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Russian President and Honorary President of the International Judo Federation (IJF) Vladimir Putin is pictured during the opening day of the World Judo Championships in Budapest Papp Laszlo Sports Arena in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. The international sports event runs until Sept. 3. (Tamas Kovacs/MTI via AP)

Russian activist Navalny launches new attack on Putin

MOSCOW – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has launched a new YouTube corruption attack against Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Navalny’s video showed a lavish villa purportedly owned by a son of Putin’s friend that the president had allegedly used. The online video accusing Putin of corruption has been seen at least 2 million times since its release Wednesday.

The video included aerial footage of the seaside mansion surrounded by a large park near Vyborg, close to St. Petersburg.

It’s the latest in a series of YouTube videos by Navalny exposing alleged ill-gotten assets of senior government officials and Kremlin-friendly tycoons.

Navalny, who rose to prominence with his corruption investigations, has declared his intention to run for president in the March 2018 election. A conviction that he calls politically motivated bars him from running, however.

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