The war in Ukraine has “destroyed the hopes of Vladimir Putin’s eldest daughter to open a lucrative elite medical center” for super-wealthy foreigners in Russia as her marriage to a Western husband reportedly ended.
Glamorous doctor Maria Vorontsova, 36, born when the Russian president was a KGB spy, is an expert on rare genetic diseases in children.
Exiled Russian investigative journalist Sergei Kanev said Putin “did a rotten job for his eldest daughter” and is calling for massive Western sanctions over the war with Ukraine.
He said: “She has a large share in the mega-project for the construction of an ultra-modern medical center near St. Petersburg.
It is reported that 36-year-old Maria Vorontsova is the daughter of Vladimir Putin and his ex-wife Lyudmila.
It is said that Vorontsova is a specialist in rare genetic diseases in children and wanted to open a medical clinic in St. Petersburg for wealthy owners.
It is reported that in the photo Jorit Faassen is the husband of the eldest daughter of Vladimir Putin.
“The plans were to attract patients from Europe and rich sheikhs from the Gulf countries.
– And now, after the attack on Ukraine, what kind of Europeans and sheikhs will come?
The exiled editor of The Insider, an investigative agency banned for investigating alleged Kremlin corruption, Roman Dobrokhotov, on Kanev’s social media that Vorontsova has now split from her Dutch businessman husband Jorrit Faassen.
He did not give details of when they parted, but it is believed that this happened before the start of the war.
The couple have children, which makes Putin a grandfather.
But he never acknowledged the identity or work of his adult offspring, let alone the details of their personal lives.
Faassen, who, as you know, worked in Russia for a long time in the companies Gazprombank-Invest and Stroytransgaz.
It is believed that his father was a colonel in the Dutch armed forces.
Putin’s Dutch son-in-law once said: “I am married to a Russian woman, I have children, I will stop there.”
Maria uses the surnames Vorontsova – her grandmother’s surname – and Faassen.
Maria is a leading researcher at the National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology of the Russian Ministry of Health.
Last year, she was interviewed by Russia 24 about Russian efforts to fight rare genetic diseases in children, but it was not reported that she was Putin’s daughter.
She explained that “nothing is a panacea”, but that “genetic testing can help, for example, at the stage before conception” to “determine whether parents are carriers of an unwanted gene.”
The exiled editor of The Insider, an investigative agency banned for investigating alleged corruption in the Kremlin, Roman Dobrokhotov, on Kanev’s social media that Vorontsova has now split from her Dutch businessman husband Jorrit Faassen.
She said: “Genetic testing can help at the stage of IVF preimplantation diagnosis, can help parents choose a healthy embryo.
“This is relevant for parents who already have a child with a rare disease that is inherited.
“For me, this is a very positive project, very correct.”
According to reports, she is also an expert on dwarfism.
Her divorced sister, Katerina Tikonova, 35, deputy director of Moscow State University’s Institute for Mathematical Research of Complex Systems, is also from Putin’s former marriage to former Kremlin first lady Lyudmila.
Their half-sister is Louise Rozova, an 18-year-old heiress, also known as Elizaveta Krivonogikh, from a previous relationship with cleaner-turned-multimillionaire Svetlana Krivonogikh, 45, now co-owner of a major Russian bank.
A BBC reporter in Russia once told Putin that it was “an open secret” that Maria and Katerina were his children, but refused to confirm that they were his daughters.
Vorontsova, circled, is also reportedly an expert on dwarfism.
Speculation that he has a family with rhythmic gymnast-turned-media mogul Alina Kabayeva, 38, has been met with official denials, but rumors persist.
Earlier, Putin said: “I have a personal life in which I do not allow interference. He needs to be respected.”
He deplored “those who, with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies, climb into someone else’s life.”
Kabaeva officially stated that she had met a man whom she “loves very much” and said: “Sometimes you feel so happy that you even get scared.”