Alina Kabevava, a Russian-born gymnast, is often referred to as Vladimir Putin’s mistress. If their relationship is not officially proven, then his name pops up regularly, given the news related to the President of Russia.
While Vladimir Putin has been at the center of the news since he launched an offensive into Ukraine on February 24, another name pops up regularly: Alina Kabaeva. This woman will be the mistress of the President of Russia.
Her name quickly surfaced when Vladimir Putin and his ex-wife Lyudmila Chkrebneva divorced in 2013. At the age of 34, the young woman already enjoyed a certain amount of fame before she was associated with the name of the President of Russia.
Sports career
Born in 1983 in Tashkent. The current capital of Uzbekistan was then part of the Soviet Union. Soon, young Alina began her career as a professional gymnast. Her flexibility contributes to her sporting fame, which has earned her two Olympic medals, one bronze in 2000 at the Sydney Olympics and another gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Alina Kabaeva during the 2001 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships. EFE – Sergio_Barrenechea
Political career
In 2007, his sports career ended. This year also saw a rapprochement with Vladimir Putin. In 2008, she entered the Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
In the same year, the athlete’s fame took a new turn when a question was openly asked at a press conference by the Russian daily newspaper Moskovsky Korrespondent about rumors about their relationship that had been circulating for some time.
constant rumors
Other than the fact that Vladimir Putin was still married at the time, the question is very poorly received, as Le Parisien recalls in a 2019 article on an alleged romance between the Russian president and a former athlete. He also announces the newspaper’s closure a few hours after the press conference.
In 2015, she gave birth to a child. The media is quick to name the father: it will be Vladimir Putin. Faced with growing rumors in the foreign press, the Kremlin reacted: “The information about the birth of a child whose father is Vladimir Putin is false.”
In total, she will have three or four children. Most recently, the media reported that the former gymnast is in Switzerland while the war between Russia and Ukraine rages.