"Putin's biggest secret" is taking a leisurely stroll through Germany

Still, it is known that he has two daughters from his marriage with his ex-wife Lyudmila Ocheretnaya. They are 35-year-old Katerina Tikhonova and 37-year-old Maria Vorontsova, who in April were on the list of American and European sanctions aimed at Putin's family and close associates.
On that occasion, Tikhonova was described by the White House as a technology director whose work is supported by the Russian government and the defense industry. In 2013, she married Kirill Shamalov, the son of a longtime friend of Putin's, who was also sanctioned by the US in 2018 for his role in the Russian energy sector.
The U.S. Treasury Department said that "his wealth increased dramatically after his marriage." The couple reportedly divorced in 2017.
According to Western media, Tikhonova heads the Institute for Innovation and Intellectual Development at Moscow State University. After the divorce, she allegedly ended up in a relationship with Igor Zelensky (53), a Russian ballet dancer and theater director who lives in Germany, where he led the Bavarian State Ballet until March of this year, from where he had to leave after he refused to publicly condemn Putin's aggression on Ukraine, writes Index.hr.
The German newspaper Spiegel carried out a thorough investigation and confirmed that in the last few years, Tikhonova herself regularly visited Bavaria accompanied by bodyguards, without the German authorities even knowing about it. Moreover, a "superior double room" was reserved for her in one of Munich's most exclusive hotels, the Mandarin Oriental.
According to that and other passenger data, copies of passports and internal e-mails of the Russian security apparatus they obtained, Tikhonova traveled to Germany more than 20 times in the past few...

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