Putin's private life: secret, parades and rumors of twins

In

Russia

there is an unwritten law for journalists that says it's easier to criticize the president

Vladimir Poutine

for his mistakes when he talks about national security issues, which investigate his privacy.

The taboo is such that since last month, the Russians wonder if Putin, divorced and aged 66, was the father of twins. According to the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, Putin's alleged girlfriend and former Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva reportedly gave birth to twins on 7 May. The newspaper removed the information from its website shortly after downloading it.

Nicknamed "the first secret woman", Kabaeva, 36, has been badociated with Putin since 2008. At that time, the president was still married to his wife Lyudmila Shkrebneva, with whom he had two daughters. It is the newspaper Moskovski Korrespondent who launched bomb: he badured that the president was separated and maintained a relationship with the ex-gymnast. The newspaper suddenly disappeared, according to the official version, because of "financial problems".

We know that Putin is more than suspicious of privacy. In 2008, during a visit to Italy and alongside his friend, ex-member Silvio Berlusconi, a brave journalist asked him about his case. Putin has been outspoken: "There is not a word of truth in what you say." Then he added, "I have always had a negative feeling with regard to those who, with their dirty noses and erotic ghosts, were immersing themselves in the lives of others."

The two mysterious girls

After announcing his divorce in 2013, Putin confessed to the press that he heard better with Lyudmila Shkrebneva than when he was married. Besides Putin, Peter the Great, perhaps the most influential leader in the history of Russia, was the only Russian leader to have divorced while he was in power more than 300 years ago .

As with everything about Putin, there are not many details about his ex-marriage. It is known that he met Lyudmila by mutual friends in 1980 while the young woman was studying Hispanic philology and air hostess Aeroflot national airline.

In an interview in 2000, Lyudmila said that Putin was "badly dressed" and found him "very unattractive". "I would not have been paying attention on the street," he said. But Putin persisted and they got married in 1983.

Two years later, in April 1985, Katerina was born, the first daughter of the couple, and in August 1986, Maria was born in Dresden, East Germany, where Putin worked for the KGB.

Putin's daughters are also a mystery to the press. In 2017, in the documentary
Interview with Putin, by American director Oliver Stone, Putin admitted he was a grandfather, but did not have much time to play with his grandchildren. He also revealed that his daughters "are not dedicated to politics or big business, but to science and education". In December 2015, he said at a press conference that his two daughters lived in Russia and had not exiled, according to rumors. He insisted that he was not generally commenting on the workplace of his daughters "mainly for security reasons". "My daughters are taking the first steps of their career, but they have already had some success.I consider that every person has the right to his own destiny, my daughters have never been children stars and have never been loved being in the center of the stage, "he said.

Last December, the appearance of Katerina, the eldest daughter of Putin, in a Russian television show opened a breach in the jealous intimacy of the family. Katerina never mentioned that she was the president's daughter. She was interviewed as part of a project as Assistant Director of Mathematical Research on Complex Systems at the Moscow State University. In addition to being a scientist, Katerina is an acrobat. It is also known that she was fifth in the world of dance in Switzerland five years ago.

The life of the president's youngest daughter is even more blurred. In June 2018, Rossiya 1, another state-run channel, interviewed Maria Vorontsova about her work as a children's endocrinologist. According to Russian media reports, Maria is Putin's other girl and uses a fake name.

"It's a vampire"

We do not know much about marriage, but in 2001, a German friend of Lyudmila, Irene Pietsch,
He published the book "Fragile Friendships" where he gave some details about the relationship.

"Unfortunately, it's a vampire," said Lyudmila jokingly about her husband, according to the book. For his part, Putin told Pietsch that someone deserves a monument if he could stay three weeks with Lyudmila. Other acquaintances tend to describe them as simply too different to hear.

After several rumors and that his wife has not been seen in public for nearly a year, June 6, 2013, in the middle of a ballet, Putin said, with Lyudmila next, that "the love was out", that they had separated and that the divorce would not be long in coming.

In 2016, Sobesednik magazine published that the former wife had remarried with businessman Artur Ocheretni, 20 years younger than her. A few months earlier, Putin asked if he had a girlfriend and replied, "I have to marry my ex-wife first, then we'll see."

A supposed forbidden love and more children

The Russian President and Kabaeva met in the early 2000s when the rhythmic gymnast of Uzbek origin had been used to the podiums. Nicknamed "Russia's most elastic woman", Alina was a bronze medalist at the 2000 Olympics, a gold medal four years later in Athens, two-time world champion and five-time champion of the Olympics. Europe.

With the exception of some gala dinners, both never appeared in public. Alina continued her career. After gymnastics, he entered politics. Until 2014, he held a seat of deputy of the United Russia presidential party. He then joined the group National Media Group, owner of television networks, radios, newspapers and film production companies.

The press began to tell them in 2008, but none of them confirmed the novel. Although Putin does not talk about his private life, he sometimes gave a clue. In 2018, a journalist from Life News – a publication controlled by the Alina company – asked the president at his annual television news conference in Moscow: "When will he get married? And with whom? " Putin smiled and replied, "As an honest person, I will have to do it sooner or later." That day, everyone saw Kabaeva's hand behind the dialogue.

The last known thing was the alleged birth of the twins. The story was revealed exclusive by the information website of
Dom2Life May 12, Kabaeva's 36th birthday.

According to the publication, the entirety of the fourth floor VIP Kulakov hospital was cleaned for the birth of the ex-gymnast. Serguei Kanev, a research journalist close to Russian intelligence services, wrote on Facebook that Kabaeva had given birth to twins by caesarean section. "Half of the medical team has been expelled," he added. In the area, there were "countless" security guards, who "sniffed every corner" of the maternity ward before their arrival.

In Russia, it is said that with the twins, Kabaeva has expanded the family since, since meeting Putin, she would also be the mother of a 10-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl. as the first lady.

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