Why did the girl and her boyfriend fear for their lives before leaving for England?

The poisoning of ex-GRU colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia remains one of the main mysteries of this year. What is happening to them now is a mystery that the British are in no hurry to reveal. In the meantime, we continued our mini-investigation in Russia: we found the last housing before leaving for Salisbury and Yulia’s abandoned car. And they found out that she and her boyfriend were afraid of something: Skripal’s car was hung with icons, and the couple did not leave the door to the vestibule on the floor open for a second.

When Yulia Skripal came to her senses after being poisoned, according to our information, she became hysterical - the girl was unable to reach her lover. It seems that Stepan did everything to disappear not only from her life, but also from the sight of others...

Yulia, her boyfriend Stepan Vikeev, rented an apartment on the 6th floor of a building a stone's throw from the Mozhaisk highway in early January. In Yulia's two-room apartment on Davydkovskaya Street (15 minutes' drive from here), renovations began, so the young people rented housing for a while. The owner of the apartment is businessman Alexey (he owns several shopping centers and other companies). The entrepreneur himself lives on Bolshaya Yakimanka, and, as neighbors say, he constantly rents out his home and makes repairs after each guest.

Yulia and Stepan moved in with two dogs (the girl has a mongrel named Noir, whose fate we have already told about, and the gentleman has a black dog of the diver breed). Here's what the neighbors on the floor say - Oksana lives nearby, who also has a dog:

- Usually the two of them walked the dogs together - either very early in the morning, or late in the evening, around 22.00. They'll walk near the trees and go home. Although Stepan’s dog is big, he needs to be chased properly. He once told me that my dog ​​was a very angry breed, but I replied that he was kind at heart.

— Was it clear what the relationship was between them?

“They didn’t share details of their lives. When we met, Yulia was silent the whole time; Stepan was more sociable. They dressed like ordinary people, preferring a sporty style of clothing. We noticed this peculiarity - Stepan kept closing the door to the vestibule, as if he was afraid of something.

— Did any guests come to the couple?

— They celebrated Stepan’s birthday on February 26th, they were friends. And Stepan’s mother Tatyana Vasilievna often appeared here (she closely looked after her son, this was confirmed to us by family friends and neighbors at the address in Podolsk - Author). She also had a thing about locking the door - about a month ago I went out with a bucket to take out the trash on the staircase, she immediately clicked the lock. And I am without keys, wearing slippers. She started calling the neighbors and she came out. I reproached - they say, well, what are you doing, I’ll just take two seconds. And she answered sharply that the door should be closed.

The entrance concierge, a strict pensioner Vladimir, whom not even a mouse can sneak past, swears that he saw Stepan a week and a half ago. Apparently, after this the guy quietly moved out. According to some reports, before this, on March 20 (the Skripals were poisoned on March 4), Stepan took away his things and his dog.

“The apartment is closed for now, investigators have not come,” says the concierge. — And Yulia was remembered as a taciturn person, often running back and forth with shopping bags. A large woman (we are talking about Stepan’s mother) often visited them.

Meanwhile, the fate of Yulina’s car, the Ford Kuga SUV, became clear. Yulia used the car on the eve of her flight to London - on March 2, when she went to work at a Krasnogorsk company producing food ingredients. By the way, she held a respectable position there - assistant to the founder of the company. And then the trace of the foreign car disappeared.

We found the Ford parked near the house, opposite the entrance. Yulia received her driver's license a little over a year ago. And, it seems, she was wary of driving – we saw several icons in the cabin. The car itself is locked (not sealed and has no signs of forced entry), and the keys are probably kept by Stepan.

Where does Vikeev himself live now? There is no one in the apartment at the place of registration in Podolsk near Moscow. Presumably, the guy, along with his mother Tatyana Vasilievna (remember, she heads the NGO Institute of Contemporary Security Problems) and his father, restorer Vladimir Stepanovich, moved to the dacha. The family avoids communicating with journalists in every possible way.

We managed to find out new details of the Vikeyevs’ biography. Stepan was born in the city of Donskoy, Tula region, where Tatyana Vasilievna is from. Stepan's maternal grandfather is WWII hero Vasily Iosifovich Piraev (born in 1919), awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. Another paternal grandfather, Red Army soldier Stepan Fedorovich Vikeeev (born in 1917) received the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree.

Stepan's father is from the Abkhaz village of Lechkop. As the local district police officer explained to us, the Vikeevs left Abkhazia before the start of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict of 1992-1993, and there were no relatives left there. It becomes clear why Tatyana Vasilievna treated her future daughter-in-law with some coolness - with such heroic ancestors, Yulia’s father would always remain for her, first of all, a traitor.

Stepan himself, however, did not achieve much career success by the age of 30. In 2010, he began his career as a sales and customer service manager in a product company, moved to the position of assistant manager in a financial company, and then became a leading researcher at the Department of Economic Sociology at the Institute of Senior Management Personnel (the institute is now deregistered). However, the guy has knowledge of Spanish (in 2006 he completed an internship at the University of the Balearic Islands) and defended his dissertation at Moscow State University. Lomonosov.

Let us remind you that the role of Stepan Vikeev in the story of the poisoning of Yulia Skripal and her father has not been fully clarified. In theory, he should have been interrogated by ICR officers long ago - after all, Russian investigative authorities opened a criminal case into the attempted murder of Yulia. And Vikeev is the last person Skripal communicated with before leaving for London. There are two options left: either Stepan was interrogated and recommended to lie low (Yulia also cannot contact him), or he is hiding not only from journalists, but also from law enforcement officers. And this already raises questions.

Lev Speransky, Ekaterina Sveshnikova

In many Soviet films of the era of stagnation about the civil war, an almost obligatory element was the white counterintelligence fighting the Bolshevik underground in the occupied territory. It seems that everything is simple, but at the same time, we immediately need to clarify the matter.

In the vast expanses of Russia at that time, from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean, the Whites had no counterintelligence! The specialized secret department was called... Military control, just like the Reds before the advent of special departments of the Cheka. During the civil war, a large army garrison was stationed in Novonikolaevsk, so it was impossible to do without military control. Judging by the films, the white secret agency must have occupied a huge mansion or one of the best houses in the city center. In the movies, everything is possible, even miracles, but in life, sometimes everything was wrong, or even completely wrong. It was the other way around!

The Novonikolaevsk military controllers could not boast of royal mansions, and they received office space a few weeks after the organization. On February 18, 1919, the military control point received the long-awaited “apartment”, which was located on Kuznetskaya Street, now Lenin Street, at number 14. Before this, the building belonged to citizen Zilberg, but after two sins (failure to clear snow from the house) at the end of 1918 the house was requisitioned by the city government for the secret service. The apartments of the secret department were a very, very modest house, consisting of two rooms. This can be judged by the size of the living space. The first room had dimensions of 2.4 by 2.2 fathoms. Fathom is a measure of length, a little over 2 meters. The second room was slightly smaller: 3.35 fathoms by 1.4. The total area of ​​the “mansion” of Novonikolaevsky military control was only 33 square meters. Interestingly, there was no dungeon for torturing and imprisoning prisoners. The apartment had only one Dutch oven and three windows. Unlike other houses, there were as many as two light bulbs - one in each room. The neighboring houses were lit by kerosene lamps.

The most surprising thing was that after the requisition the house was not handed over to new owners for a long time and was not protected. This circumstance was quickly taken advantage of by the nimble residents of Novomikolayevsk, who quickly “privatized” the glass from the window frames, the valve from the stove and the door to the small room. But all this was trivial. This is what the head of the military control point wrote in the report: “The said building was in disrepair. A large pile of garbage and all sorts of rubbish was found on the floor in the large room, and near the entrance there was frozen horse and human excrement.” After some time, the secret department's apartments were brought into proper condition.

The fighters of the secret white front worked in cramped conditions, but this fact was not advertised for a very long time. By the way, the house itself has not survived to this day; in its place there is now a “Supermarket”. We plan to talk about the apartments of the Novonikolaevsk Cheka, but a little later.

The beginning of the 90s of the last century. Ukraine is a powerful criminal center. The Odessa mafia group, led by Alexander Angert, nicknamed “Angel,” controls oil exports from the Odessa port, trades in weapons, takes away other people’s businesses, and even organizes the murders of political opponents and enemies. It turned out that members of this gang invested money in London real estate.

The beginning of the 90s of the last century. Ukraine is a powerful criminal center. The Odessa mafia group, led by Alexander Angert, better known as “Angel,” controls oil exports from the Odessa port, trades in weapons, takes away business from local entrepreneurs, and even organizes the murders of political opponents and enemies.

The mafia subsequently disappeared. Almost the only obvious trace of it was the political career of Gennady Trukhanov, a former member of the “Angert group”, and today the mayor of Odessa. Over time, the crimes of the Odessa group began to be forgotten, and the loot they stole, according to general ideas, disappeared.

That's how it was thought until now.

Using documents from a massive data leak known as the Paradise Papers, journalists from Slidstvo.Info and OCCRP, in collaboration with colleagues from BBC Panorama, conducted a new investigation. It turned out that members of the Odessa gang invested their money, obtained through dubious means, in London real estate. Journalists found 12 luxury apartments, located mainly in central London, into which Odessa residents have invested millions of dollars over the past 22 years. Four of these apartments have already been sold, eight continue to be owned by people associated with the Angert group.

The Ukrainian mafia worked through a trusted person in London, who opened and maintained their offshore companies. This helped to hide information about the owners and origin of funds.

Despite the fact that both Ukrainian and foreign media wrote about the activities of members of the Odessa group, the purchase of real estate was carried out without hindrance. This once again proves that London is still unable to adequately monitor the flow of dirty money.

Daddy cool

Three doormen wearing traditional English top hats greet residents and guests at the entrance to the luxury building at 199 Knightsbridge Road in central London. The building overlooks the famous Hyde Park. Just a few steps from the house is the Harrods department store, which is so beloved by the rich. Inside the building there is a huge lobby with luxurious sofas. Next is a 20-meter swimming pool, spa, sauna and gym.

Residents and visitors are greeted by doormen at the entrance to the house at 199 Knightsbridge Road.

- How can I help? — the man in the top hat asks us politely.

- We are looking for a person who lives here. You can help?

- What is his name?

— Anya Angert.

- Yes. Do you have an agreement with her?

“I can’t let you in without her permission.”

Within a few seconds, two concierges in the lobby of the house assured Slidstvo.Info reporters that Anya Angert did not live here. The concierges were not even convinced by documents from the UK real estate register, which indicate the opposite - Anya Angert owns three apartments in the building. The men insisted that they did not have an owner with that name. It is not known for sure whether Mrs. Angert really lives in her three apartments, since the concierges, despite her photo, shook their heads negatively. One of them even assured that he had been working here for six years and knew for sure if Anya Angert was the owner of an apartment in their building. Despite this, building employees still allowed reporters to leave a notification envelope for Madame Angert.

Documents from the registry, which reporters showed to concierges, indicate that in 2015, then 22-year-old Anya Angert bought an apartment on the 4th floor of the building for more than $1.7 million and owns two neighboring apartments, although the price for them is unknown .

In this house near Hyde Park, 25-year-old Anja Angert has three apartments

Anya Angert and her dog Monkey. Photo from her Instagram

The girl never mentions the names of her parents in her posts. She sometimes posts old photos with her father, which she simply captions as “daddy cool.”

Anya Angert with her father. Photo from her Instagram account

The real name of the “cool dad” is Alexander Angert, he is 62 years old. Outside the family circle, he is better known as a crime boss who controlled the Odessa port in the 90s and had enormous influence on the city along with another key member of the mafia group - Gennady Trukhanov, the real mayor of Odessa.

Seeing your apartment in a dream foretells cash receipts.

Changing your apartment for another means betrayal in love.

Someone else's apartment means that the person with whom you are in an intimate relationship is cheating or intends to cheat on you with your closest friend.

If in a dream you rent an apartment, in reality this foreshadows a wedding.

Not having an apartment means you will become interested in a dangerous business, tempted by big profits.

If someone is arrested in your apartment, this is a sign of surprises and surprises.

Taking on a tenant for your apartment is a sign that you will be included in the Don Juan list of your admirer.

If a tenant moves out of the apartment without paying you, you are in for trouble with men due to financial settlements.

Finding yourself in the hallway of someone else's apartment, waiting until the owner deigns to come out to you, is to be humiliated in reality.

Seeing yourself in someone else's bedroom means the jealousy of your husband or lover.

To dream of a rich and tastefully furnished apartment with an office and a large library - such a dream foretells that your desire to live better will be realized.

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Dream Interpretation - Apartment

Having it in good condition and with decent furnishings in a dream means that your business will go well.

Finding a new apartment or changing it in a dream is a sign of a change in occupation;

Renting an apartment in a dream means starting a new business;

Giving a “corner” to someone in a dream is a harbinger of obstacles in business;

Paying rent in a dream is a sign of retribution for something. Sometimes such a dream means separation from a loved one and deep emotional experiences.

Accepting rent in a dream is a sign that the past will remind you of itself. Sometimes such a dream means that you will have to do something that you left long ago.

It is possible that after such a dream you will meet a person whom you have not seen for a long time and who repents of his mistakes.

See interpretation: tenant, house, dwelling.

Back in 1939, having learned that the Germans would soon occupy Paris, a 23-year-old young woman in a hurry left her apartment in the capital. She headed south, where it was safer.

All these years, the woman regularly paid utility bills, but never returned. When in 2010, after her death, the heirs found out about the apartment, they were simply shocked as soon as they crossed its threshold.

In 1939, the owner of the apartment, Madame de Florian, was forced to leave Paris in fear for her life, because the city was in danger of being captured by German troops. She took with her only the essentials and locked the apartment.

After the end of World War II, the woman had the opportunity to return, but for some reason she did not. For 70 years, Madame de Florian paid rent for the apartment, but none of her relatives knew about her. The woman died at the age of 91, and only then did her family learn about the inheritance.

Auctioneer Olivier Chopin-Janvry was invited to evaluate the items inside the apartment. The specialist and his team were incredibly excited, because they understood that the apartment had not been opened since 1939.

With trembling hands, Olivier Chapin-Janvry turned the key in the keyhole, opened the door, and what he saw took his breath away.

Time seemed to stand still in the apartment. Furniture from the 1900s that has become antiques, cutlery, paintings taken from the walls. Perhaps Madame de Florian planned to take them, but she was unable to do so.

On the carved dressing table there were many cosmetic jars, hair brushes, and an alarm clock. All this is covered with a layer of dust and cobwebs.

The most valuable item in the Parisian apartment was a painting of a lady in a pink dress. As it turned out later, it was a portrait of the previous owner of the apartment, Madame de Florian’s grandmother, Martha de Florian. In the 1880s, she shone on stage, was known as a socialite and had admirers among the highest-ranking officials, including prime ministers and the president.

The portrait belonged to the brush of the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini. A letter from the painter with a declaration of love to Martha de Florian was found in the apartment there. This painting went under the hammer for $3.4 million. So it became the artist’s most expensive canvas. (higher)