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The United States has targeted Putin’s daughters in a new sanctions package. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
After White House spokesmen announced last Wednesday the new actions that the United States plans to take in retaliation against Russia for the occupation of Ukraine, and their intensification after the Bucha massacre, measures that include actions against the daughters of Vladimir Putin, the world has begun to wonder: who are these two women?
Although the Kremlin has kept secret about the details of the family life of its top leader, some information has come to light after the imposition of sanctions against them was known.
About Mariya and Katerina, women included, along with the wife of Russian Foreign Minister Sergrei Lavrov, in the new list of sanctions by the United States and the West, little is really known; however, international media have pointed out that the measures have a more symbolic than effective meaning and that, rather than economically affecting Russia, they have opted to harm people in Putin’s close circle, a leader who has maintained his “special operation” in Ukraine for more than a month, despite constant calls from the international community to cease it.
Thus, the few data that have been revealed about Putin’s heirs indicate that women are professionals and enjoy a respectable social status within the Russian elite, however, as the Kremlin leader himself detailed in a statement years ago, they have not been marked by the trampoline of being the daughters of the presidenteven, this being an aspect that has been kept in reserve.
Putin’s daughters are the result of the relationship of more than 30 years that the Russian president had with his ex-wife, Lyudmila Putina, from whom he separated in 2013; they are currently 37 and 35 years old, respectively.
Although her father has warned that the women were educated in Russia, some sources cited by international media have distorted that assertion to point out that they were academically trained in Germany.
According to international media, Putin’s daughters were born in the territory now known as Saint Petersburg and in Dresden; territory of the former East Germany, at a time when the Russian leader was serving the KGB there, but that after the dissolution of the USSR, the Putin family moved to the city of Leningrad, to later send the young women to train in Germany under the tutorship of Mathias Warnig, a former agent of the former German Democratic Republic. This situation has been denied by the Russian president.
About the eldest of Putin’s daughters, Maria VorontsovaMedia such as Bloomberg have revealed that she would be close to turning 37 and that she is a doctor by profession.
Currently, Putin’s eldest daughter serves as director of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) center attached to the Moscow State University.
Regarding his family life, in turn, the referred international media indicates that Putin’s oldest daughter is married to a Dutch businessman named Jorrit Faasen, who would have a relationship with a Russian company called Stroitransgaz.
The publication indicates that the couple has lived in Moscow since 2015, clarifying that a long time ago too They lived in the Netherlands, more precisely in a region near The Hague, but they had to move due to social pressure after Russia was pointed out as the country responsible for shooting down, with a missile, a company flight. Malaysia Airlines which carried 294 occupants.
In particular, media such as The country of Spain, they argued that, at the time, a group of inhabitants came to demand the deportation of the woman.
Putin’s heiress?
About Putin’s youngest daughter, international media such as Archyde.com point out that this one, identified as Katerina Tikhonova, is a professional in physics and mathematics and is currently attached to a company in the health sector in Russia known as Nomenko.
About this woman, international media also revealed that she was an outstanding athlete and even came to represent her country in disciplines such as acrobatic dance.
Regarding his personal life, it has also been said that she was married to the son of a Russian oligarch close to her father, Nikolai Shamalov, a banking businessman belonging to the Russian elite and who would have cultivated a great fortune since Putin’s rise to power.
Katerina and Kilin Shamalov’s marital relationship lasted between 2013 and 2018, but finally ended up dissolving at a time when the family estate reached 1,800 million euros, favored by Putin’s influences.
The Daily Mail, of the United Kingdom, have also ensured that Katerina is a woman who finds herself being profiled by Putin himself as a possible successor to his power.a fact that would have been confirmed by people close to Putin, such as his biographer Natalia Gevorkyan.
According to international media, in this sense, Gevorkyan has pointed out that the eventual rise to power of Putin’s daughter is something that gives confidence to the leader and his close circle, even outlining her as the one chosen by the Russian leader for the 2024 elections. .
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