Log out. US Markets Loading H M S In the news. Mia Jankowicz and Ellen Cranley. Russian president Vladimir Putin has at least two, possibly three, daughters he rarely talks about. He has two adult daughters with his ex-wife Lyudmila Shkrebneva: Maria, 36, and Katerina, Katerina spoke at a major conference in June , but nobody acknowledged who her father is.
See more stories on Insider's business page. Putin had two daughters in his first marriage to former flight attendant Lyudmila Shkrebneva, to whom he was married for three decades until their divorce in Their daughter's names are Maria and Katerina. Maria was born in Leningrad in , and Katerina was born in Germany in when the family lived there during her father's time in the KGB.
Both girls are named after their grandmothers. Maria's nickname is Masha and Katerina's nickname is Katya. When the family moved to Moscow in , the girls attended a German-language school.
The children were reportedly removed from school when Putin became acting president, and teachers educated them at home. Maria studied biology in college and went to medical school in Moscow, while Katerina majored in Asian Studies in college.
Both girls attended university under false identities. Maria, now 36, is a medical researcher and lives in Moscow with her Dutch husband, Jorrit Faassen. Maria and Faassen reportedly have a child — Putin told filmmaker Oliver Stone in that he was a grandfather. When Stone asked if he played with his grandchild, Putin replied, "Very seldom, unfortunately.
Meanwhile, Katerina reportedly lives a high-flying life, living in lavish apartments and acquiring a fortune. And it showed Mr Putin's readiness to undermine pro-Western leaders in former Soviet states. Putin still in fashion 15 years on. Vladimir Putin's formative German years. Church lends weight to Putin patriotism. Mr Putin's entourage is a fabulously wealthy elite and he himself is believed to have a huge fortune. He keeps his family and financial affairs well shielded from publicity.
The Panama Papers leaks in exposed a murky network of offshore companies owned by a longstanding friend of Mr Putin - concert cellist Sergei Roldugin. Mr Putin and his wife of Lyudmila got divorced in after nearly 30 years of marriage. She described him as a workaholic. According to a Reuters news agency investigation, Mr Putin's younger daughter, Katerina, is thriving in academia , has a top administrative job at Moscow State University and performs in acrobatic rock 'n' roll competitions.
The elder Putin daughter, Maria, is also an academic, specialising in endocrinology. Reuters found that several other powerful figures close to Mr Putin - often ex-KGB - also have successful children in lucrative management jobs. He is passionate about ice hockey, like judo - and state TV has shown his skills on the ice.
Mr Putin's brand of patriotism dominates Russia's media, skewing coverage in his favour, so the full extent of opposition is hard to gauge. Even in , as prime minister under President Dmitry Medvedev, he was clearly holding the levers of power. In his first two terms as president, Mr Putin was buoyed by healthy income from oil and gas - Russia's main exports.
Living standards for most Russians improved. But the price, in the opinion of many, was the erosion of Russia's fledgling democracy. Since the global financial crisis Mr Putin has struggled with an anaemic economy, hit by recession and more recently a plunge in the price of oil. Russia lost many foreign investors and billions of dollars in capital flight. Mr Putin's rule has been marked by conservative Russian nationalism.
It has strong echoes of tsarist absolutism, encouraged by the Orthodox Church. The Church supported a ban on groups spreading gay "propaganda" among teenagers. Soon after becoming president Mr Putin set about marginalising liberals, often replacing them with more hardline allies or neutrals seen as little more than yes-men. Yeltsin favourites such as the oligarchs Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky ended up as fugitives living in exile abroad.
International concern about human rights in Russia grew with the jailing of oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once one of the world's richest billionaires, and of anti-Putin activists from the punk group Pussy Riot. Agents of the Russian state were accused of murdering him. Will Putin rule Russia forever? Russia-Turkey tension: How Putin acts in a crisis.
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Bush and the men hold a joint press conference. Bush tells reporters that during the two-hour meeting, he was able to get a sense of Putin's soul. May 24, - Putin and Bush sign the Moscow Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions, which requires each country to reduce its stockpiles of strategic nuclear warheads over the course of ten years.
March 15, - Is reelected after campaigning as an independent. May 7, - Putin is sworn in for his second term. April 27, - Becomes the first Russian leader to visit Israel. December 19, - Named Time magazine's Person of the Year. March 2, - Dmitry Medvedev is elected president of Russia. May 7, - Just two hours after his presidential swearing in, Medvedev names Putin as prime minister.
August - Russia engages in a military conflict with neighboring Georgia. September 24, - Medvedev calls on the ruling United Russia party to endorse Putin for president in Putin in turn suggests that Medvedev should take over the role of prime minister if the party wins parliamentary elections in December. Critics question the results amid complaints of voter fraud. May 7, - Putin is sworn in under tight security. Hundreds of protestors are detained by police.
December 14, - US President Barack Obama signs the Magnitsky Act, a law that imposes travel and financial restrictions on individuals in Russia suspected of human rights violations. The law is named for Sergey Magnitsky, a lawyer who died under mysterious circumstances in after finding evidence that Russian officials committed tax fraud. December 28, - In response to the Magnitsky act, Putin signs into law a bill that effectively bans US citizens from adopting Russian children.
The law also bans US-funded civic groups from operating in Russia. June 6, - During an interview broadcast on state-run television, Putin and his wife, Lyudmila, announce that their marriage is over. August 6, - Putin signs a decree that bans food and agricultural imports from countries that have imposed sanctions against Russia.
The two leaders discuss Ukraine and Syria, according to senior US officials. It is their first in-person meeting since Russia's incursion into Ukraine. July 25, - The FBI announces it has launched an investigation into the hacking of the Democratic National Committee's computer system. Although the statement doesn't indicate that the agency has a particular suspect or suspects in mind, US officials tell CNN they think the cyberattack is linked to Russia.
September 1, - During a Bloomberg News interview, Putin denies that the Russian government had any involvement in the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails.
December 30, - Putin says that Russia will not expel American diplomats in response to the Obama administration's new sanctions and expulsion of 35 diplomats from the United States.
He says he will instead try to rebuild relations with the incoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump. January 6, - The US Office of the Director of National Intelligence releases a declassified report concluding that Putin ordered an "influence campaign" aimed at hurting Hillary Clinton and helping Trump in the presidential election. January 17, - At a news conference, Putin says that a damning dossier about Trump is "false" and he dismisses allegations that his country's security services have been monitoring the US president-elect.
July 7, - Meets Trump for the first time on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. During a two-hour meeting, the men reportedly discuss allegations of Russian meddling in the US election and the war in Syria, among other things.
Hours later, they talk again informally during a dinner with other heads of state. July 30, - Putin announces that Russia is implementing a series of measures in response to a new sanctions bill approved by Trump. He says that staffers at US diplomatic missions in Russia will be ousted from their jobs. March 1, - During his annual address to Parliament, Putin boasts about the country's nuclear capabilities, declaring that Russian missiles can elude air defense systems.
In a video simulation, nuclear warheads are shown flying through space and raining down on a peninsula that resembles the state of Florida. March 18, - Putin wins the election, with His most prominent challenger, opposition leader Alexei Navalny was barred from running. International election monitors say that the votes were tallied in an orderly manner but they criticize the state-run media coverage of the presidential race, which heavily promoted Putin.
May 7, - Is sworn in as president for another six years. July 16, - Putin and Trump meet in Helsinki and hold a joint news conference. Trump declines to endorse the US government's assessment that Russia interfered in the election.
November 28, - Authorities in the United Kingdom assess that Putin approved a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy. One other woman who came into contact with the poison died.
The summit includes one-on-one talks, but it does not include any signed agreements or joint statements.
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