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Post by Admin on Apr 7, 2022 17:18:18 GMT
Vladimir Putin's daughter Katerina Tikhonova speaks via video link during a panel session last year at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum — Russia's version of Davos. The U.S. has announced additional sanctions against Russia, following alleged atrocities committed by Russian troops in Ukraine. Among those on the latest list of sanctions are two adult daughters of President Vladimir Putin. "We believe that many of Putin's assets are hidden with family members and that's why we're targeting them," a senior Biden administration official said in a call with reporters on Wednesday. Putin has refused to publicly acknowledge the names of his children, but the Treasury Department identified the daughters being sanctioned as Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova and Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova. One is a pediatric endocrinologist, the other a former competitive dancer turned tech executive. Putin is intensely private when it comes to his family, and many details about his children have been scarce and shrouded in secrecy. Here's what we know about them. Putin rarely speaks publicly about his children Both are the daughters of Putin's ex-wife, Lyudmila Putina, an Aeroflot flight attendant whom Putin married in 1983. The two later divorced after three decades of marriage. One of the few times Putin has spoken about his children came during a news conference in 2015, according to the BBC. "My daughters live in Russia and studied only in Russia, I am proud of them," Putin said. "They speak three foreign languages fluently. I never discuss my family with anyone." Putin's eldest daughter is an endocrinologist Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova is known by several other last names: Faassen is her married surname, and she sometimes is also called Maria Putina. Her nickname is Masha. Born in 1985, Vorontsova now works as a pediatric endocrinologist and genetics researcher. She is listed as a doctor at the Endocrinology Research Center Moscow, though she's the only physician on the center's website without a photo. The site identifies Vorontsova as deputy chairman of the Russian Society of Young Endocrinologists and says she speaks English, German, French and Dutch. "Vorontsova leads state-funded programs that have received billions of dollars from the Kremlin toward genetics research and are personally overseen by Putin," according to the Treasury Department.
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Post by Admin on Apr 8, 2022 18:25:41 GMT
The United States' latest round of sanctions on Russia includes two new targets: Russian President Vladimir Putin's two adult daughters, Katerina and Maria, who U.S. officials believe are hiding Putin's wealth. Putin's daughter Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova is a tech executive whose work supports the Russian government and its defense industry, according to details in the U.S. sanctions package announced on Wednesday. His other daughter Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova leads government-funded programs that have received billions of dollars from the Kremlin toward genetics research, and are personally overseen by Putin, the United States said. "We have reason to believe that Putin, and many of his cronies, and the oligarchs, hide their wealth, hide their assets, with family members that place their assets and their wealth in the U.S. financial system, and also many other parts of the world," a senior U.S. administration official told reporters. "We believe that many of Putin's assets are hidden with family members, and that's why we're targeting them," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. On Thursday, the Kremlin said it was bewildered by the U.S. decision, and described the move against the daughters as part of a broader Western frenzy against Russia. Reuters was not able to reach Putin's daughters or their representatives.
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Post by Admin on Apr 8, 2022 19:36:41 GMT
The UK has imposed sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s two adult daughters, following in the footsteps of the US in another symbolic move to put pressure on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Katerina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova will be subject to an asset freeze and a travel ban, although it is not clear whether either of them has ever visited the UK or whether they own any assets within reach of UK officials. The US imposed sanctions on the women on Wednesday, with a senior US official saying that many of Putin’s assets were hidden with family members. There have been persistent but unconfirmed reports that Putin has fathered other daughters but Tikhonova and Vorontsova are his only publicly acknowledged children. Both were designated by the UK on Friday under an urgent procedure, under which the government can impose sanctions on the basis of allies’ evidence if they think it is in the public interest. The urgent procedure gives the UK 56 days to find its own evidence. The EU has also imposed sanctions on the sisters as part of a new package of measures targeting Russia’s economy, businessmen and oligarchs, according to two EU officials who spoke to Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Neither daughter had been added to the EU’s public sanctions list on Friday morning. A report on the EUobserver website earlier this week, citing a draft version of that EU list, claimed the soon-to-be-announced sanctions would also cover several wives, ex-wives, sisters, stepdaughters and mothers-in-law of pro-Kremlin oligarchs. Putin’s daughters with his former wife, Lyudmila, have kept a low public profile and have not made any official public appearances with him as adults. The UK’s sanctions designation said Vorontsova was born in April 1985 in Leningrad, now St Petersburg, and that Tikhonova was born a year later in Dresden, where Putin worked undercover as a spy for the KGB intelligence service until the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Post by Admin on Apr 9, 2022 0:59:01 GMT
Closer look at Putin’s daughters as Kremlin insiders, influencers hit with sanctions l GMA 63,365 views Apr 7, 2022 The new sanctions on Russia hit close to home for President Putin with his daughters now targeted; plus what can be done legally with these sanctions.
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Post by Admin on Apr 13, 2022 12:21:21 GMT
Meet the kids of the Kremlin 7,845 views Apr 13, 2022 While their parents publicly rail against the West, Kremlin-connected children grew up in the countries their parents denounce. #CNN #News
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