Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics Alina Kabaeva mainly used business jets for flights abroad.
The Agency found this out after studying the data from the FSB border service leaked online.
In this database, journalists found data on 41 flights of Kabaeva from 2014 to 2023. 32 (about 80%) of them, as reported, were carried out on business jets, and another nine on regular scheduled aircraft.
In September 2014, Kabaeva flew to Lugano, Switzerland, for 12 days. The Wall Street Journal claimed that in March 2015, she gave birth to Vladimir Putin’s first son in Switzerland. However, the leaked data on the flight to Switzerland at that time is not included, the publication writes, noting that this database may be incomplete.
She made her next flight in 2016: during the New Year holidays, she flew from Sochi to Turin, Italy, then returned three days later from Lyon, France. That same year, Kabaeva visited Milan three times and Tashkent once. In 2017 and 2018, Kabaeva flew twice to the Maldives, as well as to Almaty, Tashkent, Munich, Geneva, and three times to Milan. In December 2020, she visited Lugano twice, and in 2021, Milan.
After the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, journalists found out that Kabaeva flew to Minsk and Tashkent, where she visited the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup and her rhythmic gymnastics academy, “Heavenly Grace.”
The “Agency” assumes that from at least 2014 to 2021, the “presidential companion” lived in Sochi, since it was from there that she most often flew abroad and returned there. The “Proekt” claims that Putin gave Kabaeva a luxurious two-story penthouse in the Sochi residential complex “Royal Park”. In 2023, it is alleged that Kabaeva flew only from Moscow.
The president’s youngest daughter, Ekaterina Tikhonova, according to the leaked border guard database, has flown abroad 61 times since 2014, 14 of which were on business jets. Putin’s eldest daughter, Maria Vorontsova, has made 34 flights, using a business jet only once – in 2016 for a flight to Amsterdam.
Source: Racurs
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