DETAILS ABOUT VLADIMIR PUTIN’S COMPLEX PERSONAL LIFE have emerged, including a secret family that is currently hiding as the tyrant continues his invasion of Ukraine.
Russian media had followed President Putin’s directive that “I have a private life that I do not allow interference in.” It must be upheld.”
However, tidbits of information about his family life have leaked in recent years, and this has grown since he ordered troops into neighbouring Ukraine.
THE EX-WIFE
The Russian President and former KGB officer, 69, was married to Lyudmila Shkrebneva for more than 30 years before divorcing her in 2014.
In July 1983, he married the former Aeroflot flight attendant in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg.
From his marriage to Lyudmila, they had two daughters, Maria and Katerina, who are his only confirmed children.
Lyudmila is a linguist who taught languages at Leningrad State University from 1990 to 1994, before her husband’s political career took off in St Petersburg local government.
Lyudmila served as Russia’s First Lady after Putin was elected president in 2000, but she preferred to remain out of the spotlight.
The couple announced their separation in June 2013, and their divorce was finalised in April of the following year.
Lyudmila is said to have married a man named Artur Ocheretny in 2015.
Katerina’s favourite French vacation spot in Biarritz was vandalised in the aftermath of Putin’s Ukraine invasion.
Kirill Shamalov, Tikhonova’s ex-husband, owns the luxury villa.
Pictures posted on Reddit showed the property’s gates emblazoned with the colours of the Ukrainian flag.
THE ‘LOVER’
Putin is rumoured to be dating Alina Kabaeva, a beautiful gymnastics champion.
Despite being one of Russia’s most eligible women, the Olympic gold medalist and TV favourite has had no other suitors since 2008.
A decade ago, she was romantically linked to Putin for the first time.
The Kremlin has denied she is his secret First Lady, but rumours have circulated that she has given birth to at least one child.
According to one popular Russian newspaper, she is the “First Lady, but in the Shadows.”
During an event in Italy in September 2017, she was photographed wearing what appeared to be a wedding ring.
THE ‘SECRET’ KIDS IN SWITZERLAND
The couple is thought to have had four secret children together, though neither their relationship nor their children have ever been officially confirmed.
A source told Page Six that Kabaeva, 38, is “holed up in a very private and very secure chalet in Switzerland.”
“Alina has two young boys and twin girls born in Switzerland with Putin,” the source added.
“All of the kids have Swiss passports, and I’m sure she does as well.”
Kabaeva has been linked to Putin for over 13 years and disappeared from her home country in 2018 amid rumours that she had given birth to Putin’s twins.
She is said to have given birth to twin boys in a Moscow clinic in April 2020.
In 2004, the former MP for President Putin’s United Russia party posed semi-naked for a men’s magazine and was dubbed “Russia’s most flexible woman.”
Mikhail Korolov, the photographer who shot the Maxim shoot, previously stated: “I didn’t even have to try to persuade her. She acted quite naturally. She’s got a lot of sex.”
Putin is said to have met Kabaeva around this time, when he was married and she was dating a police officer.
The couple’s romance was first mentioned in 2008, when a newspaper owned by Putin’s ex-KGB spy colleague Alexander Lebedev alleged a relationship.Putin responded to the allegations by slamming “those who prowl into others’ lives with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies.”
Kabaeva is now facing calls to expel her from Switzerland and deport her to Russia, with over 63,000 people signing a petition.
The petition makes no apologies for referring to her as “the favourite wife of the delusional dictator and war criminal Putin.”
“It’s time you reunite Eva Braun with her Führer,” it continued.
“Despite the current conflict, Switzerland continues to host a Putin regime accomplice.”
Kabaeva is currently the chair of the board of directors at National Media Group and is said to earn £8 million per year.
In November 2020, Elizaveta Krivonogikh, one of Putin’s alleged love children, was unmasked.
Proekt, an investigative media outlet, backed up by a visual computing expert at a British university, named Elizaveta as Putin’s secret daughter.
Her mother, Svetlana Krivonogikh, 45, is accused of having an affair with the strongman leader while he was head of the FSB counterintelligence service, prime minister, and president of Russia for the first time.
Her daughter was conceived during the final stage of their alleged relationship.
According to reports, Svetlana has a fortune of $102 million, is a shareholder in a major Russian bank, and owns a nightclub in St Petersburg known for its “erotic” shows.
THE FORTUNE
There have been several estimates of Putin’s and his family’s wealth, with one speculating that he could be worth up to £160 billion.
Such a sum would make him the world’s richest person, surpassing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
He is said to have a slush fund for mistresses and love children, as well as a portfolio of expensive palaces and a fleet of luxury jets, cars, and yachts.
The Kremlin, on the other hand, insists that Vlad lives a much more modest existence and that reports about his personal life are mere gossip.
