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It says the children are with Alina Kabaeva, a retired gymnast with whom Putin is long rumored to have had a relationship. According to the report, the boys' names are Ivan and Vladimir Jr.
Putin and Kabaeva — a former Olympic gymnast — have been linked romantically for years. The US Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned Alina Kabaeva, the rumored girlfriend of Russian ...
In April 2008, the Moskovsky Korrespondent reported that Kabaeva was engaged to Russian president Vladimir Putin. [59] The story was denied and the newspaper was shut down. [60] In the following years, the status of Kabaeva and Putin's relationship became a topic of speculation, including allegations that they have multiple children together. [36]
In 2008, Putin, then 56, responded to reports he had allegedly divorced his wife for a 24-year-old Olympic gold medal gymnast named Alina Kabaeva. Kabaeva was once known as "Russia's most flexible ...
On 6 April 2022, because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Tikhonova was sanctioned by the United States due to her being an adult child of Vladimir Putin. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] The United States Department of the Treasury stated, "Tikhonova is a tech executive whose work supports the [Government of the Russian Federation] and defense industry."
The family of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has served in office from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012, comes from the Russian peasantry. Spiridon Putin (1879–1965) was a cook in Gorky (now known as Nizhny Novgorod), his son Vladimir Spiridonovich (1911–1999) participated in World War II, and grandson Vladimir Vladimirovich (born 1952) made a career in the KGB and the FSB, before being ...
Mr Putin is also rumoured to have had children in an affair with Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva, which he has always angrily denied. In 2008, a Moscow newspaper was closed down within hours of ...
Alexei Navalny, who died in prison in February, was a fierce political foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, crusading against corruption and staging protests against the Kremlin. He had been jailed since 2021 when he returned to Russia to face certain arrest after recovering in Germany from nerve agent poisoning he blamed on the Kremlin.