Katerina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova will be subject to asset freezing and travel bans, although it is unclear whether any of them have ever visited the UK or hold assets that are within the reach of British officials. The United States imposed sanctions on women on Wednesday, with a senior US official saying many of Putin’s assets were hidden from family members. There have been persistent but unconfirmed reports that Putin has other daughters, but Tikhonova and Vorontsova are his only publicly recognized children. Both were appointed by the United Kingdom on Friday as part of an urgent process under which the government could impose sanctions on allies if they believed it was in the public interest. The urgency procedure gives the UK 56 days to find its own data. The EU has also imposed sanctions on the sisters as part of a new package targeting the Russian economy, businessmen and oligarchs, according to two EU officials who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. No daughters were added to the EU sanctions list on Friday morning. A report on the EUobserver website earlier this week, citing a draft version of this EU list, claimed that the sanctions to be announced soon would also cover many spouses, ex-wives, stepdaughters and mothers-in-law of pro-oligarchs. Putin’s daughters and his ex-wife Lyudmila have kept a low public profile and have not made any formal public appearances with him as adults. The UK sanctions report said Vorontsova was born in April 1985 in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, and that Tikhonova was born a year later in Dresden, where Putin worked secretly as a KGB spy until the fall of the Soviet Union. Union. The United States has described Tikhonova as a “technology executive.” He said Vorontsova, a pediatric endocrinologist studying the effects of hormones on the body, was leading state-funded programs that “have received billions of dollars from the Kremlin for genetic research and are personally overseen by Putin.” Tikhonova, who uses her grandmother’s surname from her mother, studied at St. Petersburg State University and Moscow State University and has a master’s degree in physics and mathematics. Subscribe to the daily Business Today email or follow the Guardian Business on Twitter at @BusinessDesk While Putin had previously stated that they were “living their own lives”, the US government said there were indications that those around them had taken advantage of their father’s power. Tikhonova was previously married to Kirill Shamalov, who was appointed to US sanctions in April 2018 in response to Russia’s “global malice.” The US government said Shamalov married Tikhonova in February 2013. “His fortune improved dramatically after the marriage,” the United States said, noting that it had acquired a large stake in Sibur, a Russian oil and gas company, and a $ 1 billion loan from state-owned Gazprombank that helped “Elite of billionaires”.
