Who Are Putin’s Daughters Sanctioned By London, Brussels And Washington – HuffPost

Evgenia Novozhenina via REUTERSKaterina Tikhonova June 4, 2021 by REUTERS/Evgenia NovozheninaRUSSIA – Touching children in an attempt to reach the father. The United Kingdom sanctioned this Friday, April 8 the two daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin and that of the head of diplomacy Sergei Lavrov because of the invasion of Ukraine, saying that it wanted to attack the “lavish lifestyle of the inner circle of the Kremlin”. London thus takes over from Washington and Brussels to target Katerina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova. They are now prohibited from entering British territory, where any possible assets will be frozen. According to a senior US official, Washington is convinced that “Putin’s assets are hidden through members of his family”. With the Kremlin keeping Vladimir Putin’s family life firmly out of the public sphere, information is scarce on his two daughters. Out of sight from an early age Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova, aged in their thirties, are from Vladimir Putin’s marriage to Lyudmila Putina, a former Aeroflot flight attendant whose president Russian announced the divorce in 2013, becoming the first Russian leader to divorce since Peter the Great in 1698, notes The Guardian. The official biography of the Russian president on the Kremlin website claims that Maria Vorontsova was born in 1985 before the family moved to Dresden, East Germany, where Vladimir Putin was sent as a KGB agent. His second daughter, Katerina Tikhonova, who uses her maternal grandmother’s surname, was born the following year in this city. Through a few rare remarks over the years, Vladimir Putin reveals that his daughters received their higher education in Russia, speak several European languages ​​and live in Russia. “My children are fine. They are in Moscow (…). All is well in their private lives and professional careers. I’m proud of them,” he said in a rare public comment in 2012, adding that they were “not involved in any business activity” or “in politics.” An endocrinologist and a mathematician Today Maria Vorontosa is being sanctioned for her role in Nomenko, a major healthcare investment project company that provides “substantial sources of revenue” to the Russian government, and “personally supervised by Putin”, according to AFP who was able to consult a document on the new EU sanctions blacklist. An endocrinologist and pediatrician, she appeared in a Russian television interview in 2019, talking about childhood obesity and diabetes. She is married to Dutch businessman Jorrit Faassen. In 2014, after the crash of MH 17 attributed to pro-Russian separatists, in which 183 Dutch people had died, the couple had to leave the Netherlands where they lived, under pressure from local authorities and residents, notes Le Parisien. His sister, Katerina Tikhonova, is identified as a mathematician who runs a fund to support young Russian scientists, founded by companies whose leaders “are members of the circle of oligarchs close” to Putin. press in 2019, Vladimir Putin refused to answer a question directly about the growing influence of his daughters in business and their links with the state. Katerina Tikhonova’s acrobatic kicks Katerina Tikhonova is also a professional acrobatic rock and roll dancer, and has participated in prestigious international competitions. Videos from these tournaments show her dressed in sparkling costumes, in particular leaning on the hands of her partner before to be catapulted into the air for an acrobatic kick. In 2013, she and her dance partner finished fifth at the world championships in Switzerland. Jakub Dabrowski via REUTERSKaterina Tikhonova and dancer Ivan Klimov during the Acrobatic Rock and Roll World Cup in Poland April 12, 2014 by REUTERS/Jakub Dabrowski)According to The Guardian, Tikhonova is married to Kirill Shamalov, the youngest son of close confidant Nikolai Shamalov of Putin and co-owner of the Rossiya Bank, which the US government describes as “the personal bank” of senior Kremlin officials. Kirill Shamalov was appointed Gazprom’s chief legal adviser for foreign economic activity in 2002, when he was just 20 years old. The couple married in a secret three-day ceremony in the ski resort of Igora in 2013, before divorcing in 2018. Their villa in Biarritz had recently been targeted by activists opposing the war in Ukraine. In 2020, during an interview, the Russian president said that he did not want to share information about his family, due to “security problems”, specifying all the same that he had grandchildren, without giving their number. He then declared: “I have grandchildren, I am happy. They are very good, so nice. I enjoy spending time with them”. See also on The HuffPost: From Boutcha, Volodymyr Zelensky denounces “genocide”