As the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues, news and gossip about the private life of Russian President Vladimir Putin emerge. One is about his alleged (secret) relationship with his ex Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva38, with whom he would have four children.
Born in 1983, she started practicing rhythmic gymnastics when she was only three years old and, at 15, she won the European Championships in Portugal. She was, at the time, the youngest member of the Russian team. She became European champion once again in 1999, before winning the world title in Osaka. In her career he has totaled two Olympic medals, 14 world and 21 European.
Together with colleague Irina Chashchina, in 2001 it turned out positive for doping, and this resulted in disqualification for two years from participation in any competition. In 2004 he announced his retirement, which however only materialized in 2007.
Between 2007 and 2014, Alina Kabaeva was also member of the Russian parliament, the Dumaafter being elected with the party United Russia. During that time she voted for a series of controversial lawssuch as the Anti-Magnitsky bill, which banned the international adoption of Russian orphans in the United States, and the Russian law on ‘gay propaganda’ which made ‘propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations’ among minors punishable. She was also a model and tried (unsuccessfully) to be a singer.
Rumors have been circulating for years about her alleged relationship with Putin: Kabaeva has even been nicknamed the “Secret first lady”, but their relationship was never confirmed neither from one nor from the other.
The couple is said to have four children, two boys and two twins, born in Switzerland and with a Swiss passport. At the moment, while Ukraine is being attacked by Russia, Kabaeva would be with them in a safe chalet somewhere in Switzerland.
From 1983 to 2014, Putin was married to his first wife, Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Ocheretnaya, former flight attendant for the Russian airline Aeroflot. She and her two daughters, Maria and Katerina, born in 1984 and 1985 respectively, have always lived away from the spotlight.
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Source: Vanity Fair
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