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"Crown Princes"/ The lonely and secret life of Putin's sons

2024-09-21 23:02:02Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA ROBERT COALSON DHE ARTYOM RADYGIN

 

"Crown Princes"/ The lonely and secret life of Putin's sons
Putin and Alina Kabayeva

 

In June, Russia's Radio Free Europe Service reported that satellite images showed that Russian President Vladimir Putin's Valdai resort residence has been fortified with anti-aircraft defenses - apparently to protect against Ukrainian drones.

The lakeside home — halfway between St. Petersburg and Moscow and a 20-minute helicopter ride from the Kremlin — is the primary residence of Putin's two young sons, according to a report by the Dossier Center, an investigative news outlet funded by former oil tycoon and vocal critic of Putin, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who lives in exile.

Journalists have long reported that Putin has two sons with former Olympic gymnast and politician Alina Kabayeva, but the report in the Dossier — based largely on interviews with a source who lived and worked at the residence and spent time with the two sons — goes much further.

Putin, 71, and the Kremlin have been tight-lipped about the president's family during his decades in power.

"I never discuss my family with anyone. Every person has the right to his own destiny. They live their lives and they do so with dignity," Putin said during a televised press conference in 2015.

 

"Crown Princes"/ The lonely and secret life of Putin's sons
Athlete Alina Kabayeva, during a sporting event in Kazan in June.

 

However, this month, during a visit to the Tyva region, Putin made an unusual comment while visiting a local school.

"Some of my family members, the little ones, also speak Chinese - fluently," he said.

It is not clear whether he was referring to the three grandchildren he reportedly has from his two daughters from his marriage to Lyudmila Putin, which ended in divorce in 2014, or the sons he is said to have with Kabayevan, 41, and who were born in 2015 and 2019.

The girls

Putin's eldest daughter, Maria, was born in Leningrad in 1985 and is currently 39 years old.

Although Putin has not confirmed the reports, she has been identified as endocrinologist Maria Vladimirovna Vorontseva. She has been heavily involved in a state-funded cancer center outside St. Petersburg as a major shareholder in a company called Nomeko, which manages the $634 million project.

Putin's youngest daughter Yekaterina was born in Dresden - then part of East Germany - in 1986 and is now 38. Journalists have identified her as Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova, the former acrobatic ballerina who runs a state-funded daycare center under the auspices of Moscow State University.

Ajo është gjithashtu zëvendësdrejtore e Institutit të Universitetit për Kërkime Matematikore të Sistemeve Komplekse. Nga viti 2013 deri në vitin 2018 ka qenë e martuar me biznesmenin miliarder, Kirill Shamalov.

 

"Crown Princes"/ The lonely and secret life of Putin's sons
Vladimir Putin dhe Lyudmila Putina në ditën e tyre të dasmës, korrik 1983.

 

Djemtë

Putin ka pasur lidhje romantike me Kabayevan që nga viti 2008, para se të divorcohej nga Lyudmila më 2014.

Në vitin 2020, ueb-faqja ruse The Insider ka raportuar se gjinekologia kryesore e Ministrisë së Shëndetësisë, Leila Adamyan, dhe vajza e saj janë regjistruar si pronare të një pasurie të paluajtshme në Moskë, me vlerë rreth 1 miliard rubla, apo 11 milionë dollarë.

Blerja është bërë disa muaj pas raporteve se Kabayeva ka lindur në Qendrën Kombëtare të Kërkimeve Mjekësore për Obstetrikë, Gjinekologji dhe Perinatologji, Kulakov, në Moskë, ku Adamyan ka punuar.

Gazetari hulumtues, Sergei Kanev, ka raportuar në atë kohë se spitali është kontrolluar dhe siguruar tërësisht nga agjentët e Shërbimit Federal të Mbrojtjes (FSO).

Më 23 maj të vitit 2019, dy javë pasi Kabayeva ka lindur, Putin i ka dhënë personalisht Adamyanit urdhrin Për Shërbim ndaj Atdheut, në një ceremoni luksoze në Kremlin.

Sipas raportit në Dossier, djali i parë i Putinit me Kabayevan, Ivani, ka lindur në vitin 2015, ndërsa djali i tij më i vogël, Vladimiri, ka lindur në vitin 2019. Dossier tha se ka edhe fotografi të djemve, por se ka vendosur të mos i publikojë ato, për t’i mbrojtur të miturit.

“Ata nuk kalojnë shumë kohë me prindërit e tyre”, i tha Shërbimit rus të Radios Evropa e Lirë Ilya Rozhdestvensky, hulumtues kryesor për raportin në Dossier.

“Sipas informacioneve tona, rreth 30 deri në 60 minuta në ditë... Dadot, në njëfarë mase i zëvendësojnë prindërit e tyre, duke ngrënë mëngjes me ta dhe duke i mësuar e duke ushtruar me ta”, tha ai.

Sipas tij, Ivani, në veçanti, e do shumë Putinin.

“Djali gëzohet shumë për ndeshjet e tyre të përbashkëta të hokejit. Djemtë luajnë në një ekip me Vladimir Putinin kundër agjentëve të FSO-së. Ivani u ka treguar shërbëtorëve një histori... duke u thënë se prindërit e tij i kanë treguar se kur ka lindur ai, babai i tij ka qenë aq i lumtur saqë ka bërtitur: Urra! Më në fund, djalë!”, rrëfeu Rozhdestvensky.

"Crown Princes"/ The lonely and secret life of Putin's sons
Alina Kabayeva, kampione olimpike në gjimnastikë artistike pas marrjes së shpërblimit nga presidenti Vladimir Putin në Moskë, 21 dhjetor 2005.

Ai tha se të dy djemtë po mësojnë anglisht dhe gjermanisht.

“Ka mundësi që janë duke u përgatitur për karriera atletike. Ata kanë trajnerë profesionistë - njëri në gjimnastikë dhe tjetri në not. Kanë edhe një mësues shahu. Djali i madh studion edhe lëndë akademike”, sipas tij.

“Ata rrallë shohin fëmijë të moshës së tyre. Vetëm në festa si Viti i Ri, kur familja i fton miqtë. Miqtë - pasi kalojnë disa javë në karantinë - mbërrijnë në Valdai dhe i sjellin fëmijët e tyre”, tha Rozhdestvensky.

“Princat e kurorës”

The Dossier's insider source also directed investigators to an ad that appeared earlier this year on the website of elite recruitment agency English Nanny - a company that recruits domestic helpers for wealthy people from Russia, Kazakhstan, China and elsewhere.

The ad sought an "English teacher for two children aged 4 and 8 in the St. Petersburg region."

"The family lives in isolation," the ad said. It offered a monthly salary of 7,700 euros and said that the tutor "would work in isolation" and "would not leave the employer's territory".

According to the report in the Dossier, workers at the home are reluctant to discipline the children or set limits, and the boys grow up in an atmosphere of private jets and yachts.

The superyacht Scheherazade, which is now in Tuscany, Italy. Photo from the archive.

Before Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, they regularly spent time with Kabayevan on the Russian president's 82-meter yacht Graceful, worth $119 million, the report said.

"If everyone runs after them and fulfills their every wish and they act like they're crown princes... then it's no wonder they take everything for granted," Rozhdestvensky said.

Russian journalist Konstantin Eggert, who works for Deutsche Welle, said Putin's sons "live exactly as the children of Russia's imperial family lived, except in a more closed spiritual and physical space."

"It is clear that they think of themselves as a new nobility, a new aristocracy. They rule Russia exactly as it was ruled in the era of slavery," said Eggert.

"The life of these young nobles, compared to the massive shelling of Ukrainian cities, is a monstrous contrast of our times", according to him.

"Of course, this is a sign of the moral decay of the Russian elite and the indifference of Russian society. This speaks volumes for Russia's moral crisis. The fate of these two boys is only part of the big landscape of this monstrous crisis, which has been developing for years", says Eggert. / Radio Evropa e Lire

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