Vladislav Surkov and his wife
The Kremlin has no information that former presidential aide Vladislav Surkov is under house arrest, Russian leader's press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
« “We do not have such information”, — he said, answering the relevant question.
The fact that Surkov is under house arrest was previously reported, citing his own sources, by former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev on his Facebook page (owned by Meta, which is recognized as extremist in Russia and prohibited).
“Vladislav Surkov is under house arrest. Now investigative measures are being carried out in the case of embezzlement in the Donbass since 2014, — Ponomarev claims.
Surkov has worked in the presidential administration of Russia since the late 1990s, first as deputy head of the administration, then as first deputy head of the administration. From December 2011 to May 2013, he served as Deputy Prime Minister in the government. Since December 2013, he was an assistant to Russian President Vladimir Putin and oversaw the Ukrainian direction.
In February 2020, Putin fired Surkov from the post of assistant. Political scientist Aleksey Chesnakov, close to Surkov, then reported that the decision to write a letter of resignation was taken by a presidential aide because of the “change of course in the Ukrainian direction.”
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