There was an offer, but it didn’t reach the wedding: American journalists talked about the relationship between Putin, Kabaeva and their three children - ForumDaily
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There was an offer, but it didn’t reach the wedding: American journalists spoke about the relationship between Putin, Kabaeva and their three children

The Wall Street Journal said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has three children from gymnast Alina Kabaeva, the United States considered imposing sanctions on her, but “at the last minute” changed their minds. The publication shared the details with the BBC.

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Until now, the topic of relations between Putin and Kabaeva has been taboo, not only in the Russian media, but also in most Western ones.

The informational reason for the publication of the Wall Street Journal was information that Kabaeva could have been subject to sanctions in connection with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but was not included in the sanctions lists - allegedly in order not to anger Putin.

What the WSJ wrote

The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed US officials, writes that US authorities believe Kabaeva is a partner of the Russian president, with whom she has given birth to at least three children, and suspect her of hiding Putin's personal wealth abroad.

According to the WSJ, Kabaeva remains a potential target of U.S. sanctions, but among officials discussing the move, there is an opinion that imposing sanctions on the Olympic champion would be seen as such a personal blow to Putin that it could further escalate tensions between Russia and the United States and prevent peace talks with Ukraine.

According to representatives of the US and European intelligence services, Kabaeva spent a lot of time in Switzerland. US officials with knowledge of the gymnast's movements claim she lived in a high-walled mansion near Geneva.

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The WSJ notes that Ukrainian authorities sent a letter to the Swiss government this month demanding that Kabaeva be banned from entering the country and her property seized, but Swiss authorities said they had no information that she was in the country.

Kabaeva's name was first mentioned on the Kremlin website back in 2001. In 2008, the Moskovsky Korrespondent newspaper wrote that Putin, who was officially married at that time, proposed to Kabaeva. Putin, according to the WSJ, "vehemently denied" this information, and a few days later the newspaper was closed.

Around this time, Kabaeva left sports and became a deputy from the United Russia party, and in 2014 she left parliament and became chairman of the board of directors of the National Media Group holding.

Since about 2013, writes WSJ, Kabaeva and her relatives have acquired six apartments in Russia, two houses and land in the most prestigious places. Kabaeva and her family members did not respond to questions sent by email, writes WSJ.

Sources of the publication among Swiss, European and American officials claim that in 2015 Kabaeva gave birth to a child from Putin, and the birth took place in an elite Swiss clinic. Then the media wrote that Putin did not appear in public for eight days, suggesting that he was with Kabaeva. The Kremlin then stated that this was not true.

In 2019, according to WSJ interlocutors among US officials, Kabaeva gave birth to twins while in Moscow.

What is known about the children of Putin

Putin has two daughters from his marriage to Lyudmila Putina (Shkrebneva), from whom he announced a divorce in 2013. The Russian president does not like to talk about his family, and the last photo of him with his daughters was published in 2002.

On April 6, the US Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions against Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova and Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova, whom journalists called the daughters of the Russian president from an official marriage.

In the fall of 2020, the Proekt publication wrote about a resident of St. Petersburg named Svetlana Krivonogikh, who allegedly was Putin’s girlfriend, received “smart gifts” from his friends and became a shareholder of Rossiya Bank. In addition, as the publication wrote, the daughter of the Crooked Legs, Elizabeth, “is incredibly similar to the head of state.”

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The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the publication about the Crooked Legs, said that he had heard of such a woman for the first time.

Why information about Putin’s relatives is important

In world journalism, there are two main discourses on covering the personal lives of political leaders. The first one says: this information is of public interest only if members of the family of prime ministers or presidents use their position to enrich themselves. The second is usually referred to as “yellow”: any news from the life of the country's leader is interesting, even if, relatively speaking, his wife was seen drunk on the street, correspondent Andrei Zakharov believes.

“Putin carefully hides information about his family. But what is learned almost always falls within the realm of the first discourse. One of his daughters, Katerina Tikhonova, heads the Innopraktika scientific foundation, which receives numerous subsidies from the state and government agencies, writes Zakharov. “As I was able to establish, together with my colleagues in the recognized undesirable “Project,” the mother of his alleged third daughter, Svetlana Krivonogikh, is a shareholder of Rossiya Bank, which the US authorities called the bank of the president’s inner circle.”

According to Zakharov, the same situation is with Kabaeva - she heads the board of directors of the National Media Group, the main shareholder of which is the same Rossiya Bank. National Media Group owns several popular TV channels, including a stake in Channel One. True, after the start of the war with Ukraine, the information that Kabaeva worked there disappeared from the holding’s website.

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