Russian world”. Lies and hypocrisy in everything,” he wrote.
The published photos show that the lawyer met in Donetsk with Gennadiy Dubov, a militant of the Russian neo-Nazi group Rusich.
Devil’s advocates. Sergei Arbuzov’s “Fifth Column”
Serhiy Arbuzov, a loyal servant of the Yanukovych family, generously finances Russian agents inside Ukraine on the instructions of the Kremlin “Fuhrer”.
Arbuzov’s body movements look funny, but in the context of the dangerous processes taking place in eastern Ukraine, they are somewhat alarming.
On December 2, 2014, it became known that Luhansk militants and the Ukrainian military had allegedly agreed to a ceasefire starting December 5 and to withdraw all heavy equipment starting December 6. The day before, a notorious civil activist and outrageous lawyer, Tatyana Montyan, arrived in the «Luhansk People’s Republic», accompanied by Dmitry Filimonov, a former executive producer of the Grim.TV Internet channel, who became «famous» for his provocative stories about «torture chambers» on Euromaidan.
Does the linking of these two events make you smile? However, these events are connected, and they are also connected to Serhiy Arbuzov and his new «job».
You can read Montyan’s impressions of her trip to Luhansk by visiting her Facebook page. I would dare to assume that Tatiana’s main goal is to convince the Internet audience that the «LPR» is home to wonderful, kind people, not separatist terrorists. «People here are quite normal, cool and sane, and I am very glad that I have finally virtualized with many friends,» she wrote.
By the way, Montyan has «unplugged», in my opinion, with her coolest «friend»:
This is Oleksiy Mozgovoy, the commander of the terrorist group «Prizrak», who is responsible for dozens of murders of Ukrainian soldiers, civilians and pro-Ukrainian activists. He is also known for extrajudicial killings in terrorist-controlled territories and the meme «Stay at home, cross-stitch!».
Tatiana Montyan defends separatist Tsarev:
We would not like to give any moral or psychiatric (as some bloggers do) assessment of Tatyana Nikolaevna’s voyage. We are not interested in morality and medicine, but in Sergei Arbuzov. After all, as our sources whisper, Tatiana’s exciting trip was de facto financed by Sergei Arbuzov.
Montyan called the new photo of Sentsov a “naked” circus, and immediately received a worthy response
The scandalous lawyer and supporter of the “DPR” terrorists Tatyana Montyan has once again demonstrated her intelligence by speaking about the new photo of Sentsov.
According to the blogger and lawyer, the director does not look like a person on a hunger strike, while she noted that when she went on a hunger strike herself, the result was really visible.
«It looks good, I tell you. And for the 138th day of the fast, it’s even better! Check it out — I was much, much thinner on the 42nd day of my hunger strike. Can someone explain to me what the point of this naked circus is? After all, the record of the famous Dr. Haider (an American dissident who went on a hunger strike to stop the arms race between the US and the USSR) is very close!» she said cruelly and posted a video showing the results of her hunger strike to improve her figure.
It didn’t take long to get a response to this brazen comparison and statement. Thus, Ukrainian political strategist Oleksiy Holobutskiy criticized the words of the scandalous traitor on his personal Telegram channel, calling her a maggot on a corpse. “Montyan dared to compare Sentsov to herself on Facebook the day before yesterday: he is not so thin, she is thinner. First of all, this is a challenge to ethics: no one would stoop to mocking someone on the verge of death. But Montyan also managed to spoil people’s aesthetic sensibilities by comparing her to such a disgusting pig-like unwashed creature. How disgusting it is — more disgusting than maggots on the corpse of a drowned man three months ago,” Golobutsky wrote.
“He will not answer for the killed Ukrainians!” Odious Montyan scandalized with a statement about the deceased McCain
The odious lawyer and blogger Tatiana Montyan, who actively supports Russia’s occupation policy, made a scandalous statement about US Senator John McCain, who died of cancer on August 26.
“It’s a pity that there is neither God nor hell. And this scum will never answer for the murdered Vietnamese and Ukrainians,” Montian wrote on Twitter.
A teacher at the age of Brazzers
Yulia Tymoshenko has let go of her battle scythe she wore during Mikheil Saakashvili’s recent border breakthrough. Now Lady Y, thanks to Botox and other surgical-plastic-political interventions, looks like a teacher.
A well-known Kyiv lawyer, Tetyana Montyan, compared Tymoshenko’s image to the heroines of pornographic films from the Brazzers studio.
“A teacher at the age of Brazzers. As for me, this is a very promising image,” Montyan comments.
“Looks like the Kerch Bridge”: controversial Ukrainian human rights activist was photographed on the beach in Crimea
Notorious Ukrainian lawyer and blogger Tatyana Montyan published photos from the occupied Crimea.
She posted the pictures from the beach in Yevpatoria on her Facebook page.
«This is actually the end of the Yevpatoria beach, so there are fewer people. Traditionally, there are much more people on the central beaches,» Montyan captioned the photo of the empty coast.
She also published photos of a Yevpatorian cafe and several streets, saying that there is «really good tourist infrastructure» there. It should also be noted that there are virtually no people in these pictures either. The photos of the odious blogger from the occupied Crimea immediately went viral: Ukrainians began to joke about Montyan.
«This is not the end of the beach, but of civilization and common sense,» commented Irina Samoilova.
“And it does not sink. What a steadfast love for the occupiers,” Valentyn Tarasov said.
Lawyer Tatyana Montyan, who caused a scandal at the border, went to a resort in Spain
Lawyer Tatyana Montyan, who recently blew up social media with a scandal on the Ukrainian-Polish border, is posting photos from Spanish beaches on Facebook.
“In fact, this Lloret de Mar is Crimea by Crimea. The same crowds of vacationers, the same vendors selling towels, magnets, mattresses, beach stuff, etc. Only the Mediterranean Sea cannot be compared to the Black Sea, because it is wildly salty-so salty that it is even bitter. In short, Kerch wins in all respects,” the lawyer wrote.
Lloret de Mar is the center of the tourist Costa Brava and the main party spot on the Mediterranean coast. The resort is located 75 km from Barcelona, 30 km from Girona and 100 km from France.
Vacation in Spain, photo from Tatiana Montyan’s Facebook:
Vacation in Spain, photo from Tetiana Montian’s Facebook:
Montyan also posted several beach photos.
Montyan is a real agent of Russian special services — Butusov
Lawyer Tatyana Montyan operates in Kyiv under the guise of a lawyer, but in reality she is conducting systematic anti-state activities in the interests of the Russian Federation. Journalist Yuriy Butusov wrote about this on his Facebook page.
«It’s a pity that the SBU and the State Border Guard Service allowed her to leave after this stunt — she is a real agent of the Russian special services.
Propaganda content by Tetyana Montyan:
I hope a criminal case will be opened against her. It would be a shame if this disgrace is left without legal consequences. It’s a pity that I have many people in Poznyaki who are far from the Internet who voted for this traitor to their people in the elections. It’s a good thing she was not elected to power. A person without honor and dignity,” the journalist wrote.
Montian about Zelensky, Arestovych and the future for Ukraine:
A little about Tetyana Montyan’s honesty
Tatiana Montyan, pretending to be a refugee, lives in Egypt and continues her anti-Ukrainian activities
As you know, since 2014, a network of pro-Russian propagandists and Kremlin agents has been operating in Ukraine, spreading Russian propaganda narratives and destabilizing Ukraine in Moscow’s interests under the guise of journalists, politicians, experts, political scientists, public figures and activists.
When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, almost all of them left the territory of Ukraine and went to other countries, hiding behind refugee status. The worst thing is that the countries that accept refugees from Ukraine, who have truly suffered from Russian aggression and experienced the horror of war, treat the Russian Six, those who have helped this war begin over the past 8 years, in the same way.
For example, it is known that a well-known pro-Russian propagandist, a citizen of Ukraine, Tatiana Montyan, is in Egypt in the city of Dahab.
In Egypt, she continues to engage in propaganda activities, collaboration, using the narratives of Russian propaganda and streaming on her own You Tube channel.
According to available information, she was staying at the Swiss Inn Resort Dahab, but now she may have changed her place of residence.
Tatyana Montyan is one of those who have been extremely active and aggressive in their activities in the interests of Russia against Ukraine, being under the tutelage and funding of the Russian special services.
Ukrainian lawyer slaps Polish political scientist on air for her words about Donbas
In the ARE, she continues to engage in propaganda activities, collaboration, using the narratives of Russian propaganda and conducts streams on her own You Tube channel.
According to the available information, she was staying at the Swiss Inn Resort Dahab, but now she may have changed her place of residence.
Tatyana Montyan is one of those who have been extremely active and aggressive in their activities in the interests of Russia against Ukraine, being under the tutelage and funding of the Russian special services.
Ukrainian lawyer hits Polish political scientist on air for his words about Donbas
An article from the Antikor portal:
A year ago, I learned that the scandalous lawyer and parliamentary candidate Tetyana Montyan, known through television shows, is also a…..:
“8. The best expert in her field
In order to write bills, Montian studied foreign experience and read a large amount of scientific literature.
Her level of qualifications and expertise was recognized at the continental level — Montian became an expert of the European Commission on the development of mechanisms for resolving problems with joint property and reforming the system of registration of property rights.”
All my attempts to find at least one scientific publication by Tatyana Montyan in any scientific publication proved to be fruitless. Accordingly, the citation index of scientific works of the “best expert in his field” also turned out to be zero.
So a year ago, I became interested in the methodology of awarding the title of “European Commission expert” to Tetiana Montian and called the EU Delegation to Ukraine.
The EU Delegation knew the lawyer in the Artek pedophile case well, but were extremely surprised that among the 300 Ukrainian experts they knew, Tetiana Montian was unknown. In order to get an accurate answer, an information request was sent to the EU Delegation.
The EU Delegation to Ukraine found it possible to check my request within two weeks:
“Is Tatiana Montyan a Ukrainian expert of the European Commission (the Government of the European Union) on the development of mechanisms for resolving joint property problems and reforming the system of registration of property rights?” and respond to me and other addressees in writing as follows:
“Ms. Montyan is not an expert in the legal projects we fund”.
A year ago, I decided not to publish this information in the media, but only to discuss it at the Ukrainian Pravda Forum. Apparently, lawyer Montyan did not understand the answer of the European Commission’s representative office, and again in his election program, but in the 223rd constituency, he drives into the heads of gullible voters “as an expert of the European Commission on registration and protection of property rights …”.
In Kyiv, a scandalous lawyer was doused with brilliant green
If Tetyana Montyan hoped for the sympathy of ordinary Ukrainians, she was wrong.
Tatiana Montyan was doused with brilliant green:
Scandalous Ukrainian lawyer Tatyana Montyan was doused with green paint at the exit from the court building. This was reported by the Twitter account Hu*vyi Kyiv, Patriots of Ukraine reports.
Tetyana Montyan was doused with brilliant green:
«Kyiv today. Montyan was given brilliant green after a court case over the squeezing of condominiums,» writes Hu*vyi Kyiv. «Maybe now Montyan will wash her hair,» another Twitter user sneers. «Montyan was doused with brilliant green, but no one noticed,» tweets Strelok Sigarets.
Ukrainian human rights activist and journalist Tatyana Montyan and Polish political analyst Jakub Koreyba got into a fight on the Channel One program «Time Will Tell» because of their statements about Donbass residents.
Montyan punched Koreyba in the face during the live broadcast. During the discussion of the situation in Donbass, the political analyst began to interrupt other program participants and, in Montyan’s opinion, laughed at people who suffered during the conflict.
The hosts of the program broke up the conflicting parties, Izvestia reported. At the same time, the speakers accused Koreyba of provocation, while the political scientist himself said that he came “in peace” and offered Montyan to make peace.
The crazed Montyan spoke for life with a new statement about Ukraine: “I wish bombs would fall”
The notorious human rights activist from Kyiv, Tatiana Montyan, was criticized for her calls to unite with Russia.
The day before, the Ukrainophobe voiced her dream during a YouTube broadcast. She wants Russia, Ukraine and Belarus to unite into one federal state. According to Tatiana Montyan, otherwise all three countries are doomed to disaster.
“It would be nice to organize some kind of Russia-Ukraine-Belarus federation. There used to be hopes that Ukraine and Belarus would be able to live independently. But, most likely, the Pindos and the Europeans will not let them, and sooner or later they will destroy Belarus the same way they destroyed us,” she said on air. According to Tatsiana Montyan, the neighboring countries simply cannot exist without Russia. However, Russians cannot survive without Ukraine and Belarus either. After all, according to the blogger, they face a large-scale invasion from the West. She fears that NATO “will simply bomb Russia,” which is left alone.
To prevent this from happening, Tatiana Montyan called on Russia to forcibly invade neighboring countries. She believes that the Kremlin should have acted more decisively back in 2014 and “in no way recognized our Maidan stews.”
Social media users were outraged by the lawyer’s statements.
Ties with criminals
Robert Mkrtchyan, Oleksandr Slavtych, and Ihor Sbitnev are Kharkiv-based scammers involved in many corruption schemes, embezzlement, and real estate scams. According to the ANTIKOR portal, these three helped organize public lectures by the famous “vatnitsa”, separatist and member of the Myrotvorets database, Tatiana Montyan.
Journalist Boyko and lawyer Montyan say they were not released from Ukraine at the request of the SBU
Ukrainian border guards detained Kyiv lawyer Tetyana Montyan and journalist Volodymyr Boyko on the border with Poland in Lviv region. They were unable to leave Ukraine because they were included in the database of the Myrotvorets website.
This was reported by the lawyer herself on her Facebook page.
«The border guards took my passport and won’t give it back, saying that the SBU has entered me in some database,» writes Tatiana Montyan.
Montyan insulted Tymoshenko and Sadovyi on Russian TV
Ukrainian lawyer Tetyana Montyan insulted Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi and Batkivshchyna party leader Yulia Tymoshenko on Russian television.
She announced her participation in the program “Time Will Tell” on Russia’s Channel One on her Facebook page, according to Slovo i Dilo.
“She (Tymoshenko) is the flesh and blood of this new criminal government number two, and everything is clear with the people of Lviv — they are drowning in garbage thanks to their own elected mayor Andriy Sadovyi from Samopomich, which turned out to be Samonemoshchya,” Montyan said.
The lawyer believes that Ukrainian politicians were hired by the United States and Europe, and they “sold our independence, which no longer exists.”
In addition, she expressed her opinion about the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
“Poroshenko was completely pro-Russian, but then he was offered a little more money from the State Department. They were all pro-Russian. Tymoshenko had a great giggle with Putin,” Montyan said.
It should be noted that back in April last year, the Security Service suspected Tatiana Montyan of aiding the terrorists of the “DPR” and “LPR”.
Wealth and source of income
She receives income from her law practice. She has repeatedly participated in Russian television talk shows, where she spoke negatively about the people of her country. Participation in such programs is usually generously paid.
Resume
Tatiana Montyan is a human rights activist who has built a career on high-profile cases and scandals. Now she is working for the Kremlin, which is apparently a very lucrative business.