https://threads.chez.work/en/Recent content on Chez unrollsHugoenChezRDTue, 12 May 2026 23:13:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/ashurkov-dud-obman/Tue, 12 May 2026 23:13:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/ashurkov-dud-obman/Analysis of a fragment from Vladimir Ashurkov&rsquo;s interview with Yuri Dud: what really happened with the Weybridge house, Calleri Ltd, and the bankrupt PNB Banka. The asset-stripping scheme, assignment of rights to Said Mehraik, and attempts to manipulate public information.https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/ashurkov-interview/Tue, 12 May 2026 15:00:00 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/ashurkov-interview/The London School of Bullshitteryhttps://threads.chez.work/en/posts/manifesto-of-the-sated/Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:07:19 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/manifesto-of-the-sated/<h2 id="arno-forbids-you-to-grieve">Arno Forbids You to Grieve</h2> <p>I didn’t catch it personally, but I think many recognize the genre of the Soviet editorial: «While cosmic ships plow through the vastness of the universe, certain unconscious citizens indulge in petty bourgeois moods!»</p> <p>The text birthed by the Free Russia Foundation, signed by Natalia Arno, Vladimir Milov, and a longtime noname declared as the foundation’s vice-president, Grigory Frolov, is an absolute, distilled classic of this genre. Only instead of «builders of communism,» we now have «globalist visionaries,» and instead of «petty bourgeoisie,» we have the trendy word «resentment.»</p>https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/pace-platform/Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:35:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/pace-platform/What forced Volkov and Kats to agree with each other? A PACE document that turned out not to be about democracy, but about a cynical attempt by the West to create a certified, safe, and absolutely pliable sparring partner for dialogue.https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/tylenol-side-effects/Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:29:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/tylenol-side-effects/The Trump administration&rsquo;s corruption campaign against Tylenol creates a false and dangerous choice for pregnant women.https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/debati-bez-temi/Sun, 07 Sep 2025 15:00:26 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/debati-bez-temi/Reznik and Katz&rsquo;s debate is a clash of two eras: the old opposition mired in ritualistic squabbles, and the new, pragmatic politics that tactically wins but strategically risks isolation, substituting unification with replacement.https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/reputation-institute/Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:52:54 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/reputation-institute/<div class="tweet-link-section"> <a href="https://x.com/ChezRD/status/1956680337980821626" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="tweet-anchor"> <span class="tweet-label">link to tweet</span> </a> </div> <h2 id="hottentot-selectivity">«Hottentot» Selectivity</h2> <p>In any healthy political environment, the «reputation institute» is a mechanism of accountability. It is based on a simple principle: your words and actions have consequences that determine the level of public trust in you. It is a system of checks and balances that, like an immune system, rejects unethical, dishonest, and incompetent actors, preventing them from lingering in the public sphere. But in the Russian opposition, this mechanism has mutated into its opposite: it has become not an immune system, but an autoimmune disease that devours healthy cells while protecting cancerous tumors.</p>https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/half-life-chronicles/Mon, 11 Aug 2025 19:17:26 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/half-life-chronicles/This text is not an investigation or an indictment. Rather, it is a personal attempt to reflect on what has happened and to understand how we got to where we are. It is an attempt to assemble a coherent picture from the fragments of facts and my own feelings, in order to stop deceiving myself.https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/mcfaul-interview/Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:57:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/mcfaul-interview/An analysis of the double standards and hypocrisy of Michael McFaul, who demands from Russians what he himself is incapable of, and judges an entire nation by standards his own country has never met.https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/questions-to-maria-pevchikh/Wed, 21 May 2025 17:52:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/questions-to-maria-pevchikh/Leonid Volkov claimed that they (Zheleznyak’s firm) put all their efforts into Noon Against Putin, and that is why it succeeded. This is false.https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/zheleznyakgate-part-one/Mon, 07 Apr 2025 03:05:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/zheleznyakgate-part-one/I set out to compile, in chronological order, every on‑record mention of Alexander Zheleznyak or Sergey Leontiev I could find on YouTube and add context that many may have missed due to the lack of adequate coverage.https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/probiznesbank-vyvod-aktivov/Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:24:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/probiznesbank-vyvod-aktivov/An overview of key aspects of asset stripping from Probusinessbank (PBB). Analysis of schemes via DMBL, OCIL, BCS Cyprus, Larienta, Lankora, links to investigations by Maxim Katz and The Bell, plus previously unnoticed episodes and the hole in the bank’s balance.https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/lankora-and-falcon/Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:26:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/lankora-and-falcon/A previously little‑known scheme to siphon around USD 50 million from AKB Probusinessbank via Switzerland’s Falcon Private Bank. Deal specifics, the Central Bank’s role, and what ultimately happened to Falcon.https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/solodkiy-gave-himself-away/Fri, 24 Jan 2025 09:11:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/solodkiy-gave-himself-away/By the way, Nerses rightly pointed out to me this morning that here Solodkiy slipped up again, admitting that Leontyev was not involved in the “Navalny’s card” project.https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/who-is-david-aminov/Thu, 28 Nov 2024 04:03:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/who-is-david-aminov/Aminov, David Isakovich, Doctor of Law, Professor; Academician of the Academy of Military Sciences.https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/a-chto-tam-drugie-svideteli/Thu, 28 Nov 2024 03:53:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/a-chto-tam-drugie-svideteli/A review of the testimony by the bankers’ hired “expert” David Aminov, retained to challenge the statements of former Probusinessbank employees Alekseev and Krylova in a New York court.https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/vazhnost-affidavita/Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:48:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/vazhnost-affidavita/Why did Vladimir Ashurkov’s sworn statement, as FBK’s executive director, become decisive in the Probusinessbank case? We break down how a single witness helped avoid a hearing on the merits under the pretext of “political persecution,” and what that meant for depositors.https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/what-makes-me-sad/Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:13:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/what-makes-me-sad/Reflections on FBK’s actions and public speakers in the context of Leontyev, Zheleznyak, and Probusinessbank. This is not about politics, but about justifying crimes.https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/tokmakov-and-larienta/Mon, 04 Nov 2024 02:03:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/tokmakov-and-larienta/This is a story about yet another scheme for siphoning assets out of Probusinessbank. If I were asked to show what corruption looks like, it would look exactly like in this photograph.https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/tokmakov-za-pevchikh/Sun, 03 Nov 2024 10:29:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/tokmakov-za-pevchikh/Few people know that behind Maria Pevchikh stands Sergei Tokmakov. Few know he was the irremovable director of the now-liquidated Larienta Management Limited, which nearly brought down Binbank.https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/probiznesbank-likbez-2/Thu, 31 Oct 2024 14:23:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/probiznesbank-likbez-2/Clarification of key elements of embezzlement using the case of Probiznesbank and a response to criticism from FBK and Professor Mironov.https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/probiznesbank-likbez/Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:44:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/probiznesbank-likbez/A professor breaks down the main arguments in defense of Probiznesbank bankers and explains why they do not refute the fact of illegal withdrawal of funds.https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/probiznesbank-khishchenie-a-ne-risk-shifting/Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:20:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/probiznesbank-khishchenie-a-ne-risk-shifting/In an article by ‘The Insider’ and in an interview between Andrey Zayakin and Alexander Plyushchev, two questionable narratives emerged about the asset diversion from Probusinessbank. The first — about alleged ‘risk shifting’, the second — about the impossibility of confirming theft due to the ‘disappearance without a trace’ of the money. Here’s why this was not risk shifting but straightforward theft, backed by legally structured offshore schemes, and why such claims raise serious questions.https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/affidavit-ashurkova-and-navalny-card/Mon, 07 Oct 2024 12:32:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/affidavit-ashurkova-and-navalny-card/Once again (hopefully for the last time) I’m writing a thread about the “Navalny Card,” about Ashurkov’s “affidavit,” and how bankers use Vladislav Solodkiy’s story.https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/about-ledorub-article/Wed, 02 Oct 2024 12:34:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/about-ledorub-article/I was looking for information about Sergei Leontyev’s lawyer, who apparently devised the defense strategy with publications in the business press ahead of trials in Western countries — Jonathan Reich, an employee of Grid Market Research owned by Leontyev.https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/pnb-ashurkov-calleri-strannaya-istoriya/Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:25:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/pnb-ashurkov-calleri-strannaya-istoriya/A property deal in London executed by Calleri Ltd before PNB Banka’s 2019 bankruptcy became publicly known in 2021. Why do media and blogs keep mixing up the facts? We review the data and reports.https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/about-kvitman/Thu, 08 Aug 2024 23:27:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/about-kvitman/Kvitman is Zheleznyak’s personal assistant (and also his personal interpreter). She used to be named Evgenia Sokolova.https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/polden-protiv-putina/Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:30:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/polden-protiv-putina/Leonid Volkov claimed that they (Zheleznyak’s firm) threw all their weight behind Noon Against Putin, and that’s why it succeeded. This is false.https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/about-kovalenko/Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:19:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/about-kovalenko/There is a paintball club called RUSSIAN Legion aka Boston RED Legion, now simply RED Legion. Its story goes back to 2004. It was founded by one Sergei Leontyev (ring a bell?).https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/ashurkov-lied-about-navalny-card/Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:16:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/ashurkov-lied-about-navalny-card/You didn’t ask, but I’ll repeat it: Vladimir Ashurkov lied in his affidavit about the “Navalny card.” That testimony underpins the defense narrative of Zheleznyak, Leontiev, and Lomov—to avoid repayment of the stolen funds.https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/how-meetings-must-end/Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:39:49 +0300https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/how-meetings-must-end/Every rally must be converted — into a resolution, a petition, minutes, any bureaucratic format that fixes the will of those gathered.