At the age of 39, the pro-Kremlin director of the Russian League for Safe Internet has declared himself Vladimir Putin’s “guardian of morality.” A mission that probably brought her much closer to the President of the Russian Federation, with whom she would now be having an affair.
In Moscow, he is known as the chief censor of the Russian Internet. Behind the scenes, he would secretly share the life of Vladimir Putin. Her name is Ekaterina (or “Katya) Mizulina.” Anyway, this is what several British and American tabloids have been writing about for a few days, for example A mirror and: New York Post , cited by Ukrainian media and independent Russian Telegram channels. Is this really a surprise? Not according to Russian human rights defender Olga Romanova. “Putin likes Katya Mizulina very much. This kind of barbie has always suited her very well,” she says flatteringly on the air of the Ukrainian Channel 24 TV channel.
According to the Russian Telegram channel, Kremlin leader Kremlinskaya Tabakerka and Ekaterina Mizumina “have been closer recently.” However, sources who claim this are “extremely cautious in speaking as no one can offer 100% confirmation”. It must be said that Vladimir Putin’s personal life is a well-kept secret. Following his 2013 divorce from Lyudmila, his wife of thirty years, he has been in a relationship with 40-year-old former Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva. Once a member of the Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament), “even if he didn’t actually work there”, he now lives as a recluse in the presidential residence, with children (no one knows how many), allegedly. had with the President of Russia. Never confirmed, their story feeds all imaginations. A story somewhat darkened by the appearance of the character of Ekaterina Mizulina.
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Spokesperson for Russian schoolchildren
At the age of 39, Ekaterina Mizulina is not unknown to the general public. Born in 1984 in Yaroslavl, 300 kilometers from Moscow, she is the daughter of pro-Putin deputy Yelena Mizulina and Professor Mikhail Mizulina, philosopher and academic. But above all, he is the director of the Safer Internet League, the body that governs web censorship in Russia. In The world we learn that “the organization’s primary mission is to track and demand the blocking of ‘dangerous’ content on the Internet: online gambling, child crimes, ‘drug propaganda’ under the Russian Criminal Code.” .
This mission pushed Katya Mizulina to the forefront. On Telegram, his main communication tool, he has 375,000 loyal subscribers, “a good number of whom have an unlimited passion for him,” we still read. The world. And for good reasons. Ekaterina Mizulina actually became a kind of pop and cool icon, because she conveyed all the complaints and demands of Russian schoolchildren. And really everyone. the busy days, the weight of the school bags, the faulty heating in the classrooms, the desire to see the skatepark built… This role as a relay for the youth eventually paid off.
“Cyber Balance”
Meanwhile, through his Safer Internet League, he echoes militant patriotism and calls for censorship of rappers he publicly accuses of corrupting society. As reported by our partner world Moscow reporter Benoit Vitkin, this method of condemnation prompted the team of the late Alexei Navalny, formerly Russia’s number one enemy, to dedicate an investigation to him in January 2022 under the title “Cyber Balance.”
Regardless, if there is anyone who is happy with this system, it is the head of the Kremlin, whom Ekaterina Mizulina supported like a mother from the beginning. In the Duma, the latter stood out in the 2010s by campaigning for the prohibition of homosexuality and setting a tax on divorces or calling for the deprogramming of cartoons. South Park Or The Simpsons, was considered “cynical and extremist”. However, this did not prevent the MP from sending his daughter “Katya” to London to finish her education.
Ekaterina Mizulina, in fact, spent some time in the capital of England. In 2004, he graduated from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and embarked on a “philanthropic” career, holding various key positions in Russian charities. His rise will be notably marked by his appointment as head of the Russian Internet Security League in 2017, which he rules with an iron fist.
Source: Le Figaro
