Putin's Kids

From the G & M:
"Russian blogger claims to have revealed secret identity of Putin’s daughter"

One of Vladimir Putin’s main opponents may have broken a taboo by publishing what he says is the pseudonym used by one the Russian President’s daughters to stay out of the spotlight. Putin has made his and his family’s private life little less than a state secret, keeping his rarely-photographed daughters Yekaterina, 28, and Maria, 29, out of sight and managing his divorce with the minimum fuss.  But opposition blogger Alexei Navalny on Thursday published on his Facebook page an online report which identified a certain Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova as the head of an organization working with Moscow State University. Navalny wrote on his Facebook page: “RBC (they are cool!) yesterday found Putin’s daughter in the Scientific Council of Moscow State University.” A source close to Moscow State University confirmed Tikhonova was Putin’s daughter, telling Reuters on condition of anonymity: “Yes, it is her.” Tikhonova could not be reached for comment. The Kremlin often brushes aside questions about Putin’s private life, defending his right it privacy. Asked about the woman’s identity, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “I don’t know who she is.” Sergey Aleksashenko, a former official at the central bank who is now an opposition figure, questioned in a blog whether it was correct for Tikhonova to hold such a role in a business project if she is indeed Putin’s daughter. “If this is true, it means that Vladimir Putin has crossed one of those ‘red lines’ he once drew for himself,” he wrote. Putin is so secretive about his family that most Russians have no idea what his daughters look like. It is also not public knowledge where his ex-wife Lyudmila is living since their divorce was finalized last year. Putin did, however, say in November that his daughters both live in Russia and he sees them once or twice a month. Media reports last year said Maria had lived in the Netherlands until Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing 298 people, many of them Dutch nationals. She fled after the local mayor called for her deportation, though he later retracted his comments. Putin and Lyudmila announced their breakup to a television interviewer in June, 2013, and they formally divorced in April last year after more than 30 years of marriage. He told journalists at the time to keep their “snotty noses” out of his private affairs and the newspaper, Moskovsky Korrespondent, folded shortly afterward.

 

^ If this woman, Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova, is Putin's daughter they didn't do a good job in changing her name to disguise her. Katerina is so close to her real name of Yekaterina and Vladmirovna (which means daughter of Vladimir) just lets everyone know her father's name is Vladimir (Putin's first name is Vladimir.) Someone will probably end up in Siberia if this is true. ^

 

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/russian-blogger-claims-to-know-secret-pseudonym-of-putins-daughter/article22699283/