Peskov's daughter is interning at the European Parliament: deputies are dissatisfied

The daughter of Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, Elizaveta Peskova, has been working as an intern at the European Parliament for the last few weeks as an MEP from France. This position gives her full access to the premises and databases of the European Parliament. Including, to the internal computer network of the European Parliament and the internal network of the MEP, reports “Present Tense«.

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Peskova, who is currently 21 year, is officially registered as an intern at the office of MEP Emerik Soprad. Her name and surname are also publicly available on the website of the European Parliament.

Aymeric Shoprad confirmed to Radio Liberty that the daughter of an influential Russian official actually works on his team, and noted that this is her second internship in the European Parliament.

“Mrs. Peskova is, of course, the daughter of an important person in the Russian Federation. But as a student, she has no less rights than other young people who undergo an internship as part of their education,” the MEP said in response to a request from Radio Liberty.

“In addition, Ms. Peskova does not conduct professional activities in her country: neither in private nor in public institutions of the Russian Federation. Accordingly, there cannot be a conflict of interest in the performance of my mandate as a member of the European Parliament,” he noted.

Choprad is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, the Subcommittee on Security and Defense, and he is also a delegate to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. He never hid his pro-Russian position. During the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Choprad was one of the international observers at a Moscow-organized “referendum” in which the inhabitants of the peninsula accepted their desire to join Russia. Then he recognized the referendum as “justified”, although this contradicted the general position of the European Union.

Until the end of 2015, Choprade was a member of the National Front of Marine Le Pen's right-wing party and one of the party's candidates for the European Parliament. However, later Choprad blamed his entourage Marine Le Pen of anti-Semitism and became an independent MEP. He subsequently joined another right-wing populist group in the European Parliament, Europe for Freedom and Democracy (EFDD). It also includes the Italian Five Star Movement and the UK Independence Party (UKIP).

Who is Liza Peskova

Elizaveta Peskova is the oldest daughter of Dmitry Peskov from his marriage to Catherine Solotsinskaya, a daughter and granddaughter of Soviet diplomats. The couple married in 1994 and divorced in 2012, while for some time Solotsinskaya was the head of the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Paris.

According to an investigation by Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, Lisa, through the French JSC SIRIUS, owned 25% of an apartment in Paris bought by her mother. The apartment, according to FBK, was purchased for 1 million 300 thousand euros: 73% of the total cost was paid by Solotsinskaya herself, and the remaining 470 thousand euros were taken out as a mortgage from the French subsidiary of VTB Bank.

About his life and study in France Peskov said Olga, in 2016, saying that French schoolchildren “don’t try to bring a phone to the exam or find ready-made solutions.” Peskova also became famous for calling the Russian education system “hell,” causing a storm of condemnation among users in Russia.

After these words of hers, a bill was proposed to the State Duma proposing ban children of officials study abroad.

“If you are a government official, if you defend Russia, including at the international level, do not send your children to study abroad, thereby not believing in the future of Russia,” said the head of A Just Russia, Sergei Mironov.

Lisa is an active user of social networks and has 80 000 subscribers on instagrame, where she usually shows off the glamorous life in Moscow, Paris and Brussels.

Photo: Instagram stpellegrino

In its social networks there are no photos from the European Parliament, but there are videos from Brussels.

How much does Peskov receive and how did she get into the European Parliament

Trainees in the European Parliament receive a salary from the budget MEP, in fact, from the money of European taxpayers. It is the MEP who decides how much the intern will receive. The monthly staffing costs of a politician are about 25000 euros, but the maximum salary of one assistant usually does not exceed 1600 euros, although European deputies may hire unpaid interns.

The MEP is also responsible for registering the trainee. In order to obtain a temporary pass, it is enough to send a special form to the accreditation office of the European Parliament. According to Radio Liberty sources familiar with the procedure, this is a one-page document: it must be signed by the intern and a member of the European Parliament. It only includes basic information such as name, date of birth and ID details.

Further registration requires the signing of a contract between the trainee and the MEP, as well as the filing of three documents: an application for covering expenses, a declaration of insurance, and a certificate from the deputy. In it, he must, on his own behalf, confirm that the trainee has permission to stay in the European Union for the duration of the contract.

As a rule, the intern receives a permanent accreditation within three weeks after the submission of all necessary documents.

Emerik Shoprad, in whose office Elizaveta Peskova works, insists that all procedures regarding her were followed.

“This contract was approved by parliament and meets in all respects the obligations in this matter,” he explained.

Colleagues Soprad dissatisfied with the presence of Peskovoy

Most of the MEPs interviewed by Radio Liberty and Current Time journalists did not know that someone with close ties to a high-level Russian official was working unhindered in the European Parliament.

Sandra Kalniete, an MEP from the center-right European People's Party, the largest parliamentary group, calls the hiring of the daughter of the Russian president's press secretary as an intern "negligence" on the part of the relevant bodies of the European Parliament.

“This is a violation of the general security rules of the European Parliament,” Kalniete said in an interview with Radio Liberty.

She has already written an appeal to the leadership of the structure and called the situation “unacceptable” and “compromising the European Parliament as an institution.”

Petras Austrevicius from the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats believes that the presence of Elizaveta Peskova in the European Parliament is a “great shame” for the European Parliament. Austrevičius is confident that such an internship is “a clear financial connection between far-right groups in the European Parliament and the Kremlin.”

“I cannot believe that the Kremlin has its hand in the pockets and heart of the institutions of the European Union. “I was truly shocked by this behavior: it shows that the Kremlin, so critical of the EU, sends its children as a kind of agents of influence on political groups of the European Parliament, which I consider unreliable, politically corrupt and financially dependent on the policies of the Kremlin,” Austrevičius said.

Knut Fleckenstein of the center-left Socialists and Democrats group said that when people like Peskova become staff members of the European Parliament, it should be “publicly announced”:

“I serve on the same committee as this lady. I would think twice about what I tell her. If a family member of such an important person from the Russian Federation works among us, it should be public. This is the minimum,” Fleckenstein said.

The reaction of the father and presidential secretary Dmitry Peskov

When asked to comment on the critical statements of the European deputies Peskov, she stressed that she was an ordinary student who was undergoing regular practice.

“I would not like to comment on anything else, this concerns my daughter, this does not concern my official duties, my work,” said the Kremlin representative.

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