The United States of America has imposed sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s daughters, Katerina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova, whom the President of Russia never mentioned publicly.
Western sanctions against Russia for the invasion of Ukraine have already reached the family of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He himself did not appear to his children in public. But it is believed that his daughters were Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova and Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova.
What is known about them and what do US sanctions against them mean?
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“Tikhonova is a technical leader whose work supports the Russian government and the defense industry. Vorontsova runs state-funded programs that have received billions of dollars in genetic research from the Kremlin and under of Putin’s personal control.Tikhonova and Vorontsova are listed pursuant to Order No. 14024 for being the adult children of Putin, a person whose property and property interests are blocked pursuant to Order No. .14024, “said the decision to impose sanctions against them.
Maria Vorontsova was born in 1985 in Leningrad, and Katerina Tikhonova in 1986 in Dresden. The media called them Putin’s daughters, but the President of the Russian Federation himself did not officially recognize his daughters, who were protecting his personal life.
Endocrinologist Maria Vorontsova is a member of the council for the implementation of the Federal Scientific and Technical Program for the Development of Genetic Technologies, a leading researcher at the National Research Center for Endocrinology of the Ministry of Health and the deputy chairman of the Russian Society of young endocrinologist. The media called her Putin’s eldest daughter.
Katerina Tikhonova holds the post of Deputy Director of the Institute for Mathematical Research of Complex Systems of Moscow State University and manages the National Intellectual Development Foundation, combining this post with the head of the Center for National Intellectual Reserve (TsNIR, a division of Moscow State University).
Both structures operate under the Innopraktika brand. Innopraktika is engaged in developments in the field of high technologies and is one of the developers of the technology valley concept based at Moscow State University.
Life of daughters
Maria and Ekaterina were born in Vladimir Putin’s marriage to Lyudmila Shkrebneva, this marriage broke up in 2013.
Maria received a name in honor of Vladimir Putin’s mother – Maria Ivanovna Shelomova. Subsequently, she took the name Vorontsova.
According to media reports, Maria is married to Dutchman Jorrit Joost Faassen, a businessman, former top manager of Gazprombank and the Russian consulting group MEF audit. The couple has a son, born in 2012 in Moscow.
In 2014, Maria’s family was reported to live in Vorschoten in the south of the Netherlands, but in 2015 Putin said none of his daughters lived abroad.
At the beginning of 2019, Vorontsova became co-owner of the St. Louis company. Petersburg New Medical Company (Nomeko) and began to create a multifunctional medical complex. The project is estimated at nearly $ 634 million.
Ekaterina abandoned Putin’s surname, instead taking the patronymic of her maternal grandmother, Ekaterina Tikhonovna Shkrebneva, and became Ekaterina Tikhonova.
From February 2013 to January 2018, Katerina married Kirill Shamalov, daughter of Nikolai Shamalov, co-owner of Rossiya Bank and a friend of Putin in the Ozero cooperative.
Putin may have other children – some media consider Louise Rozova (Elizaveta Krivonogikh) the illegitimate daughter of the President of the Russian Federation, and Putin may also have heirs from Alina Kabaeva, where the relationships are not advertised.
According to media reports, Kabaeva has four children, she lives with them in Switzerland. After Russia invaded Ukraine, activists demanded his deportation from Switzerland.
Putin has at least two grandchildren. Putin also hid his grandchildren for security reasons.
The Kremlin’s reaction
Interestingly, commenting on the sanctions against Maria and Catherine, the Kremlin for the first time officially admitted that they were indeed Putin’s daughters.
“Of course, we believe that, first, these penalties themselves are a continuation of an absolutely frantic line towards the introduction of various restrictions. But in any case, the continuing line in applying some kind of restrictions on family members, well, that speaks for itself.It is unlikely that such measures, as approaches require any evaluation.It is something that is complex and explainable.It is something that is complex and explainable.But , unfortunately, we have to face such opponents, “said Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Source: korrespondent
