Verstka and the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) published investigations a day apart into the property of Alexei Zhuravlev, the head of the pro-government Rodina party. It was Rodina's lawsuit that prompted the Supreme Court to remove the federal list of the Yabloko party from the election. In his official declaration, Zhuravlev reported an annual income of only seven million rubles, 78,000 rubles in bank accounts, and a BMW motorcycle.
Verstka found real estate worth more than 100 million rubles registered to Zhuravlev's ex-wife, Elena Zhuravleva, and their daughter. This includes an apartment on Novy Arbat, four parking spaces, a one-room apartment, and three non-residential premises totaling over 400 square meters in a residential complex in central Voronezh, as well as two more apartments in that city. According to leaked data, Elena Zhuravleva was not engaged in business and received 39,000 rubles a month at her last job in 2023–2025.
Officially, Zhuravlev is currently unmarried. Verstka calls Evgenia Shaimova his "secret wife," who bore him two children in 2014 and 2016. Shaimova was found to own two apartments and five parking spaces in the Rublevskoe Predmestie residential complex (worth more than 100 million rubles), as well as two plots, a house, and an unfinished building near Yalta—another 50 million rubles. Zhuravlev was also listed on the insurance policy for a Mercedes owned by Shaimova.
From 2013 to 2017, Shaimova worked at the ANO "Eurasian Integration," founded by Zhuravlev. The organization managed 3.6 billion rubles allocated from the budget for social facilities in unrecognized Transnistria, a Russia-backed separatist region of Moldova. In 2015, Shaimova bought a 40-square-meter apartment on Novy Arbat, and in 2017 she transferred it to the deputy's first wife.
FBK also claims that Zhuravlev is in a relationship with his assistant Tatyana Kalegina. Investigators found an apartment in Krasnogorsk, a Porsche Macan, and a Toyota Land Cruiser registered to her. Kalegina's mother, who according to FBK earned about 70–80 thousand rubles a month, owns a townhouse in the Moscow region worth over 50 million rubles. FBK found an apartment in Gelendzhik worth about 20 million rubles and several million rubles in bank accounts registered to Shaimova's mother.
According to sources within the party cited by Verstka, Rodina's main interest after Yabloko's removal is to overcome the 3% threshold in the Duma elections. If successful, the party would receive 152 rubles from the budget for each vote it gets, totaling about 250 million rubles annually. One party insider said this prospect has already attracted some former allies to Rodina, and current members are already discussing how to spend the funding.