High-ranking people are often credited with the presence of mistresses and illegitimate children. Clinging to the slightest detail, journalists inflate a real sensation, concocting incredible facts and details. Of particular interest is the personal life of Vladimir Putin. In addition to the unconfirmed novel with Alina Kabaeva, the discussion continues that the younger daughter of the president is Ekaterina Tikhonova, head of the National Intellectual Development Fund.
How did it all start?
The initiator of the investigation was journalist Oleg Kashin. In 2015, he published a scandalous article with a modest title "She".Pros "for"
- About Tikhonova, practically nothing is known. Her biography is a solid white spot, and she refuses any comments and interviews. It is unlikely that such secrecy is a woman's whim or caused by the natural modesty of the girl. It is known only that Catherine was born in the GDR precisely at the time when Vladimir Vladimirovich lived there.
- Many Internet users saw a clear similarity between the dancer and Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putin (the ex-wife of the president).
- The mother-in-law of Vladimir Vladimirovich is Yekaterina Tikhonovna Shkrebneva. Oleg Kashin suggested that Putin's daughter took herself a pseudonym, invented on the basis of her grandmother's middle name. For a long time, T.Partner Tikhonovna's acrobatic dances were Ivan Klimov. Interestingly, an employee with the same name is listed in the National Intellectual Development Fund.
- It is known that Ekaterina is married to Kirill Shamalov, whose father is considered a good friend of Vladimir Putin (in the dashing 90's they founded the summer cooperative "Lake").
- Even more issues caused the involvement of women in the scientific council of Moscow State University. It is not clear how she joined it (at the age of 27!) Without writing any scientific article or thesis. In other people's works Tikhonov was listed only as a co-author. Most likely, without the patronage of higher forces there could not have been.
- Reuters informed readers that Manfred Mohab (vice-president of the world confederation of rock and roll on legal issues) confirmed the relationship of the dancer and the president of the Russian Federation. According to the journalist, he twice received an affirmative answer to the question of close relations between Tikhonova and Putin.
- Earlier, the agency referred to the words of the chairman of the board of Gazprombank. Andrei Akimov was the first to confirm the guesses of Reuters: "I knew that this was Putin's daughter. But, of course, we decided to support the projects of the Moscow State University regardless of any family ties. "
Cons "against"
- The correspondents did not wait for an official refutation of the Internet hypothesis, but Manfred Mohab and Andrei Akimov said that they never spoke about Catherine Tikhonova in the context of kinship with the president. The agencies that referred to their words did not provide the promised video and audio recordings as evidence. A bit of specifics added Dmitry Peskov.
- Speaking about his family, the president made it clear that his daughters are non-public figures who are not related to politics and business. Vladimir Vladimirovich said that he did not want to tell details for security reasons. Perhaps the journalists are very hooked on this topic, so they decided to fan a whole spy story, incidentally growing new details.
- The personal life of Putin and his family regularly affects all media from international agencies to the yellow press. Daughters of the president are constantly given in marriage. For example, in 2010, the wedding of the same Catherine with the Korean diplomat En Zhong-gu was actively discussed in the network. Again, as a proof, the words of high-ranking people were quoted, but history turned out to be another newspaper duck.