Rakhim Azimov has represented Russia’s Kirov region in the State Duma for the past ten years. Nearly 75% of the region’s roads fail to meet official standards, but judging by Azimov’s public record, this does not seem to concern him very much.

His family’s finances, meanwhile, are doing remarkably well.

We found approximately 2 billion rubles’ worth of real estate registered to Azimov’s children.

In 2024, his daughter Arina Azimova bought a 595-square-meter house in the elite Beresta gated community on the banks of the Moscow River. Next door, her brother Aziz acquired a house of more than 1,100 square meters.

Arina also owns two apartments with a combined area of 348 square meters in the luxury Poklonnaya 9 residential complex on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. We estimate their value at around 400 million rubles. Aziz owns a 153-square-meter apartment worth roughly 500 million rubles in Bunin, one of Moscow’s most expensive residential buildings.

The funniest part is that, according to official records, Azimov himself owns just one piece of real estate: a 46-square-meter garage. Registering expensive property in the names of adult children is convenient — it means a lawmaker does not have to explain where the money to buy it came from.

And the children are only part of the story. We found an estate on Rublyovka registered to Azimov’s wife, an apartment in Dubai registered to his brother, and property belonging to a woman with whom the lawmaker has travelled abroad dozens of times.

We also found that Azimov regularly used private jets belonging to billionaire Dmitry Mazepin, the owner of Uralchem, where Azimov himself worked before beginning his political career.

Now Rakhim Azimov wants another five years in the State Duma. He has decided to leave Kirov behind and is preparing to run for parliament from the Moscow region instead.

Russia does not need lawmakers like this. Exposing who they really are and how they live is our job.