Putin always treats his private life as a secret. It is known that he has at least two daughters. His second daughter appeared only a few years ago.
Munich – The Russian ruler Vladimir Putin is known for his authoritarian nature, for his actions contrary to international law, for his support of the Assad regime in Syria, for imprisoning critics like Alexei Navalny and most recently for his war of aggression in the Ukraine conflict. When it comes to the Kremlin boss, he is primarily associated with these issues. What is much less, or not at all, about his family. It’s a big secret.
Moscow government circles do not like to be heard when someone talks about the Russian President’s private affairs. Citing Russian journalists, the New York Times, it is easier to report on national security issues than on the Putin family. Very little is known about Putin’s children. According to Putin’s own statements, he has two daughters. The identity of the second daughter Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova was revealed only a few years ago.
Putin family: Multiple sources confirm Tikhonova as the daughter of Russia’s head of state
There is no coherent information about Tikhonova, but much more chunks of information. The fact that she is actually the daughter of Vladimir Putin only became known in 2015 due to her participation in a project of the Moscow State University worth 1.7 billion dollars. The then independent Russian media group RBC published a report in which Tikhonova was mentioned as Putin’s daughter. A year after this report, the editors-in-chief of RBC were fired and two editors from the state agency TASS took their place.
A source at Moscow State University confirmed to RBC that Tikhonova is indeed the daughter of the Russian President. The Kremlin would neither confirm nor deny this. After the media speculation, the Reuters news agency also got involved and asked a leading Russian businessman and two high-ranking academics. All confirmed the true identity of Tikhonova. Now there were no doubts – Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova is the daughter of Vladimir Putin.
Putin family: Public appearances and rise of daughter Tikhonova – leading role in state university
Tikhonova is the daughter of Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila Alexandrovna Ocheretnaya, to whom Putin was married from 1983 to 2014. She was born on August 31, 1986 in Dresden, where her father worked as a KGB agent. She has an older sister named Maria Vorontsova, who was born a year before her in 1985. In her childhood she went to a German school in Saint Petersburg and later to the school at the German embassy in Moscow, how Focus reported. According to the New York Times Both of Putin’s daughters attended their schools under aliases and their classmates did not know their real identities.
During her studies, Tikhonowa concentrated on the Asian region. She specialized in Japanese studies at both Saint Petersburg and Moscow State University. Also a professional rock ‘n’ roll dancer, Tikhonova was married to Russian businessman and billionaire Kirill Shamalov from 2013 to 2018, who for a time held the position of economic adviser to the Russian government. Gradually, Tikhonova began to appear more often on television.
In 2018, for example, she appeared in a short report on the Rossija TV station on the Innopraktika scientific project, which she took over as director. It is a high-tech company and a development institute. Another appearance followed in June 2021 at the International Economic Forum in Saint Petersburg – the Russian answer to Davos. The reason for this was a project on artificial intelligence at Moscow State University. Tikhonova, who has masters degrees in physics and mathematics, was appointed head of a new AI institute at Moscow University in February 2020. Her own institute, Innopraktika, was significantly involved in the project.
Putin family: Kremlin boss’s possible plan – Tikhonova Russian head of state after her father?
Especially after Tikhonova’s public appearances, many people are still wondering whether the Russian ruler Putin is already preparing his successor and whether he wants his daughter to become head of state after his departure. It is true that she has not been involved in Russian politics at all. After all, Russian President Putin emphasized that his daughters lead their “own lives”. But Tikhonova is in quite influential positions.
Reporting on Putin’s family is considered an absolute taboo in the Russian media landscape. And yet Tikhonova, Vladimir Putin’s secret daughter, suddenly appears on state television in Russia and speaks about her projects at an economic forum. She wasn’t introduced there as the president’s daughter, but it’s already sensitive enough that she appears in public. Whether Tikhonova or someone else – it will probably be some time before the world finds out about Putin’s successor. Because by law, the Kremlin boss theoretically extended his term of office until 2036. (bb)
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