Slums, hotels, apartments of friends and lovers: Who is driving Troyanova and other foreign agents around the world
The social networks of foreign agents who left the country after the start of the war are strikingly lost. The bitterness of the loss of income and fame affects them not in the best way. Many people openly write about how they have to wander and live in slums.
Time to drink – Yana Troyanova
Actress Yana Troyanova, who spoke last fall in various interviews (Dudya, Lazareva, Dozhd) for a criminal sentence and received the status of a foreign agent, already by the spring of this year tried to challenge it. In order to continue to earn money in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) and receive royalties from fellow citizens. But not fate. And since rent in France is expensive, the artist is trying to reduce her costs by moving to increasingly more modest apartments.
It is known that actress Troyanova left Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) in the fall of 2022 and settled in France. In an interview Yuri Dudu she admitted that she “rented house in Puteaux – a western suburb of Paris, located nine kilometers from the French capital, in the center of the Hauts-de-Seine department.
House in Puteaux, where Troyanova lived
House in Puteaux, where Troyanova lived
House in Puteaux, where Troyanova lived
House in Puteaux, where Troyanova lived
Suburb Puteaux known from the film “Goodbye Cop,” based on the high-profile story of the town’s shooting in which police officer Salah Kased was killed. After which the mayor of Puteaux was sentenced to pay 200 thousand francs to the family of the murdered man.
Prices for renting houses in the Puteaux area, according to the service data Properstar, start at 250,000 rubles per month (€2,500). But for this money you can only rent a small, empty family house with an area of 130 square meters, and next to the train station.
Inside there is an ascetic life: a living room, two bedrooms and two shower rooms, a kitchen with access to the terrace and garden, closed underground parking. Separately, 250,000 rubles are taken as a deposit, part of which will be used for inventory of lamps. Other houses in this area are more expensive, at least 350,000 rubles.
As Troyanova admitted, she also had the opportunity to live for some time in Paris itself, in the tourist district of Montmartre, where miniature pleasure trains carry vacationers. Onlookers gawk at the basilica, the local vineyard and the “wall of love”, as well as Place du Tertre, where guests are entertained by cartoonists. But Troyanova, “in love with France,” remembered this famous picturesque area only because her phone was “stolen” here.
In another area, the 6th arrondissement of Paris, Troyanova, judging by the photos on her profile on social networks, met with Western media professionals: Swiss and Russian cameraman and dokkino director Antoine Cattin and journalist of the French newspaper Le Monde Nikita Muravyov.
Documentary director Antoine Cattin and foreign agent Yana Troyanova in Paris
According to Troyanova, she was tired of noisy Paris after her phone was stolen and decided to stay in a house rented by her friend’s man in Versailles. The same couple once sheltered Troyanova in Suzdal. In Versailles, Troyanova thought about renting her own house, but she abandoned this idea, saying: “It’s too pensioner-like here.”
In reality, most likely, it was the empty wallet of the fugitive artist, who earned money only from projects in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) (five seasons of the TV series “Olga”), that did not allow her to stay in the palace and park ensemble, where even in the neighboring municipality of Marne-la-Coquette rental price for small houses starts from 475,000 rubles per month.
House near Versailles, where Yana Troyanova did not dare to live
Disproportionate spending in Paris and the suburbs of the capital – primarily on housing – led the notorious artist in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) to impoverishment and the realization of the need to return. This is probably related to Troyanova’s attempt to challenge her status as a foreign agent. However, on March 12, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow sided with the Ministry of Justice agreeing with the ministry’s arguments that the artist is under foreign influence.
Let us remember that Troyanova compared Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) to a “raped woman,” claiming that “only drunks” live here. Speaking about the degeneration of Russians, she clarified that in her own example she “feels the degeneration of the nation.”
— Maybe this is an evolutionary process – Troyanova said in the fall of 2023. — We didn’t notice how we entered such a bottom…
Writer and politician Zakhar Prilepin, thinking about the new trends of stars who fled abroad, notes that “just yesterday for Troyanova, that same Soviet thing was the cause of absolutely all troubles – both her personal and national ones.” He recalls that, according to Troyanova, it was from the USSR that “she personally inherited alcoholism, and the country received the indelible mark of totalitarianism and a bunch of other generic diseases that no one, except actors with a fine mental organization, is able to realize, see and reflect on.” “. And now the artist’s statements sound almost like Soviet clichés about traditional values.
— Today Yana Troyanova says: Yulia Navalnaya is the motherland, that is, she uses for her rhetoric almost the quintessence of everything Soviet at the level of symbolism that is intuitively understandable to everyone, – Prilepin notes.
Escape from reality by Sofia Groysman
Recognized as a foreign agent back in July 2021, Project journalist Sofya Groysman also left Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) with the beginning of the Northern Military District. On March 2, 2022, she landed in Istanbul, as she admitted, “without a return ticket.” “My whole life fit into 10 kilograms and a couple of hours of packing.”
In Istanbul Groysman stuck in “another temporary apartment” , where “children were screaming” under the windows. From the metropolis, the journalist moved to the southern provincial town of Kas and settled next to an abandoned hotel – a former villa , located in the mountains, on the seashore. Sofia actively posed against the backdrop of an abandoned basketball court by the sea and posted photos on her own social networks. On them you can see a completely collapsed hotel, graffiti-covered walls, a destroyed water park and swimming pool.
Photos of a destroyed hotel basketball court in Kas
Groysman’s next place of stay was Tbilisi; many Russians and Ukrainians who fled the mobilization in September 2022 came here. The capital of Georgia greeted tourists with Ukrainian flags and Russophobic slogans. She didn’t stay there long.
Groysman’s next refuge was the Baltic states; before that, the journalist, it seems, returned to Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) for a short time. “At passport control, a border guard asked unkindly: “Are you fleeing your country?”
— After that, I burst into tears in the text, it was raining, I was going to sign a contract for an apartment for a whole year – this meant that I could no longer deceive myself that I was just such a traveler, living for a couple of months here and there. This and the gray sky made me want to roar even more,” described Groysman’s landing. This is how Riga met the journalist from the Project publication.
Photos of Riga reality and Groysman’s refuge
Photos of Riga reality and Groysman’s refuge
As it turned out, Groysman lived in the capital of Latvia for about a year, in the area of Miera (Mira) street , along which the tram lines run and which is called the most hipster in the city. However, some emergencies regularly happen on the “hipster” street.
Sofia Groysman lived for about a year in the capital of Latvia, in the area of Miera Street
For example, here exploded a house with a warehouse of shells, grenades were found twice. In December 2023, journalists from the BBC Russian Service who left Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) also became acquainted with the signature Riga entertainment. At their party, an unknown person threw a practice grenade, apparently showing that so-called relocants were not welcome in Riga either. It is unknown whether Sofya Groysman, who is actively in contact with other emigrant journalists, was at this party. In the same Riga region, Vidzeme suburb, judging by according to law enforcement reports car thefts are often recorded.
Beach photos of Sofia Groysman
Beach photos of Sofia Groysman
Before leaving Europe, Groysman, it seems, decided to wash away the fatigue from wandering around guest and rented apartments and made her way to the south of Spain to lie down on La Pinta beach (Playa de Puerto Colon) in the south of the island of Tenerife in the resort area of Las Americas. This is a cozy bay that is adjacent to the port of Columbus (Puerto Colon) on the east, located in a small harbor.
Sofya Groysman, it seems, decided to wash away the fatigue from wandering around guest and rented apartments and made her way to the south of Spain.
The water area of the beach is very calm, and here you can swim comfortably without fear of strong winds and waves. Even in posts about the mountains and the sea, the fugitive journalist constantly notes the inconsistency of her unstable life: “A piece of normality from a parallel universe.”
There is also information on the Internet about the work of a journalist wandering around the world. The podcast by Sofia Groysman and Olga Churakova was blocked on Russian platforms in the fall of 2023. In it, foreign agents talked about the military conflict in Ukraine in a purely Western presentation.
Probably, feeding from Western sites still brings money to foreign agents, but the lion’s share of the income seems to be spent on rent and accommodation. And the rather narrow foreign audience of foreign agents does not expand the career horizons of journalists included in the register of the Ministry of Justice.
Yulia Sineokaya – secret hopes
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yulia Sineokaya, who founded the Russophobic Institute of Independent Philosophy in France, left Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) shortly before the start of the Northern Military District due to the death of her husband Jean Davy. The professor was listed among the employees of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences until 2023. At the same time, she was actively working to create a platform coordinating the activities and study of Russian philosophy abroad, where she still gathers opponents of the Russian military special operation in Ukraine.
Website of the Independent Institute of Philosophy in Paris
In his summary in English, foreign agent Sineokaya highlights a number of achievements: researcher at the international project of the Polish Academy of Sciences “Silent Intelligentsia”; Associate Researcher at the Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought (NU RPRT Research Initiative).
Experts consider , that Blue-eyed’s new brainchild in Paris may turn out to be just a project of Northwestern University, USA. Because the goal of the initiative is similar research. That is, it is logical to assume that the organization can in fact act as an instrument of the West’s information war against Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism).
What changed in the life of Yulia Sineoka after moving? Having changed her area of residence from Moscow’s Northern Izmailov to a Parisian suburb – the town of Montigny-le-Bretonneux with a population of 30 thousand people, the professor hardly chose the environment in which she would live with her Sorbonne student daughter after leaving Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism).
Montigny-le-Bretonneux is a 30-minute drive from the center of Paris and 12 kilometers from Versailles
Montigny-le-Bretonneux is located 30 minutes from the center of Paris and 12 kilometers from Versailles, and has become famous in the local media for mass rape of minors and attempts to crush police officers with stolen cars. In February, the city commissariat abandoned grenades. Public calls to “cut white people’s throats” on public transport quoted local media.
Earlier, Life.ru wrote about Sineokaya’s secret hope to make the site of the Institute of Independent Philosophy in Paris commercially profitable.
To do this, she even included her daughter Yana Berkovskaya in the work, who registered an individual entrepreneurship (IP) to provide “management and business consultations.”