As investigators in Ukraine’s Bukha revealed evidence of torture, beheadings and mutilations, as well as deliberate cremation, Washington said it would work with allies to hold Moscow accountable for its wartime actions and further isolate Russia from Russia. global economy. In Bucha, the extent of Russian barbarism comes to the fore Among the nearly two dozen Russian elites on Wednesday’s sanctions list are Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova and Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova – who are widely considered Putin’s daughters since his first marriage to Lyudmila Putin, although the Kremlin has not never publicly recognized as such. Identified by the US Treasury Department as Putin’s children, both women appear to be cooperating and benefiting from the Russian state apparatus. According to the department, Tikhonova is a technology executive whose work supports the Russian government and the country’s defense industry, and Vorontsova leads state-funded genetic research programs that have received billions of dollars from the Kremlin and are personally supervised by Putin. . Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov declined to comment on initial reports that Washington intended to impose sanctions on Putin’s daughters, according to Russia’s Tass news agency. The White House announced on April 6 a new round of sanctions on Russia, including sanctions on two of its largest banks and on the daughters of President Vladimir Putin. (Video: Reuters, Photo: Reuters) The Biden government has said it believes many of Putin’s personal assets are hidden from family members. Sanctions on Tikhonova and Vorontsova are also symbolically important because the move is knocking on Putin’s door more than imposing sanctions on Russian oligarchs, said Steven Fiss, a political scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. The revelation of Putin’s wealth in the names of his relatives and friends also shows that his regime is “kleptocratic” and “nepotistic,” Fish said, adding that additional sanctions could be imposed. sanctions against high-ranking Russian children. government officials to encourage infidelity among its staff. (Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s wife and daughter received sanctions from the United States on Wednesday, along with Putin’s daughters.) “Putin” wants to present this image of his regime as modern and rational; and so I think revealing the exact opposite would be a really good idea, “Fish said. Inside Russia’s propaganda bubble: Where a war is not a war The Russian leader has long preferred strong secrecy with regard to his family. His official biography, published on the Kremlin website, includes only the names of his daughters: Maria, born in 1985, and Katerina, born in 1986. The Russian investigative news agency Proekt reported that Putin has a “secret” third daughter. a teenager who became the father of a lover, but the girl’s relationship with Putin has not been clearly established. Even in the absence of official recognition, the position and growing influence of Vorontsova and Tikhonova in the Russian scientific and business communities is unquestionable. From 2018, both appear on state television in special reports on their respective works. Last year, Tikhonova participated in a panel at Russia’s top business conference as deputy director of the Institute for Complex Systems Mathematical Research at Moscow State University. (Prior to that, she had competed for years as an acrobatic rock and roll dancer, Reuters noted in a 2015 survey of her appearance to a new generation of Moscow’s elite.) Other panel guests were heads of her top universities. Russia, Russia’s Minister of Justice and the head of the country’s state investment fund. Faced in 2019 with a BBC reporter who asked Putin to confirm his relationship with Tikhonova and Vorontsova, the Russian leader avoided the question and told the reporter to do more research so that “you will understand what their job is and if they have any. and who owns what and who helps whom “. Isabelle Khurshudyan and Mary Ilyushina contributed to this report.
