Who are they and what do they do Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova, the two “official” daughters of President Putin, whose surname does not even appear, ended up on the US and EU blacklist of Russian figures sanctioned after the war against Ukraine should be .
The Russian President Vladimir Putin He has always been very careful about the privacy of his family, of which not much is actually known. However, his two “official” daughters, who do not even bear his last name Katerina Tikhonova, 35 years old and Maria Vorontsova, 36 years old by his exwife Lyudmila Shkrebneva, with whom he was married for thirty years until 2013, they entered the list of Russian personalities sanctioned from the United States for the Russian invasion ofUkraine, because “we have seen attempts and efforts by the Kremlin leader and other oligarchs to hide assets in their family members’ accounts”. Putin has never spoken about it publicly, except on very rare occasions. Like in 2020, when one of the two took part in the tests for the Covid vaccine Sputnik V: “He feels good, he has high antibodies”.
Here is a brief portrait of Maria and Katerina. The Kremlin, however, said through Spokesman Peskov that he was “stunned” by the US decision to impose sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s daughters, describing the move as “difficult to understand and explain,” reports Reuters.
Who is Maria Vorontsova, Putin’s eldest daughter
The eldest, Maria Vorontsova, (also called Marija Putina), was born in St. Petersburg in 1985. She studied biology at St. Petersburg University and medicine at Moscow State University. She stayed to work in academia, with a specialization in the study of the endocrine system. But it is also one Business women, as well as her Dutch husband, with whom she had a son. BBC Russia has identified her as a coowner of a company that intends to build a huge medical center.
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Who is Katerina Tikhonova?
However, his sister, Katerina Tikhonova, born in Germany, the seat then assigned to her father by the KGB, was much more in the news spotlight. It was in my teens acrobatic dancer. Then she, too, devoted herself to the academic world and took on an important role at Moscow University in the field ofartificial intelligence. She made brief appearances on Russian state media to speak on neurotechnology in 2018 and then at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in 2021. In 2013 she married the Russian billionaire Kirill Shamalov, but after 5 years their relationship came to an end.
Katerina Tikhonova in an acrobatic dance competition.
What Putin said about his daughters
At all the public events she attended, no one ever addressed her as Putin’s daughter. His name was linked to that of the Russian president a few weeks ago when a French activist broke into a €4 million seaside villa Biarritz, in France, used by the girl to protest the war in Ukraine. The tsar has never commented, except in 2015, when he responded to a question from reporters that “my daughters are not involved in business or politics,” and in late 2020, when he announced that either had attended the exams for the Russian Covid vaccine, Sputnik V: “He feels good, has high antibodies,” he said. As The Washington Post reports, according to Alexei Venediktov, editorinchief of Echo of Moscow radio station, Putin was apparently referring to Tikhonova, who has close ties to a top vaccine lobbyist, Dmitriev. Tikhonova and Dmitriev’s wife, Natalia Popova, work together and were also classmates at the university. Which may have somehow eased Putin’s support for the vaccine itself, the Stars and Stripes newspaper reports. More recently, the Russian president also spoke about his own grandchildrenwithout saying how many there are: “They are very cute, I like spending time with them.”