Now it’s official: if the European Union still hesitates and has (for the time being) sanctioned by the British government Putin’s two (official) daughters Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova, aged 36 and 35 respectively and born from the marriage to Lyudmila Shkrebneva of Boris Johnson Instead, it chose to join the United States in extending antiRussian sanctions to the Russian president’s two eldest daughters in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
What the new measures entail
The announcement was made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a department of the UK government, and specified that the new measures also affect Ikaterina Vinokurova, daughter of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The UK Foreign Office communiqué stigmatized the “luxurious lifestyle of the district near the Kremlin”. The sanctions consist of a freeze on all traceable assets and a ban on entering the UK. London last March 25 sanctioned Polina Kovaleva, owner of a luxurious home in Kensington and listed as Lavrov’s current partner’s first bed daughter.
“Shot at the magic circle of the Kremlin”
The British Foreign Office’s communiqué says today’s measures are another hit “to the opulent lifestyle of the Kremlin’s magic circle”. This is another chapter in the sanctions package agreed by London with the US, EU and other allies. “An unprecedented package,” commented the Minister for her part Liz Truss used to target Russian elites and their families as Russia’s economy declines to levels not seen since the collapse of the Soviet Union.” Truss, however, stressed that the Johnson administration “must do more,” particularly on energy imports from Moscow, as discussed yesterday at the G7: with the aim of stopping “Putin’s war machine” and preventing the Kremlin from raising the necessary resources to finance “the illegal and unjustified invasion of Ukraine”.
Who are Putin’s daughters?
Officially, Putin has two daughters, Maria and Katerina, from his marriage to Lyudmila Putina, a former Aeroflot stewardess whom he divorced in 2013, becoming the first Russian head of state since Peter the Great in 1698. The tsar, who very rarely spoke about it publicly, answered a few questions at the 2015 annual press conference and noted that her daughters had not fled the country as had been assumed. “You live in Russia. They were not trained anywhere except in Russia. you will be proud of them: They continue to study and work, reports The Guardian. “My daughters speak three European languages fluently. I don’t talk to anyone about my family,” Putin said at the time, almost annoyed by the questions to his closest relatives.
Katerina Tikhonova, 35, the youngest daughter, was born in Dresden in 1986 while Putin was working as a spy for the KGB. Tikhonova, who uses her maternal grandmother’s surname, graduated from St. Petersburg State University and Moscow State University and has master’s degrees in physics and mathematics. In addition to studying, Tikhonova has a passion for Japanese culture and acrobatic rock ‘n’ roll dance, a sporting form of “boogiewoogie”. In 2013 she took fifth place with her dance partner at the World Championships in Switzerland. Putin’s eldest daughter Maria Vorontsova, 36, is a pediatric endocrinologist who studies the effects of hormones on the body. As explained by the British newspaper The Guardian, Vorontsova, who lives in an attic opposite the US Embassy in Moscow (coincidences of life), gave an interview to Russian state television in 2019, in which she discussed plans for a medical company worth 500 Million pounds revealed targeting cancer treatment.
The “secret” daughter of the Tsar?
In Russia, rumor has it that Putin has an even more secretive third daughter, born of a yearslong relationship with Svetlana Krivonogikh, a Russian who sources say grew up in a crowded St. Petersburg apartment and worked as a cleaner. Insiders revealed that 46yearold Krivonogikh became the owner of an apartment in Monaco through an offshore company set up just weeks after the baby girl was born. Lucia. However, the Kremlin has firmly rejected the hypothesis that Luiza is the president’s daughter. “I have a personal life that I don’t want to get involved in. That has to be respected, Putin said on the issue.