Overview
- Sistema’s analysis of roughly 700 videos concludes that, since early 2025, most meetings labeled as from Novo-Ogaryovo were recorded in a near-identical office at Valdai.
- Investigators pinpointed locations using small visual discrepancies such as wall panel heights, door-handle placement, light-switch positions, and differing desk letter trays.
- Leaked emails cited by the report indicate state TV crews were dispatched to sites like Sochi even when broadcasts claimed the setting was Novo-Ogaryovo.
- The report says Putin visited the real Novo-Ogaryovo office only once this year for a meeting with parliamentary faction leaders and a recorded message for the Intervision contest.
- Experts quoted by the investigation argue Valdai is preferred for security because it is farther from Ukraine and easier to protect with systems such as Pantsir-M, with one analyst likening the secrecy to Saddam Hussein’s methods.