The US has placed Vladimir Putin's daughters on its latest sanction list after allegations of war crimes from their father's forces in Ukraine.

While Vladimir Putin may be the name on the lips of the world right now, not much is known about his two daughters with his former wife Lyudmila Putina, from whom he divorced in 2013, and a possible third, secret daughter.

Putin is notoriously tight-lipped about his daughters, saying in 2008 that he has "always disliked" those who "break into other people’s private affairs."

But, being Putin's offspring, Maria Vorontsova, 36, and Katerina Tikhonova, 35, were always going to be in the public interest.

Maria, the oldest, who also goes as Maria Fassen, is a paediatric endocrinologist and one of Russia's top experts on dwarfism.

The US said on Wednesday that Ms Vorontsova “leads state-funded programs that have received billions of dollars from the Kremlin towards genetics research and are personally overseen by Putin.”

Her early life was in East Germany, where her father served as a KGB agent. It is there that she reportedly showed great aptitude for the sciences at school as a young child.

Maria continued in Moscow as a teen, before going on to study biology at St Petersburg State University. She is married to Russian-born Dutch businessman Jorrit Faassen and the couple reportedly now live in Moscow.

Katerina, a former rock'n'roll dancer, enrolled at the same university as Maria and graduated with a degree in Asian studies, specialising in Japanese history, also holding degrees in physics and mathematics.

She is now director of Innopraktika, a $1.7bn project to create a science centre at Moscow State University. Katerina is also deputy director of the Institute for Mathematical Research of Complex Systems at the same institution.

She was married for five years to gas company executive Kirill Shamalov, Russia's youngest billionaire and son of the co-owner of Rossiya Bank.

The US described Ms Tikhonova as a “technology executive whose work supports the GoR [Russian government] and defence industry.”

But more peculiarly, she has a penchant for rock 'n roll dancing. In 2015, Reuters disclosed that a participant at a World Rock'n'Roll event was in fact Putin's daughter.

She also served as the vice president for expansion and marketing at the World Rock and Roll Confederation (WWRC), the body which organises competitions worldwide.

Putin has publicly spoken about his daughters only a handful of times. In a 2015 press conference, he stunned all when he said: "They studied only at Russian universities. I am proud of them. They continue to study and work."

Reuters reported in 2017 that Putin said he wanted his grandchildren to have a normal childhood.

“My daughters are involved in science and in education. They don’t interfere in anything, including politics. They live normally,” he said.

The Russian leader also allegedly has a secret daughter, 18-year-old Luiza Rozova. She is the daughter of multimillionaire Svetlana Krivonogikh, 45, once a cleaner and now one of Russia's wealthiest women.

The suspicion that Luiza was Putin’s daughter from an extra-marital affair was raised by an independent media outlet in Russia, now barred from operating by authorities.

Neither Luiza nor Svetlana have confirmed or denied the claims although Luiza, also known as Elizaveta, told Russian GQ that she 'probably' looks 'similar' to Putin in his younger days.

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https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putins-daughters-placed-sanctions-26652887#

They should go back to Russia with their luxurious assets. You wouldn't see children of most leaders in the West living and having luxurious assets in Russia. Russian politicians and businessmen like having luxurious assets in some of these western nations .

I will never support children suffering for the sins of their parents unless they are part of the corruption

They should go back to Moscow and invest in their country

All their investments should be in rubbles inside Russia

Their investments should have no connection to the west or EU

Let them do business with Syria and North Korea

Good luck to them

Pretty girls

joyandfaith:
They should go back to Russia. You wouldn't see children of most leaders in the West living in Russia.

Shekina

So I get to see Putin's 2 ugly beautiful daughters because America imposed sanctions on them

Well, it's expected that the US would find something against them since they are Putin's products. Let's see how far they go with the sanctions against Maria

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Wait someone actually married AND divorced Putin's daughter?

I day tell you. Some people really get mind

These ones were well brought up. Unlike that notorious Hunter Biden

ArchLimited:
Wait someone actually married AND divorced Putin's daughter?

yes sir,russia's youngest billionaire then.no be jst anybody oo

Will that stop their father..
This war is a game of Wisdom and Interest.

the United States are running out of sanctions and idea ,this seems like a weak blow, soon hem go start to they sanctions Russia badge lol, come on ,they can do better, fight proxy war with them, use a third party to purchase oil from them while is cheap.

ok

I no fit Marry any of the two because I no reached them presidential status yet ! So ........

And what are the sanctions

This war is far from being over, though the first objectives have been achieved...end of Petrodollar (which ofcox would've been treated as war crime by US had Russia dared ask the world to pay for Gas in Rubles before Ukraine demilitarization).

Objective 2: provoke the West enough to deploy fighters and weapons from Poland during the second demilitarization exercise of Ukraine which will enable and justify a proper Russia invasion of Poland and bring them back Under Warsaw Pact and fully demilitarize and reclaim Ukraine ofcox.

The West won't still do shit directly when all dis happens!

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Cowardice from US
Why not face Russian soldiers? What has this ladies done to Ukraine?
Is it their fault that their father is stubborn or has gone mad?

Is okay

Nawa o

Ok, we have met them. What's next?

Daughters of a monster!!

Both American and Russian feminists need be angry about this, successful women being suppressed by the patriarchy once again.

US is a nation of sanctions. But this is not what Ukraine expected.

Daughters of the demented war lord. Putin idaamu aye!

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Being a Lady is very Complicating sha.....
You Will be invited for a Meal meanwhile you're actually in the MENU

Seen

Putin=Putina - Puna - Putu..... Na wa oh!

Paying for the father's sin