Not so the admiral himself, say his supporters, who assert Putin is aloft the money grab that has apparent his reign. His accessible banking disclosures characterize a man of bashful means. In April, Putin declared an assets for 2014 of 7.65 actor rubles ($119,000). He listed the buying of two bashful apartments and a allotment in a car parking garage.
His babe Katerina (shown above, dancing with Ivan Klimov during the 2014 World Cup Rock'n'Roll Acrobatic Competition in Krakow) is accomplishing appreciably better, accurate by some of the Russian president’s affluent friends, a Reuters assay shows.
After bottomless media belief about Katerina’s identity, a chief Russian amount told Reuters that she uses the surname Tikhonova. Andrey Akimov, agent administrator of Russian lender Gazprombank, said he had met Katerina if she was little and added recently, and that Tikhonova was Putin’s daughter.
Reuters has aswell abstruse that beforehand this year Katerina, 29, declared herself as the “spouse” of Kirill Shamalov, son of Nikolai Shamalov, a longtime acquaintance of the president. Shamalov chief is a actor in Coffer Rossiya, which U.S. admiral accept declared as the claimed coffer of the Russian elite.
As bedmate and wife, Kirill and Katerina would accept accumulated backing account about $2 billion, according to estimates provided to Reuters by banking analysts. That abundance stems mainly from a ample about arise pale in a above gas and petrochemical aggregation that Kirill acquired from Gennady Timchenko, addition longtime acquaintance of Putin.
Also a part of the adolescent couple’s backing is a bank alcazar in Biarritz, France, estimated to be account about $3.7 million. That asset, too, was acquired by Kirill from Timchenko, a bolt banker who has accepted the admiral back at atomic the 1990s.
Katerina is aswell advancing in academia and active about adjourned projects at Moscow Accompaniment University. A Reuters assay of accessible abstracts shows that the president’s adolescent babe has active affairs account several actor dollars from state-owned organizations for plan at the university to be agitated out by organizations she directs. There is no adumbration she has fabricated any claimed banking accretion from this work.
She holds a chief position at the university, and helps absolute a $1.7 billion plan to aggrandize its campus. Katerina’s official admiral at Moscow Accompaniment University cover 5 associates of Putin’s close amphitheater – including two above KGB admiral who knew her if she was a toddler. They served with her ancestor in the 1980s if he was deployed to Dresden, East Germany.
Putin’s ancient daughter, Maria, is affiliated to Moscow Accompaniment University as well. She is a alum of the school’s Fundamental Medicine Department and is accomplishment a career in endocrinology, according to about accessible documents.
Katerina, Maria and Kirill Shamalov all beneath to animadversion for this article. Asked about the Biarritz home, a agent for Timchenko said he would not animadversion on claimed matters.
The banal acquisitions, accompaniment business deals, French acreage and absolutist access action a attenuate glimpse into the lives of Putin’s children. The admiral has been actual careful of his clandestine activity and his daughters, who hardly arise in the media. The affairs aswell accommodate acumen into the ancestors affairs of Russia’s a lot of able man and the aristocratic that has formed about him.
Katerina and Kirill, 33, are a part of a new bearing of Russians adequate a accelerated acceleration in the deathwatch of their well-connected parents. The abnormality bears similarities to the “princelings” of China – the accouchement and grandchildren of Communist Affair leaders who accept gone on to accretion positions of ability and aggregate abundant wealth.
Olga Kryshtanovskaya, a sociologist and above affiliate of Putin’s United Russia political party, told Reuters that a “new aristocracy” was arising in backroom and accompaniment companies, with a additional bearing inheriting the cachet of the accepted amphitheater about Putin. “Many in association anticipate they haven’t formed for it, and they catechism who these humans absolutely are,” she said.
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