Mirror reports.Natalia Gevorkyan, a Putin biographer, wrote for Radio Svoboda: "Trying to run a woman through an election campaign in Russia is quite an interesting and modern political experiment.“Putin does not have a (male) heir - at least officially.
But Katerina has already entered the public space with several huge and costly projects.“In 2024, Katerina will be 38. In theory, she can take part in the presidential elections and provide a calm time in old age for her father and his closest friends.”Maria was born in her father’s home city Leningrad - now St Petersburg - in 1985, and Katerina in Germany, where the family lived during Putin’s time in the KGB.The girls then attended a German-language school after the family moved to Moscow in 1996, but were taught at home after their father became acting president four years later.Both then studied at St Petersburg State University, under false identities.Maria, now 36, become a paediatric endocrinologist and a top expert on dwarfism.
She’s married to Dutch businessman Jorrit Faassen, with whom she shares a child - making Putin a grandfather.Katerina, 35, on the other hand, is best known for her success as an acrobatic rock ’n roll dancer and a member of Russia’s Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Mass Sports.She was previously married to Kirill Shamalov, the son of the co-owner of one of Russia’s largest banks.But while some might reasonably hope Putin’s Westernised daughters might be horrified enough to try his aggression, others aren’t so optimistic.Lyudmila Putina revealed how the president “spoils” Maria and Katerina.“Not all fathers are as loving with their children as he is.
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