A Russian anti-corruption campaigner has shared photos of Vladimir Putin’s youngest son as part of a long-standing investigation.
Maria Pevchikh disclosed details of how the ‘princes’ are educated at home in Putin’s hidden palaces by tutors on high salaries of $36,000 a month as she shared photos of the two children rumoured to be Putin’s secret sons.
Multiple pictures have since emerged of Swiss-born Ivan, but this is the first time 72-year-old Putin’s second son and youngest child is believed to have been pictured.
Six-year-old Vladimir Junior was born in Moscow in 2019, as for his brother Ivan, 10, there is no official information about him.
Their mother is said to be, Alina Kabaeva, 42, an Olympic gold medal winning gymnast.
Leaked data shows their teachers are secretly paid by a company linked to Putin-friendly oligarch Gennady Timchenko, 72, who also supports Kabaeva and boasts a £16 billion fortune, according to Ms Pevchikh.
Their German language tutors named as Sofia Bozic, 33, a Bosnian citizen, and Irene Ens, 36, from Germany.
‘Both Irene and Sofia are the personal tutors of Putin and Alina Kabaeva’s sons – Vladimir Jr and Ivan,’ said Pevchikh. ‘They are now six and ten years old.’
‘Sofia Bozic and Irene Enns regularly travel by train to Uglovka and Akulovka stations,’ she said in her latest investigative piece shared to YouTube.
‘These are the nearest railway stations to Putin’s residence in Valdai, where he is believed to spend most of his time with his children and Alina Kabaeva….’
It was revealed this week that at least a dozen state-of-the-art air defence systems guard this forest palace against attack by Ukrainian drones or missiles.
‘If primary school teachers from the regions — even from Moscow — are watching me now, I apologise in advance, brace yourselves’, Pevchikh added.
The tutors, she said, receive nearly $36,000 per month for their continued service – comparable, she noted, to what a German teacher in Russia might expect to earn over seven years.
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And they’re not paid by the pupils’ father — after all, Putin’s official salary is three times less than that of the foreign tutor.
‘[The money comes from] Gennady Timchenko, who holds Putin’s cashbox. That’s the essence of the corruption system built by Vladimir Putin.
‘From the very start of his first presidential term [in 2000] it was designed this way….and it continues to develop at a furious pace.’
Timchenko also made a payment of £4.6 million to Kabaeva’s foundation, according to Pevchikh in a new investigation called ‘Putin’s Common Fund: Who Pays for Putin and Kabaeva’s Luxurious Life?’
‘Putin’s beloved woman needs half a billion for a hobby,’ she said sarcastically.
‘Well, Putin can’t just transfer it to her from his own salary card.
‘And that’s when dear comrade Timchenko comes to the rescue, transferring it from the place where the common money is kept.’
Another payment of £4.2 million went to a clinic linked to Putin’s eldest daughter Maria Vorontsova, 40.
