Putin's wife is now 2020, married for the second time

The personality of the Russian President is one of the most interesting and exciting not only for the domestic media, but also for foreign tabloids. Of course, interest is only fueled by the fact that Vladimir Putin served in the KGB in his youth, and the habit of keeping his personal life secret has been preserved since then.

Four years have passed since Russian President Vladimir Putin officially announced that his marriage with Lyudmila had come to an end and they decided to divorce. The couple separated exactly 30 years after marriage. And recently, rumors have begun to spread in the media that Putin’s new wife is the famous State Duma deputy and Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva. Despite the fact that both Kabaeva’s press secretary and the Russian President himself denied this information, rumors still spread thanks to the media’s love for “hot” news.

Putin's wife: the story of the first lady of Russia

Despite the reluctance of the Russian President to disclose details of his personal life, there is still a biography of Vladimir Putin on the official portal of the head of state. The article tells how the head of state, and at that time a promising and promising KGB officer, met his future wife. Lyudmila, whose maiden name was Shkrebneva, was working as a flight attendant at that time and, together with a friend, flew to Leningrad for a couple of days on a business trip. On this day, Putin’s friend called him to the Arkady Raikin Theater, noting that he had already gotten tickets and there would be girls at the meeting. There really were girls. One of them then became the first lady of Russia and Putin's wife.

After some time, the couple went to Dresden. The children of Vladimir and Lyudmila were also born there. As Putin’s wife later recalled, the future guarantor of the Constitution was very touching towards his daughters. “It’s rare to see such an attitude from a father to his children,” Vladimir Putin’s ex-wife shared her memories.

But over time, Vladimir Vladimirovich’s political career showed rapid growth and now, just nine years after the couple returned from Dresden, ex-Russian President Boris Yeltsin calls Putin his successor. The new head of state has more and more responsibility and less and less responsibility for his family. And if the grown-up children were able to come to terms with this situation, then the constant employment of the President of the Russian Federation and his busy work schedule turned out to be disastrous for the marriage. Putin’s wife sees her husband at home less and less: he is constantly busy, traveling and on business trips around the country or even other countries. At first, Vladimir and Lyudmila stopped appearing in the world together. And after some time, the Russian leader officially announced: Lyudmila Putina became his ex-wife. In 2013, the couple decided to divorce. It was noted that the decision was made jointly and even after the divorce they continued to maintain friendly relations.

Daughter of Vladimir Putin - Ekaterina Putina

Vladimir Putin’s daughter, Ekaterina Putina, was born a year after her sister in 1986, her mother is still the same Lyudmila Putina. The baby was born in the Dresden maternity ward, and was named after her second grandmother on her mother’s side.

This baby was even more diligently hidden from prying eyes, so they even gave her the surname Tikhonov. By the way, Katya was the complete opposite of her quiet sister, since she was active, sociable and easily made friends.

The girl entered the gymnasium at the Russian embassy in Dresden, drew excellently, played the piano masterfully, and knew German perfectly. Katya studied dancing, and her special love was sports rock and roll.

Tikhonova entered either Moscow State University or Leningrad State University, receiving a degree in oriental studies there. She began to travel and go on business trips to the DPRK, Japan, Korea, and engage in scientific activities and business.

At the same time, Katya devotes a lot to the development of the innovative and technical spheres of Moscow State University; according to rumors, she became the wife of Kirill Shamalov, deputy head of the Sibur concern. She gave birth, again according to unconfirmed information, to two children, but Putin neither confirms nor denies the presence of grandchildren from Katya.

Acute interest in Putin's personal life: who is his new wife

Of course, after Putin’s divorce from his wife, the topic of personal life again became one of the most discussed in the media. But divorce is a rather sad topic, even if Putin’s ex-wife admitted that the decision was mutual and she and Vladimir remained friends. Therefore, in order to attract public attention, one of the Moscow Correspondent journalists published an article under the flashy headline: “Putin’s new wife: today Alina Kabaeva conquered the Russian President.” This publication was first published back in 2008, five years before Putin’s divorce from Lyudmila. But the newspaper had to issue a refutation the very next day. Afterwards, the publication closed completely, as it finally lost the trust of readers after such publications. The information about the alleged wedding of Putin and Kabaeva was later denied by both the press secretary of the Olympic champion and the head of state himself. But since then, on the Internet, with varying frequency, there have been people who want to attract public attention, who again reported that Putin’s new wife is Alina Kabaeva.

New rumors began to spread in 2013, when the media reported about the allegedly secret wedding of Putin and Kabaev, who at that time was hardly called anything other than Putin’s new wife. According to some unreliable sources, the wedding took place in Valdai. There are even photos from the wedding of Putin and Kabaeva circulating online, but these pictures do not inspire serious trust, since even at first glance it is clear that they were all processed in a photo editor. At the moment, even elementary school students have no difficulty in drawing the desired head onto a body using the famous “Photoshop”, and doing it very talentedly.

Height, weight, age of Vladimir Putin

It is worth clarifying that such parameters as Vladimir Putin’s height, weight, and age attract special attention from the press and ordinary Russians. At the same time, a lot of controversy arises when looking at Vladimir Putin: photos in his youth and now, since one may get the impression that he not only does not change with age, but even gets younger.

Vladimir was born back in 1952, so he already celebrated his sixty-fifth birthday. The zodiac circle gave the future head of state the sign of Libra, which is distinguished by such character traits as goodwill, prudence, peace-lovingness, an increased level of intelligence, courtesy, and charm.

The eastern horoscope gave Vladimir the sign of an active, cheerful, charismatic, freedom-loving, intelligent, obstinate and stubborn Dragon.

Putin's height is one meter and seventy centimeters, and he weighs no less than seventy-seven kilograms. The President of our state is not only an excellent leader, but also an athlete, so he keeps his weight at the same level through sports and an active lifestyle.

What happened to Putin's wife Lyudmila

After the divorce, Putin's ex-wife Lyudmila completely disappeared from the public space. This is not surprising - even during her marriage to the head of state, the first lady of Russia admitted that she did not like everyone’s attention and tried to avoid photo shoots. However, her disappearance gave rise to a series of new ridiculous rumors. Some journalists claimed that Putin’s ex-wife went to a monastery. It was even reported that after the divorce, Lyudmila was able to find peace of mind only through constant prayers in one of the monasteries in Moscow.

But this, as in the case of Putin’s new wife, which included Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva, turned out to be just rumors. In addition, some time after the media “sent” Lyudmila to the monastery, new rumors began to spread online. This time, journalists assured that Putin’s ex-wife had remarried.

The question was even asked about this to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a direct line in 2020. The head of state, although he does not like to talk about his personal life, still answered the question. He admitted that he sometimes sees Lyudmila, and their relationship remains good. “Maybe even better than they were before,” the head of state added. He also noted that his ex-wife “everything is fine, she is happy with her life.” It is worth mentioning that in January 2020, the media reported that Putin’s ex-wife had remarried. According to media reports, Lyudmila changed her last name.

To confirm their words, the publications referred to extracts from Rosreestr about the right to an apartment in St. Petersburg, which belonged to the spouses. In 1997, ownership passed to Lyudmila Putina’s mother, in July 2020 to her sister, and in August a certain Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Ocheretnaya received ownership rights. Moreover, her place and date of birth, as well as her middle name and name, coincided with the data of Putin’s ex-wife. The alleged husband, Artur Ocheretny, who heads the board of the Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications and is under the guardianship of Putin’s ex-wife, refused to comment on the rumors. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov did not give any comments then.

Children of Vladimir Putin

The children of Vladimir Putin are loved by their parents because they were born in great love. The girls were the same age, but were born in different countries: the eldest in the USSR, and the youngest in the GDR.

The children of Vladimir Vladimirovich lived in such a way that they were not bothered by journalists, for example, they attended school and higher educational institutions under false names. At the same time, the girls’ mother tried to teach them to cook, sew and do household chores, because she wanted to get them out of the hothouse world in which their father hid them.

The girls were loved by their parents, they were instilled with a love of books and everything beautiful, they studied foreign languages and were excellent cooks. Putin’s wife spent more time with the kids than he did; she sewed dolls for them, and then staged home performances for dad.

In addition to his daughters from his legal wife, Putin was credited with fathering the mythical children of Alina Kabaeva. They said that in 2009 the gymnast gave birth to a son for Vladimir, named Dima in honor of Medvedev, but the blond baby in numerous photos is Arseny, Kabaeva’s nephew.

However, journalists did not calm down on this canard; they began to say that outside our country in 2012, Alina became the mother of a daughter, and then a third child of unknown gender and age. All these persistent rumors were never confirmed, and the head of state was in no hurry to comment on anything, because he considered it beneath his own dignity.

Putin's new wife: who is she

Despite official denials, the alarmed public is not so easily reassured, so the question of who Putin's wife is today still rages. During the same direct line with the president in 2020, the head of state again excited the imagination of the tabloids with his simple phrase about his personal life: “I’m also happy, everything is fine with me.”

After these questions, the Russian leader openly doubted that issues of the personal lives of politicians should be brought to the fore. “To be honest, I don’t know how this would affect the exchange rate difference or oil prices,” Vladimir Putin joked when asked who his new wife is. However, a little later he admitted that he had “long ago come to terms” with the fact that the public is interested in his personal life. “Perhaps someday I will be able to satisfy your curiosity,” said the guarantor of the Constitution.

This became a topic for new gossip. The media immediately recalled their old “canard” that Putin’s new wife is Alina Kabaeva. And again active discussion of this topic began. Journalists, digging up archives, shouted with joy about the discovery of new evidence that Putin had married a second time. To confirm their words, they wrote that when the owner of the four-time title of European champion Alina Kabaeva ran with the Olympic torch before the start of the Sochi Olympics in 2014, a ring similar to a wedding was noticed on her ring finger. As “irrefutable evidence” that Vladimir Putin married a second time and his new wife is an Olympic champion, old photos of the head of state were published, in which he still wore a ring indicating his marriage to Lyudmila Putina.

Public interest was also fueled by the fact that Kabaeva, who at that time served as a deputy of the State Duma, initially actively discussed her plans to participate in the Olympic Games in Beijing, but for unknown reasons abandoned these plans. And a little later she announced her retirement from her sports career. In fact, the reason for this action was the fact that it became too difficult for Alina to combine a political and sports career and the girl realized that she could bring more benefit to the state if she remained in a government post.

Maria Putina

About education

The eldest daughter of the Russian leader was born in Leningrad. She was a student at the private gymnasium "Peterschule". Then she attended the German Haas School. The educational institution is located in the capital, at the German Embassy. Teachers and students spoke only German.

The young man, who studied in the same class with Maria Putina, spoke with Sobesednik journalists. According to him, the students of the German school did not need to be proud of their educational success. They had another goal - to show off the authority of their parents. Students who considered themselves “elite” tried to stay apart. Maria had little contact with her classmates. Soon she left the school. The reason given was “for security reasons.” But there was another version - supposedly the girl had problems with her academic performance.

When Maria graduated from school, she became a student at the State University of the Northern Capital. The girl chose the Faculty of Biology and Soil Science. She was also a student at Moscow State University, Faculty of Fundamental Medicine. Journalists from Sobesednik asked Masha’s classmates. According to them, they did not see Maria Putina at the university, although she studied in the same course with them. The teachers said that they taught the girl on Sundays. Most often, they came to Maria’s house. When there were practical classes, Maria herself came to the university.

About personal life

As the media wrote, Maria Putina started a family with a Dutch entrepreneur whose name is Jorrita Joosta Faassen. De Telegraaf reported that the father is a businessman and a local artist. Jorrita was a student at the University of The Hague, where he studied architectural history. After training, the entrepreneur came to Russia, where he was able to achieve career heights.

In November 2007, a Dutch entrepreneur came to Gazprombank-invest. He became one of the senior specialists in the residential real estate department. In the fall of 2008, Jorrita Joosta received the position of vice president. This organization built gas and oil pipelines, and at that time was managed by Gazprombank. Soon, Faassen was elected to the board, and he headed the strategic planning department at Gazprombank.

One of the employees who worked at Stroytransgaz told Vedomosti journalists in 2011 that Faassen’s colleagues considered him close to the family of the Russian president. Disputes often arose on this topic within the corporation. All employees were interested in talking about their Dutch colleague.

In 2010, Faassen's career changed. He received a leadership position on the board of directors. Faassen worked in this position until mid-2020. This information was provided on the organization's website.

In the fall of 2010, the name of the Dutch businessman appeared on the pages of publications. Security officers from Matvey Urin, the head of the bank, attacked Faassen and beat him. The incident occurred in the capital, on Rublevskoye Highway. Law enforcement officers arrested Urin. He was arrested, accused of fraud, and imprisoned for 7.5 years. The banker's personal driver and his 6 security officers were given 2.5 to 4.5 years in prison. They were accused of beatings, committing hooliganism, and damaging other people's property, so they were deprived of their freedom. The Slon publication reported that the Dutch businessman, at the time of the attack, was one of the directors of the Gazprombank-Invest Limited Liability Company. A year later (in 2011), Jorrita Joosta began working at Gazprom International. The company was engaged in the development of deposits in African countries.

In 2014, information appeared in the press that Maria and her husband live in the southern part of the Netherlands, in the village of Vorschoten.

About career

Reuters reported that Maria Faassen is now interested in everything that happens in the field of biomedicine. The girl studied the endocrine system. On the Internet site of the “Truth” system, designed to take into account and analyze the activities of Moscow State University employees, Maria is listed as one of the authors of 5 scientific works. These are the achievements of the president’s daughter for 2017-2019. Maria co-authored a publication that examined idiopathic short stature in children. In 2020, the book was published thanks to Lambert Academic Publishing.

The president's daughter is on the staff of the Endocrinological Research Center of the Russian Ministry of Health. The center is engaged in charity work, in particular, the Alpha-Endo program. Her goal is to help children who have diseases of the endocrine system.

Development of rumors: Putin’s new wife gave birth to children

Ignoring all official denials, the media continued to claim that Alina Kabaeva became the new wife of Vladimir Putin, the head of state married her for the second time after his divorce from Lyudmila. A little later, new rumors spread across the RuNet. They were connected with the fact that Putin’s supposedly new wife Alina Kabaeva, who had previously led an active social life, stopped appearing in public. Even more attention was attracted by the fact that during the opening of one of the youth sports centers, the creation of which was financed from the Alina Kabaeva Foundation, the athlete appeared in public very plump. Unfortunately for gossip lovers, there is no secret here. Since childhood, the girl was prone to being overweight. When the future Olympic champion, who had been involved in rhythmic gymnastics since she was 3.5 years old, came to Moscow with her mother at the age of 11, Irina Viner noted that the girl was too plump to practice and put the student on a strict diet. Most likely, after finishing her sports career, Alina Kabaeva gained excess weight. But after that, the girl, who continues to be called Putin’s new wife, pulled herself together and lost excess weight.

But, according to the media, Alina’s obesity was due to the fact that Putin’s new wife is allegedly pregnant with his child and is expecting a child. In 2020, one of the Swiss tabloids, which are actually the same all over the world because of their love for publishing unverified but “hot” information, reported that the athlete gave birth to a boy in one of the private clinics in Switzerland. However, according to other media reports, Alina gave birth to a girl. And someone actually says that there were two children and “Putin’s new wife” gave birth to the head of state two babies at once. Moreover, the timing and gender of the alleged children differ so much that there is simply no doubt about the falsity of the information provided.

It is not surprising that Alina Kabaeva does not comment on this period of her life. What woman would be pleased to admit to the whole country that she lost her physical shape for some time due to a tendency to be overweight? Even if we offer a seat on the subway to a plump girl who looks like she’s pregnant, and she turns out to be just chubby, we will put both ourselves and the girl herself in an awkward position. What can we say about Alina, who for several years was recognized as one of the sexiest women in Russia.

Congratulations on the birth of children were no less offensive for the athlete. The girl asked her fans not to congratulate her on receiving the honorary status of mother, since she had not yet become a mother. The same photographs that are circulating on the Internet, in which Putin’s new wife Alina is supposedly captured with a child in her arms, are real photographs. But in them Kabaeva is holding and hugging not her children at all, but her nephew and her friend’s daughter.

“Probably, these media could not invent anything else for people to read. To be honest, this is unpleasant for me, like any woman. Although, I understand that these are all the costs of my current public status,” admitted Alina Kabaeva.

Who did Putin marry for the second time?

To be fair, it is worth noting that Alina Kabaeva was called Putin’s new wife most often. But we should also talk about other girls who were registered as the spouses of the head of state, and whom, according to the tabloids, Vladimir Putin married for the second time after his divorce from Lyudmila.

So, who else “claimed” the “title” of Putin’s new wife:

Famous Russian actress, and later State Duma deputy Maria Kozhevnikova. According to media reports, “Allochka” from the TV series “Univer” gave up her acting career and went into politics precisely because she began an affair with Vladimir Putin.
The opera singer who, according to media reports, has become Putin's new wife, Anna Netrebko. The reason for such rumors was the elementary recognition of the head of state that Netrebko is one of the sought-after and brightest stars of the opera stage. But the Russian President also speaks the same flattering words to other talented people who contribute to the development of national culture. However, for the media, sometimes even standard polite phrases are enough to write a “duck” that people will be happy to read.
Another contender for the “title” of Putin’s new wife is ballerina Svetlana Zakharova. Once again, the reason for gossip was praise from the head of state. “Russian Diamond of the World Ballet” addressed to the prima of the Bolshoi Theater.
The fifth candidate, whom some tabloids claim Putin married for the second time, is the personal photographer of the head of state, Yana Lapikova. Rumors about this first spread around 2020. A beauty and model, as well as a talented photographer, Lapikova has always been close to Putin. This is understandable: the girl works as Vladimir Vladimirovich’s personal photographer. But journalists’ imagination cannot be stopped, and so Yana “changes” her profession as a photographer to the title of Putin’s wife. There is no point in even talking about the veracity of such versions.
And the last on the list of “Putin’s new wife” was intelligence officer Anna Chapman. The reason why the media started talking about the wedding of Anna and Vladimir was the simple fact that Chapman is an intelligence officer, and Putin served in the KGB. This coincidence was enough to sign the girl up as Vladimir Putin’s new wife.

Whether Putin married a second time or not, who became his new wife - this whole topic haunts journalists. But one day only the head of state himself will tell the truth. It may well turn out that State Duma deputy and Honored Artist of Russia Joseph Kobzon was right when he stated that Vladimir Putin’s only love and faithful companion is Russia.

Putin's daughters Maria and Katerina: biographies, husbands and other details

On November 10, Reuters published an article “Putin’s Daughters and the Second Generation Elite in Russia,” telling about the children of the Russian President and his inner circle.

The portal YUGA.ru has collected in one material what is currently known about the “secret” daughters of Vladimir Putin.

President's Daughters

The Putin family has two daughters: Maria (1985) and Katerina (1986). The eldest daughter is named after her paternal grandmother, the youngest - after her maternal grandmother.

“I have never, before or after, seen such well-mannered children as Katya and Masha. They behaved in such a way that I thought they were shy... Nothing of the sort! They knew their worth and kept their distance. They really treated each other with respect, did not interrupt, allowed each other to speak, and always tried to put themselves in the other person’s place,” Irena Pietsch, a German friend of Lyudmila Putina, recalled in an interview with Sobesednik.

It is known that Maria and Katerina attended a private gymnasium in St. Petersburg and a school at the German Embassy in Moscow, and since 2005 they have received an individual education program at St. Petersburg State University.

In an interview with TASS in November 2014, the Russian President stated that his daughters live in Moscow. “We’ll meet at home. I see my daughters once or twice a month, and then I still need time to figure it out,” he said

MARIA PUTINA

Education

Born on April 28, 1985 in Leningrad. She studied in St. Petersburg at the private Peterschule gymnasium with in-depth study of the German language and at the German School named after. Haas" at the German Embassy in Moscow, where only German was used during lessons and when children communicated with each other.

“They were mainly proud not of academic success, but of the authority of their parents. The entire “elite” was already keeping aloof from everyone, and Masha was generally uncommunicative. Then she left school to homeschool. Ostensibly for security reasons. But, as I heard, she had other problems - with her studies,” a former classmate of Maria Putina told Interlocutor.

After school, Vladimir Putin’s eldest daughter studied at the Faculty of Biology and Soil Science at St. Petersburg State University and at the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine at Moscow State University. “No one has seen Masha Putin here, even though we are in the same class. Never saw her. Our teachers said that they sometimes taught her on Sundays. Mostly at home, but sometimes due to practices, classes were on weekends and at the university,” Sobesednik quoted the stories of her classmates at St. Petersburg State University.

Marriage

According to media reports, Maria Putina married Dutch businessman Jorrit Joost Faassen. According to De Telegraaf, Fassin was born into the family of a local artist, studied architecture at the University of The Hague, and then built a successful career in Russia.

In November 2007, Faassen got a job at Gazprombank-invest as a chief specialist in the country real estate department of the residential real estate department. In mid-October 2008, he took the chair of vice president (construction of oil and gas pipelines), which at that time was controlled by Gazprombank. After some time, he became a member of the board and head of the strategic planning department of Gazprombank. “There was a widespread belief among Stroytransgaz employees that he was a good friend of the Putin family; this was a favorite topic of internal corporate discussions,” a former company employee commented to Vedomosti in 2011.

At the end of 2010, Jorrit Joost Faassen was appointed deputy chairman of the board of directors of the auditing and consulting group MEF-audit and appeared in this capacity on the company’s website until August 2020.

In November 2010, Fassin was beaten on Rublevskoye Highway in Moscow by security guards of banker Matvey Urin. After this, Urin was arrested and sentenced to 7.5 years in prison on charges of fraud, and the Central Bank revoked the licenses of several credit organizations owned by him. The driver M. Urina and six security guards of the businessman received from 2.5 to 4.5 years in prison on charges of hooliganism, battery and damage to someone else's property.

According to Slon, at the time of the incident, Faassen was again working at Gazprombank-Invest LLC as a development director, and in 2011 he worked at Gazprom International LLC, which is developing fields in Nigeria, Algeria and Libya.

In 2014, information appeared that Maria Putina and her husband live in the city of Vorschoten in the south of the Netherlands.

Job

According to Reuters, Maria Faassen is currently practicing biomedicine, specializing in the endocrine system, which controls hormones. On the website of the Truth system, which is designed to record and analyze the scientific activities of Moscow State University employees, she is listed as a co-author of five scientific papers published over the past two years. He is also co-author of a book on idiopathic short stature in children, published in 2020 by Lambert Academic Publishing.

M. Putina also works at the Endocrinological Research Center of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Moscow), which runs the Alpha-Endo charity program, which helps children with endocrine diseases.

KATERINA PUTIN

Education

Born on August 31, 1986 in the German Democratic Republic. She studied at the private gymnasium "Petershule" in St. Petersburg, and after her parents moved to Moscow - at the German School named after. Haas" at the German Embassy (since 2000 - home schooling). In 1998, the fee per child of the German School named after. Haasa was 7,200 German marks per year, for the second - 7,056 marks, the FreeLance Bureau website noted.

“Katya is a very smart girl. When I was visiting them, she told me that she was very interested in China. And already at that time she was studying Chinese,” recalled Vladimir Putin’s teacher Vera Dmitrievna Gurevich.

In 2005 (at the same time as her sister), Katerina Putina entered the Oriental Faculty of St. Petersburg State University, choosing the Department of History of the Far East and the specialty “History of Japan”.

“There was no noise around them. Katerina was generally remembered by everyone as a very quiet and modest girl. And they may have had security, but they weren’t conspicuous. So the applicants did not know with whom they were taking the exams at the same time. We knew that Katerina was studying Chinese on her own, and we had no doubts about her choice. They thought that she would go to the history of China. But at the last moment, Katya wanted to specialize in Japan,” Ivan Steblin-Kamensky, dean of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at St. Petersburg State University, shared with the newspaper Zhizn.

Soon after Katerina Putina’s admission, the governor of St. Petersburg, Valentina Matvienko, allocated a new building for the Eastern Faculty on the Congress line of Vasilievsky Island, Nezavisimaya Gazeta wrote in 2006.

“The Faculty of Oriental Studies is a special world where enthusiastic children study, but the fact that Putina studied with us was not particularly noticeable - we did not see her. Putina had an individual plan, and the teachers, they told us, went to see her themselves,” recalled Katerina’s classmates.

"Wedding with a Korean"

In October 2010, the Korea JoongAng Daily newspaper reported that Ekaterina Putina was marrying the son of a former employee of the South Korean embassy in Russia. This information was confirmed to the publication by the father of the groom, Korean Admiral Yeon Jong-Gu.

The newspaper also provided details of the affair: Ekaterina Putina and Yong Jr. allegedly met in 1997 at a party at an international school in Moscow. The relationship continued even after the admiral stopped working in Russia, and in 2002 Katya visited her lover in Korea during the World Cup. It was also reported that at the time of publication, the couple was studying in the United States and was preparing to announce their engagement “soon.”

However, publications about the upcoming wedding were denied by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov. After this, the alleged “groom” also stated that he was a simple acquaintance of Katerina Putina.

“I have known Katya for more than 10 years, but I have no plans to get married. I'm only 26 years old, so it's too early for me to think about marriage. Reports about the upcoming wedding are incorrect,” Yeon explained to the Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo.

Katerina Tikhonova - work

In January 2020, information appeared in the media that the daughter of the President of Russia, under the name Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova, runs the National Intellectual Development Foundation, which is participating in the development of the concept of the “scientific and technological valley” of Moscow State University.

According to journalist Oleg Kashin, he “heard last summer that the “new Skolkovo” being created on Vorobyovy Gory is headed by Putin’s daughter.” “And she heads seriously, and not nominally - they said that Putin was forced to entrust this project to her because he could not find another person in whom he was confident and with whom the project would not become another “Resorts of the North Caucasus,” wrote He.

In November 2020, Chairman of the Board and Deputy Head of the Board of Directors of Gazprombank Andrei Akimov told Reuters that Katerina Tikhonova is the daughter of Vladimir Putin. A. Akimov is on the board of trustees of the Innopraktika Foundation at Moscow State University, which is headed by K. Tikhonova. “I knew that this was Putin’s daughter. But, naturally, we decided to support Moscow State University projects without regard to family ties. The Innopraktiki program was consistent with the bank’s priorities, including Gazprombank’s desire to support scientific progress,” he explained.

After the publication of the article “Putin’s Daughters and the Elite of the Second Generation in Russia,” Andrei Akimov, through the press service of Gazprombank, denied his involvement in the Reuters material. At the same time, two high-ranking academic sources confirmed to the news agency that Katerina Tikhonova is the daughter of the Russian President.

According to the MSU website, Katerina Tikhonova works at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the university. She is listed as the co-author of a mathematics textbook and at least six scientific papers, one of which is devoted to the study of the effect of zero gravity on the human body. Most of the articles were co-written by the rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichy.

K. Tikhonova is the director of the non-profit Foundation National Intellectual Development (FNIR) and the director of the Center for National Intellectual Reserve (CNIR). Both institutions are associated with Moscow State University; on the basis of the university, they are implementing a project to support young scientists “Innopraktika”, which is also headed by Tikhonova.

Members of the FNIR board of trustees are representatives of Rosneft, Transneft, Rosatom, RDIF, Rostec, SIBUR and Gazprombank. On the CNIR website, Rosneft, Rostec, Russian Direct Investment Fund, Gazprombank and SIBUR are also named among Innopraktika’s partners.

“Among Katerina’s advisers at Moscow State University are five members of Putin’s inner circle, including two ex-KGB officers who remember her as a child,” Reuters emphasizes. In particular, the board of trustees of Innopraktika includes the general director of Rostec Sergei Chemezov and the head of Transneft Nikolai Tokarev, who were associated with Vladimir Putin through work in the KGB in the GDR and lived next to him in Dresden.

The National Intellectual Development Foundation and the Center for National Intellectual Reserve are participating in the development of the concept of a “scientific and technological valley”, which should appear in Moscow by the end of 2020 as a result of the expansion of Moscow State University on an area of more than 240 hectares in a prestigious area between Vernadsky Avenue and Michurinsky Avenue. In addition to educational buildings and dormitories, at least 550 thousand square meters can be built here. m of housing, and the total cost of the development project is estimated at $1.7 billion, RBC notes.

According to the rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichy, the total cost of the project is 110 billion rubles. In the presentation of the “scientific and technological valley,” the estimated costs were estimated at 149.9 billion rubles (in 2014 prices), of which the total costs of the municipal budget are 3.9 billion rubles (2.6%), the rest is “investor funds.”

In addition, Katerina Tikhonova is involved in acrobatic rock and roll and is the chairman of the board of trustees of the All-Russian Federation of Acrobatic Rock and Roll. The sponsors of FARR are Novatek, Gazprombank and SIBUR. In the spring of 2014, she became vice president of marketing and development for the World Rock and Roll Confederation (WRRC).

Katerina Tikhonova - marriage

According to Reuters, in 2020, 29-year-old Katerina Tikhonova described herself as the “wife” of Kirill Shamalov, the son of Nikolai Shamalov, a longtime friend of Vladimir Putin and a shareholder of Bank Rossiya (listed in the EU sanctions list as the “personal bank of the Russian elite”).

According to RBC, in January 2020, Katerina Tikhonova attended the “Russian session” of the Davos Forum in Switzerland in the company of Kirill Shamalov. During her visit to Switzerland, Tikhonova also introduced herself as Shamalov’s wife, Reuters notes.

In January 2020, Bloomberg, citing its sources, also mentioned that Putin’s daughter Katerina Tikhonova is married to Kirill Shamalov.

It is known that Kirill Shamalov worked for Gazprom, Rosoboronexport, Gazprombank and the government apparatus. In 2008, at the age of 26, he was appointed vice president for administrative business support at the gas processing and petrochemical company SIBUR, and in 2012-2015 he served as deputy chairman of the board. He is also listed as the owner of 21.3% of SIBUR shares (17% were received in September 2014 from Gennady Timchenko, who is a friend of Vladimir Putin). SIBUR appears as one of the main sponsors of the All-Russian Federation of Acrobatic Rock and Roll, the chairman of the board of trustees of which is K. Tikhonova. In the spring of 2015, it became known that K. Shamalov was leaving the post of deputy chairman of SIBUR, retaining his place on the board of directors. Together with the former director of legal support of SIBUR Denis Nikienko and Sergey Kotlyarenko, he created, which deals with investments in IT. According to Kommersant, K. Shamalov also plans to independently develop engineering services and polymer processing. In October 2014, Kirill Shamalov bought KDS-invest, which is part of the AT Consulting group. The group is engaged in the implementation and maintenance of information systems, management and operational business consulting and provides other IT services. Among its clients are the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Penitentiary Service, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Economic Development, the Treasury, the Ministry of Energy, Rosreestr and state-controlled VTB and Sberbank.

Kirill’s father, Nikolai Shamalov, has been a co-owner of Rossiya Bank since 2004, together with Yuri Kovalchuk and Dmitry Gorelov. In 2011, he ranked 198th in the Russian Forbes ranking. Yuri Kovalchuk and Nikolai Shamalov were also listed as co-founders of the Ozero dacha cooperative, whose shareholders were also Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Yakunin (former head of Russian Railways).

According to the European Union, announced when making the decision to impose personal sanctions, Kovalchuk and Shamalov “benefit from their connections with Russian decision-making officials.” And Bank Rossiya, which they own, is “considered the personal bank of high-ranking officials” and has a stake in the National Media Group, which controls a number of large Russian media outlets.

According to the former vice-president of the Petromed holding, Sergei Kolesnikov, N. Shamalov was personally involved in the project to build the “Putin Palace” near Gelendzhik. After widespread publicity in the media, Lazurnaya Yagoda LLC and Idokopas LLC, which owned the unfinished complex on Cape Idokopas, were purchased by the structures of the former co-owner of the Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port, Alexander Ponomarenko, from Shamalov and his two partners.

Katerina Tikhonova - net worth

According to financial analysts, as spouses, Katerina Tikhonova and Kirill Shamalov may have assets worth about $2 billion, writes Reuters. The basis of this capital is the shares of the largest petrochemical holding in Russia, SIBUR.

Among the property of the Shamalov Jr. family, Reuters mentions a villa in Biarritz (France) on the shores of the Bay of Biscay worth about $3.7 million, also purchased from Timchenko. According to the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the 4-story house in Biarritz overlooking the ocean was owned by SCI Atlantic, owned by Gennady Timchenko and his wife Elena. In November 2012, the Monegasque company Alta mira became the owner of SCI Atlantic, as well as the estate with the plot, and Kirill Shamalov became the director.

see also

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Putin's daughter, “National Intellectual Development” and rock and roll (investigation)

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