According to Page Six, Vladimir Putin’s mistress Alina Kabaeva is allegedly hiding in Switzerland with their four young children.
“While Putin carries out his assault on Ukraine, attacking innocent citizens and causing a refugee crisis, his family is holed up in a very private and very secure chalet somewhere in Switzerland – for now, at least,” a source said.
Kabaeva, an Olympic gold medalist, is said to have four children with Putin, 69, but the couple has never officially confirmed it.
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According to different sources, they have 7-year-old twin daughters who were born in February 2015 near Lugano, Switzerland. They are also thought to have two other sons after the first child.
“Alina has two young boys and twin girls with Putin who were born in Switzerland. The kids all have Swiss passports, and I imagine she does also,” a source revealed to the outlet about Putin’s alleged children with 38-year-old Kabaeva.
The Russian president is well-known for his aversion to questions about his personal life.
“I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected. I have always reacted negatively to those who with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies prowl into others’ lives,” he once said.
Putin, who has two other adult daughters from his first marriage to former flight attendant Lyudmila Shkrebneva, Maria, 36, and Katerina, 35, has worked hard to keep his children out of the media and spotlight.
Vladimir Putin rarely mentions them in public, so it’s unclear how many children he actually has.
Vladimir Putin and Shkrebneva had been married for three decades before divorcing in 2013. Maria was born in Leningrad in 1985, while Katerina was born in Germany in 1986, while the family was living there during Putin’s time in the KGB.
Kabaeva is one of rhythmic gymnastics’ most decorated athletes, having won two Olympic medals, 14 World Championship medals, and 21 European Championship medals.
She was dubbed “Russia’s most flexible woman” and once posed naked for a men’s magazine while wrapped in animal fur.
The Moskovsky Korrespondent, a Russian newspaper, reported in 2008 that Putin had divorced his wife and was planning to marry Kabaeva. The Kremlin denied the story, and the newspaper was shut down.
However, speculation about Putin’s relationship with the former gymnast has persisted, with numerous reports and allegations that they have multiple children together. According to sources, they may have even married in a private Russian Orthodox ceremony.
Kabaeva went on to become a pro-Kremlin member of parliament for eight years before being appointed by the Kremlin to run the state-owned National Media Group in 2014, with a reported annual salary of $10 million.
Despite her high-profile role, she has been rarely seen in public in recent years.
In July 2013, Kabaeva denied having any children at all, despite reports that she had given birth to a daughter at the prestigious Saint Ann hospital in Ticino, Switzerland.
However, speculation about Putin’s relationship with the former gymnast has persisted, with numerous reports and allegations that they have multiple children together. According to sources, they may have even married in a private Russian Orthodox ceremony.
Kabaeva went on to become a pro-Kremlin member of parliament for eight years before being appointed by the Kremlin to run the state-owned National Media Group in 2014, with a reported annual salary of $10 million.
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Despite her high-profile role, she has been rarely seen in public in recent years.
In July 2013, Kabaeva denied having any children at all, despite reports that she had given birth to a daughter at the prestigious Saint Ann hospital in Ticino, Switzerland.
It is unclear how these sanctions might affect Putin’s children and Kabaeva, given that they all allegedly hold Swiss passports and that his assets are carefully hidden.
While Vladimir Putin has remained silent about his children, his ex-wife described him as a loving and doting father on the Russian president’s official website.
