The canvas captures the happy moment when signor Vladimir Droppingovich Turdoviev learns about new sanctions that will benefit his villas in Italy.
The phenomenon of the Russian world has always been that russia has never been self-sufficient. In Soviet times it bought or stole equipment and technology; in post-Soviet times it sold raw materials and kept the money in more developed countries, buying real estate there.
Russian patriots always drove foreign cars and dressed in foreign brands. The entire Russian elite owned real estate in developed European countries.
Vladimir Solovyov, a Russian propagandist, owned several villas in Italy, on Lake Como, and because of his activities, at some point Solovyov had problems with his Italian real estate.
