Jakarta –
Russian President, Vladimir PutinHave car for the means of transportation. The details lie in leaks from media investigations, by scrutinizing intelligence documents, interviews and more.
As quoted detikINET from Insider, the price of this luxury Putin train is estimated at USD 74 million or around IDR 1.1 trillion. The yearly operational costs are around USD 15.8 million.
The train consists of 22 circuits, of which 8 cars contain technical equipment, including a communications center, satellite equipment and diesel engines. Other carriages include restaurants, cinemas, fine dining rooms and beauty rooms.
The office space is designed for soundproof conversations and is equipped with modern equipment. On all trains, telephone and internet services are protected by encryption tools to avoid eavesdropping.
It was reported that the television broadcast on this train had problems because the signal would disappear when passing through the tunnel or under the bridge. For that, a special system was created so that Putin doesn’t have to wait for the images to download.
One of the facilities on the Putin train. Photo: CNN
In the soundproof beauty room, reportedly equipped with some kind of anti-aging machine and the like. There are also devices for emergencies, from patient monitoring machines, ventilators and defibrillators. Putin is known to really care about appearance, so there is also a complete gym room.
Putin began to use trains more often because they were harder to track from planes. “The plane, as soon as it takes off, will be immediately tracked by the flight radar. As for the train, it can hide,” said Gleb Karakulov, one of the train’s engineers.
Karakulov said he first started working on the train to install communications equipment around 2014. It started to be used more frequently in the second half of 2021, as Russia prepares for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
According to Karakulov, Putin’s train has frequently parked near Valdai, a remote Russian region between Moscow and St. Petersburg, since the start of the war. Petersburg. Putin has a large residence there, which is famous for its lakes and forests. “Our employees are in special quarantine for this particular train,” Karakulov told the Dossier Center website.
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2023-07-11 06:45:39
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