Who Are Maria Vorontsova And Katerina Tikhonov, Vladimir Putin’s Daughters Sanctioned By The US?

Who Are Maria Vorontsova And Katerina Tikhonov, Vladimir Putin’s Daughters Sanctioned By The US?

You know, people always talk about how children receive the inheritance from their parents and how they should be grateful for it. However, they don’t know that at times, children also face the consequences of their parents’ actions. If you don’t believe us, take the example of Putin’s children who are being targeted by the United States because their father declared war against Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s daughters – Maria Vorontsova And Katerina Tikhonov are being added to the sanctions list by America. 

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Who Are Maria Vorontsova And Katerina Tikhonov? 

Maria Vorontsova And Katerina Tikhonov are the daughters of Vladimir Putin and his ex-wife Lyudmila Shkrebneva.

Vorontsova is the eldest one who was born on April 28, 1985, in St Petersburg. Now, she works as a paediatric endocrinologist. According to the reports, she grew up in Dresden, East Germany, her father used to work as a KGB agent. When she was a kid, Vorontsova used to play the violin, she went on to study biology at St Petersburg State University. She also studied medicine at Moscow State University. Currently, she reportedly lives in Moscow with her husband Jorrit Faassen, a Dutch businessman. 

On Wednesday, the US stated that Maria Vorontsova leads state-funded programs that received billions of dollars from the Kremlin for genetics research, as per reports.  

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Her younger sister Katerina was born on August 31, 1986, in Dresden. She is a former acrobatic rock ’n’ roll dancer. However, Katerina Tikhonov works as the director of Innopraktika now, a project to create a science centre at Moscow State University. And she’s also the deputy director of the Institute for Mathematical Research of Complex Systems at the same university. 

She graduated with a degree in Asian studies, physics and mathematics. In 2013, she tied the knot with Kirill Shamalov, a gas company executive and the son of the co-owner of Rossiya Bank. The couple got divorced in 2018. The US stated that she is a technology executive whose work supports the Russian government and the defence industry.

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According to the reports, America will freeze any assets of Maria and Katerina that are hidden in the country.

Apart from Maria Vorontsova And Katerina Tikhonov, Putin has multiple ‘secret’ children with his rumoured girlfriends, Alina Kabaeva and Svetlana Krivonogikh, as per reports.

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