‘Working trips’: Team Navalny looks into Sergey Lavrov’s ‘female companion’ identified by investigative journalists

On September 14, investigative journalists from iStories identified an alleged Russian Foreign Ministry employee by the name of Svetlana Polyakova as the longtime "female companion" of Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The journalists discovered that several of Polyakova's friends got jobs in branches of the Ministry, while she herself accompanied Lavrov on a number of working trips -- some people even saved her contact information as "Svetlana Lavrova." Building off the iStories investigation, Team Navalny published its own deep-dive into the relationship between Sergey Lavrov and Svetlana Polyakova on September 16. Meduza summarizes their findings here. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/09/17/working-trips