Activists Occupy Luxury Biarritz Villa Owned by Putin’s Ex-Son-in-Law

THE GUARDIAN: Pair say they have changed locks and will offer property to Ukrainian refugees fleeing war

One of the activists on an upper-floor balcony of the Alta Mira villa in Biarritz with a Ukrainian flag. Photograph: YouTube
Two Russian activists have broken into and occupied a luxury villa in Biarritz owned by Vladimir Putin’s former son-in-law.

Pierre Haffner, of the Svoboda Liberté Association, whose blog appears on the Mediapart news website, and Sergey Saveliev entered the eight-bedroom Alta Mira property in the French coastal resort, popular with Russian oligarchs. They announced on social media that they had changed the locks and would offer it to house Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war.

The property is said to belong to Kirill Shamalov, a Russian billionaire and former husband of Putin’s younger daughter Katerina Tikhonova. Haffner and Saveliev claimed to have found one of Shamalov’s passports and a translation of a Moscow electricity bill. » | Kim Willsher in Paris | Monday, March 14, 2022

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France – Biarritz in the 1920s: A Day at the Beach in 1928 | Enhanced

Sep 21, 2021 • Travelling back in time to the ’Roaring 20s’. Biarritz in France on a September day in 1928.

By the 1920's, the coastal resort of Biarritz on the Côte Basque in France attracted the fashionable and wealthy during the summer and early autumn. Those who could afford it, stayed at the Hôtel du Palais which was originally a summer villa built for Empress Eugénie. Her visits turned Biarritz into a popular summer resort.

This film starts with clips from a hotel overlooking the beach, then a street fashion show. We then move down to the beach for a walk among the sunbathers and swimmers.

In just a few years over the 1920's, women's swimsuits had evolved considerably when compared to those seen in our recent video "A Day at the Beach c.1921". The r\’Roaring Twenties’ saw seismic changes in clothing, style and social attitudes.

Published by GlamourDaze by kind permission of the University of South Carolina. Their generosity and support in this restoration project is hugely appreciated. AI restoration by GlamourDaze.com Filmed September 22, 1928 A Fox News Story