On April 12, the website of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny released an investigation into the hidden international wealth of conductor and Putin confidant Valery Gergiev. The report is the latest in a series authored by Navalny’s team which, as the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project notes, do not constitute neutral journalism—a video version of the Gergiev report is posted to YouTube with the title card “Free Navalny”—but nonetheless “expose the corruption at the heart of the Putin regime” with skill and accuracy. The following is a summary of the Navalny team’s Russian-language investigation and the allegations it contains, including large-scale fraudulent misappropriation of charitable funds. 

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This summary was written by a Russian journalist who prefers to be identified by a pseudonym in light of the recent crackdowns on independent Russian media.