House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) has demanded additional security for lawmakers, citing threats from "within" the House, while the temporary fence around the Capitol is on the way to becoming permanent.

"We will probably need a supplemental [budget] for more security for members when the enemy is within the House of Representatives, a threat that members are concerned about in addition to what is happening outside. It means we have members of Congress who want to bring guns on the floor and have threatened violence on other members of Congress." she said, not clarifying what those specific threats of violence have been.

Some 5,000 National Guard troops - of the 25,000 initially deployed in Washington, DC to protect Joe Biden's inauguration from threats that never materialized - are staying in the US capital indefinitely as well.

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The film begins with the biography of the president, drawing on the archives of the East German political police kindly opened by the BKA [Federal Crime Police Office]. The problem is that there is no connection between the documents exhibited and Alexei Navalny's discourse. They only contain illustrations (wish the exception of the KGB card of one of President Putin's companions).

Then the film takes us back to the palace using new images captured by a drone. Here again, these images fall short of illustrating Alexeï Navalny's point. They simply show a palace built by Italian architect Lanfranco Cirillo.

Finally, Alexeï Navalny displays blueprints, cost estimates and invoices for the Palace. The only thing they prove is that this residence is luxurious. But these facts have been known for a long time. The Russian opposition figure then claims that the property deeds are forgeries. After convoluted explanations, he purports that the building does not belong to billionaire Alexander Ponomarenko, but to President Putin, whom he calls "the richest man in the world".

Let us recall that the CIA had already accused Fidel Castro and Yasser Arafat of being secret billionaires. Forbes magazine had even confirmed such accounts which, after their death, turned out to be malevolent fabrications. Thus, the CIA attributed to Yasser Arafat ownership of the PLO funds that he managed in his own name, no bank being willing to receive funds from the Palestinian resistance. Everyone who knew Castro, Arafat and their families have never had any doubts about them.

The slipshod approach of the documentary does not argue in favor of Navalny.

Rotenberg, Putin's former judo sparring partner who sold his stake in gas pipeline construction firm Stroygazmontazh in 2019 for a sum which RBC business daily put at some 75 billion roubles ($990 million), said he bought the palace two years ago.

"Now it will no longer be a secret, I am the beneficiary," Rotenberg said in a video published by Mash channel in Telegram. "There was a rather complicated facility, there were a lot of creditors, and I managed to become the beneficiary."

He gave no further financial details of the purchase or how it had been funded.

He added that he intends to use the location as an apartment hotel, once it is finished.

"I like the hotel business...and have been involved in it for several years now," Rotenberg said, adding that he owns several 'objects' throughout Russia. He explained that the site in question has a troubled financial history, but he nevertheless acquired it a few years ago, putting faith in its "gorgeous" coastal location, near the resort town of Gelendzhik.

"This project is somewhat scandalous and difficult. But mark my words, in 12 or 18 months I'll invite you to witness for yourself what beauty it will be," he told Mash editor-in-chief, Maksim Iksanov, joking that the journalist may get a discount since he already visited the property.