READ HERE: Various media reports in Europe as well as US state-funded publications have observed and reported on an unusually high number of air defense systems around President Vladimir Putin’s secluded Valdai residence.

RFE/RL affiliate Radio Svoboda has claimed that’s were Putin’s girlfriend and their children live, according to a new investigation. “Satellite images and photos from the Yandex.Zerkala mapping service show at least 12 Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile systems, many mounted on elevated towers, encircling the compound known as Uzhin,” the Amsterdam-based Moscow Times writes of the report.