Leonid Volkov, who is responsible for the Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation **, including for collecting cryptocurrency donations, settled in the capital of Lithuania at least a year ago.

He himself announced his move to Vilnius in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel in August 2020.

However, at that time no assets of the oppositionist in another state were known.

In the spring of this year, as RT found out from the register of Lithuanian legal entities in the Lursoft database, Volkov became the director and owner of a company in Vilnius called Digital Duck.

The company is registered as an advertising agency.

Opening a legal entity in Lithuania is considered one of the easiest and cheapest ways to obtain a residence permit in this country.

At the same time, according to the assurances of companies providing this type of service, it takes about three months to register a company and obtain a residence permit for a period of five years.

After that, the owner of the legal entity will need to employ at least three citizens of Lithuania - pay taxes monthly and pay for accounting services. 

New species

The fact that Volkov received a residence permit is evidenced by a personal identification code indicated opposite his last name in an extract from the register of legal entities.

This is the so-called asmens kodas - a personal identification code that is assigned not only to citizens, but also to migrants with a residence permit.

Asmens kodas Volkova begins with the numbers 3801110. According to the rules for reading the code, the first number "3" means that this is a man born in the XX century.

The next six digits are the full date of birth, which coincides with the date of birth of the head of Navalny's headquarters, November 10, 1980.

On the website of the agency Digital Duck with the logo in the form of a toy duck, it is indicated that this is a service aimed at streamers, providing them with various opportunities for video broadcasts.

“The service supports everything: scrolling messages, pop-up images, text messages from users,” says the description of Volkov's services.

"The ducks floating on the screen decide!"

That is, Volkov's Lithuanian company "sells" the same animated ducks that floated on the Navalny.Live screen on YouTube, symbolizing the collected donations.

Favorite place of immigrants

The Lursoft statement also contains the address of the founder of Digital Duck Volkov - an apartment in a seven-story building on Egliu Street.

It is not clear from these data whether Volkov is renting this apartment or bought, but it clearly follows that he is registered. 

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The residential complex "Spruce Path", indicated by Volkov's registration address, was built in 2018 in a residential area of ​​Vilnius, which "the settlers fell in love with," as stated in the house's advertisement.

According to data from real estate websites, this house has different formats of apartments ranging from 25 to 62 sq.

m. The average price per square meter is € 1585.

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At the time of the construction of the house, the apartments were sold at prices ranging from € 44,000 to € 110,000. All apartments were sold out after construction, now you can find only individual offers for sale on the "secondary housing".

The apartment is 53 sq.

m is now on sale for € 125,000. 

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Residents are also given the opportunity to buy surface or underground parking.

Not far from the residential complex there is Vingis Park and the picturesque Vilkpede Hill. 

Bonus for US visa

Earlier, Volkov said that he would leave Russia only if he felt a threat to himself or his loved ones.

He left in the summer of 2019 after the "Moscow protests" ahead of the Moscow City Duma elections, probably out of fear of criminal prosecution.

Then the Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the laundering of about 1 billion rubles through the structures of the FBK.

In August 2019, according to media reports, investigators interrogated Volkov's wife, Anna Biryukova, in this case.

The newspaper Novaya Gazeta then clarified that Volkov and Biryukova left Russia in the same month. 

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The Lursoft legal entity registry does not contain data on taxes paid and other signs of the start of any business activity of Digital Duck.

The content of the site is a few lines of text and the contact details of Volkov himself.

This is how many Lithuanian resources look like, created not for real business, but only for the purpose of obtaining a local residence permit. 

Indeed, at the beginning of the year, Volkov had one more weighty reason to stay in Lithuania: on January 29, 2021, the Investigative Committee charged him in absentia with persuading minors to participate in protest actions (part 2 of article 151.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

In February, the Lithuanian Ministry of Internal Affairs refused to detain Volkov in this case at the request of the Russian side. 

The Lithuanian ID gives another significant bonus - it is much easier to get a visa to the United States, where Volkov regularly flies to seminars and meetings with the participation of representatives of the highest circles of the American government. 

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Earlier, RT reported that Georgy Alburov, an employee of the FBK investigation department, registered his company in Latvia.

She is engaged in ordering extracts from the register of legal entities of the Republic of Cyprus.

Having a business in Latvia also allows Alburov to apply for a residence permit in this country. 

* The organization is recognized as extremist, its activities are prohibited on the territory of Russia by the decision of the Moscow City Court of 06/09/2021.

** The Anti-Corruption Foundation was included in the register of NPOs performing the functions of a foreign agent by the decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation dated 09.10.2019. The organization is recognized as extremist, its activities are prohibited on the territory of Russia by the decision of the Moscow City Court of 06/09/2021.