Although the lives of the daughters of the President of the Russian Federation are hidden from the eyes of users, and Putin himself personally does everything to prevent information about his personal life and the private lives of his children from becoming public knowledge, ubiquitous journalists still managed to find out who his daughters are during all the years of Putin’s rule what they look like and where they studied. For example, Putin’s youngest daughter studied at the university in St. Petersburg. Now she works as part of the scientific team of Moscow State University, she is engaged in the development of mathematical models, is the head of the Innopraktika foundation, collaborates with various developers, for example, Kaspersky, and also writes scientific articles.

It is also known that the President’s daughter is married to businessman Kirill Shamalov. Shamalov Kirill Nikolaevich is Putin’s son-in-law, his nationality is “Russian” in his passport, but his family, judging by his surname, has Eastern roots. True, this year the media often flashes information that not everything is going smoothly in the lives of the spouses.

Kirill Shamalov is a famous Russian businessman, billionaire, and is a member of the board of one of the largest petrochemical industrial enterprises in Russia. According to Forbes magazine, the businessman's fortune is about one and a half billion dollars. Kirill Shamalov, as some media say, is Russia’s youngest billionaire, and at the same time has been the President’s son-in-law since 2013.

Although everyone knows for sure that in the circles of the political elite there is such a married couple as Ekaterina Putina and Kirill Shamalov, none of the publications managed to get a photo of the wedding with Putin’s daughter. Like everything about the lives of Putin’s daughters, the wedding is a secret behind seven locks. Although it was a luxurious event for many famous guests, the restaurant staff were strictly prohibited from taking photos or videos at the ceremony, or even giving interviews.

Biography of Putin's son-in-law - Kirill Shamalov

The fact that Catherine and Kirill met is not at all an accident. Putin's son-in-law, Kirill Shamalov, whose biography is quite successful, owes his current position and fortune to a greater extent to his father. Kirill is the son of Putin’s very good and close friend, Nikolai Shamalov, who is a co-owner of Rossiya Bank. Both of Nikolai’s sons have high positions, the youngest son, Yuri, is the head of the private pension fund Gazfond, and Kirill today holds the position of vice president of the Sibur company.

Various media outlets began writing about the fact that Kirill Nikolaevich Shamalov is Putin’s son-in-law in 2013. Although Ekaterina studied under a different surname, never bore the President’s surname, and is listed in university records as “Tikhonova,” journalists very quickly found a connection between the girl and the President’s family, and began to follow the life of researcher Ekaterina Tikhonova. Kirill Shamalov and Putin’s daughter, whose photos together are almost impossible to find, have been a married couple for five years now.

Children of Kirill and daughters of Putin

It is unknown whether Catherine and Kirill have children. Apparently, the couple still has no heirs, since journalists still managed to find out about the children of the President’s eldest daughter, Maria. Putin currently has two grandchildren - a boy and a girl, who were born to his eldest daughter Masha.

Apparently, Ekaterina and Kirill are not expected to have children, since in 2018 the media began to write that the couple was getting a divorce. Shamalov left his wife for the ex-wife of one of the capital's officials, Zhanna Volkova. On Instagram, the girl posts a photo with her chosen one, where the man’s face is not visible, but journalists have already determined that it is Shamalov.

The personal lives of the children of the country's first person are hidden from prying eyes, but not from Western media holdings. It is from their messages that we can judge that their family life is far from idyllic. Yesterday, the agency, citing its sources, reported that Vladimir Putin’s daughter, head of the Innopraktika foundation Katerina Tikhonova, broke up with a member of the board of the petrochemical company Sibur Kirill Shamalov. When exactly this happened and whether the divorce took place officially, the agency’s interlocutors did not specify. Back in April 2017, Shamalov sold a 20 percent stake in Sibur - the buyer became Leonid Mikhelson, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company. Katerina Tikhonova also lost one of her assets: the alleged divorce coincided with the liquidation of the Interdisciplinary Initiatives in the Field of Natural Sciences and Humanities foundation, which she owned. As previously reported "Ruspres", the foreign agency Reuters also spoke for the first time about Tikhonova’s relationship with Putin.

Kirill Shamalov was born in 1982. In 2015, while still a student, Shamalov got a job at Gazprom to the position of chief legal adviser for legal support of the company’s foreign economic activities. He later graduated from the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University and in 2005 became the leading legal consultant of the legal department Gazprombank. Disillusioned with jurisprudence, Shamalov got a job in the Russian government apparatus in the department of economics and finance - in the department dealing with state property.

In 2008, Shamalov became vice president of the petrochemical company Sibur for administrative business support. He was 26 years old. Since then, Shamalov’s entire career has been connected with "Sibur" .

Like his entire family, Shamalov is originally from St. Petersburg. His father Nikolai is an old acquaintance of Vladimir Putin, with whom he founded a dacha cooperative in the early 1990s "Lake". Nikolay Shamalov owns almost 10% of the bank's shares "Russia", which is under American sanctions due to the fact that it belongs to Putin’s entourage.

As the top manager of Sibur, Kirill Shamalov received a total of 4.3% of the company's shares. In an interview with Kommersant in 2015, Shamalov said that the company’s managers were offered shares or cash bonuses as incentives, and he opted for securities.

Shamalov bought another large stake in Sibur in September 2014 (shortly before he resigned as vice president) from Gennady Timchenko - thus his share increased to 21.3%. Shamalov borrowed money for the deal from Gazprombank, where his brother Yuri worked as a top manager.

According to Reuters, negotiations on the sale of Gennady Timchenko’s share to Kirill Shamalov began shortly after Shamalov married the head of the Innopraktika fund, Katerina Tikhonova, in February 2013. Many media outlets, including Bloomberg and Reuters, as well Oleg Kashin they called her the youngest daughter of Vladimir Putin; Neither Tikhonov nor the Kremlin officially confirms this information.

In April 2017, Shamalov sold shares of Sibur to the main owner of the company, Leonid Mikhelson. Why this was done is officially unknown. As Vedomosti wrote then, Shamalov could earn about $100 million from the deal. After the sale, he was left with 3.9% of Sibur shares, that is, approximately the share that he received as a top manager of the company over the years of work.

In 2015, Putin spoke more about his daughters than ever, albeit in general terms. Both of them studied at Russian universities and speak several languages, the president said. He also noted that they achieve good success at work, do not get involved in business or politics, and “do not interfere anywhere.” That same year, Tikhonova and Shamalov were at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the RBC newspaper reported.

There is a 2013 video of Tikhonova performing the dance, viewed more than 1.3 million times, on YouTube. She is also known to help run an organization based on Moscow State University, whose trustees include representatives of Gazprombank, Sibur and several companies directly controlled by the state.

Less is known about Maria, who, according to media reports, is engaged in endocrinology research in Moscow and is married to a Dutchman. For example, the Russian public was not aware of the couple's birth until Putin told Hollywood director Oliver Stone in a series of interviews last year that he had become a grandfather.

Presidential account

As for Shamalov, even if he is not directly connected to the Kremlin, he may still be at risk of sanctions from the United States.

His father, Nikolai Shamalov, was subject to sanctions by the European Union related to the conflict in Ukraine, which classified him as a member of an “influential group” in Putin’s entourage. Shamalov Sr. is a shareholder of AB Russia JSC, which was the first Russian company to fall under US restrictions. Timchenko, who was under sanctions when he sold a stake in Sibur to Kirill Shamalov, is also a co-owner of the St. Petersburg bank.

However, any sanctions from the United States that may threaten Shamalov Jr., a graduate of the same law school at St. Petersburg University as Putin, will most likely only strengthen his position in Russia. After Bank Rossiya was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department as the “personal bank” of high-ranking government officials, Putin ordered an account to be opened in his name and the presidential salary transferred to it.

Tatler.ru

The media named the probable reason for the breakdown of the family relationship between billionaire Kirill Shamalov and Katerina Tikhonova, whom international news agencies openly call the daughter of Vladimir Putin. According to the latest information, Shamalov left her for the glamorous socialite Zhanna Volkova.

As a Znak.com correspondent reports, this was indicated by the Open Media telegram channel. Finding evidence of this fact is not difficult - Zhanna posted joint photographs on social networks with a mysterious gentleman similar to Shamalov. Some of them were published by Tatler.ru and Gubdaily.ru (now it’s difficult to find pictures of Volkova and Shamalov. - Znak.com). Zhanna's photographs were selected very carefully. The man's full face is not visible.

According to Tatler, during the Christmas holidays, Zhanna and her twin sister Diana Dementieva were seen in St. Moritz, at the Badrutts’ Palace hotel in the company of friends. Kirill was not among them. But other sources close to the couple claim that he has already persuaded Zhanna to return to Moscow from London and the wedding is just around the corner.

Vilkova was married to tennis player and fashionista Sergei Volkov, who under Vladimir Resin oversaw financial policy in the capital's Construction Complex. The couple got married in 2004, the wedding took place in the Noble Nest restaurant. When Volkov started having problems in his service, he and his wife and son left for Monaco. A few years later the couple broke up. Volkov returned to Moscow, and Zhanna and her sister went to England.

Tatler.ru previously published a remarkable article, saying that the gossip column twins Zhanna and Diana often practiced double dressing and noticed that there was a karmic connection between them: once, while in different places, they fainted at the same time.

Bloomberg reported Shamalov’s separation from Tikhonova on January 25, citing several knowledgeable sources. All the agency’s interlocutors, for obvious reasons, preferred to remain anonymous. Exactly when the spouses separated and whether the divorce was officially filed is not specified. No one is giving any official confirmation or, conversely, refutation of the separation of Shamalov and Tikhonova.

At the same time, it was indicated that the breakup was related to the sale of shares in the petrochemical company Sibur, which belonged to Shamalov. The deal took place in April 2017. The new owner of Shamalov’s share was billionaire Leonid Mikhelson, chairman of the board of directors of Sibur. Shamalov did not earn anything from the deal, since the shares were sold to him as a sign of trust on the part of Vladimir Putin's family, Bloomberg sources say. One of the agency’s sources, however, assured that there is no connection between the sale of Sibur shares and Shamalov’s divorce from Tikhonova. It’s just that investing in these securities turned out to be not very profitable, Bloomberg’s interlocutor explained.

Kirill Shamalov is the son of the co-owner of Rossiya Bank. In 2016, he took 74th place in the list of the richest people in Russia according to Forbes magazine. The publication then estimated his fortune at $1.3 billion.

Reuters and Boomberg previously wrote that Katerina Tikhonova is Putin’s youngest daughter. As stated, the girl bears her last name in honor of her maternal great-grandfather - Katerina’s grandmother’s name was Ekaterina Tikhonovna Shkrebneva.

According to Reuters, the wedding of Shamalov and Tikhonova took place at the Igora resort in the Leningrad region in February 2013. The newlyweds arrived there on a sleigh drawn by three white horses. Resort staff and wedding guests were prohibited from talking about it.

Let us remember that Vladimir Putin also went through a divorce. On June 6, 2013, in an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel, he and Lyudmila Putin announced that they had decided to separate. According to the ex-spouses, they maintained a good relationship. Later, information appeared about Lyudmila Alexandrovna’s new marriage: she allegedly married businessman Arthur Ocheretny and took his last name.

Kirill Shamalov left Vladimir Putin’s family, returned his dowry and went to the socialite Zhanna Volkova.

The personal life of the children of the country's first person is hidden from prying eyes, but not from Western media holdings. It is from their messages that we can judge that their family life is far from idyllic. Yesterday, Bloomberg, citing its sources, reported that Vladimir Putin’s daughter, head of the Innopraktika fund Katerina Tikhonova, broke up with Kirill Shamalov, a member of the board of the petrochemical company Sibur. When exactly this happened and whether the divorce took place officially, the agency’s interlocutors did not specify. Back in April 2017, Shamalov sold a 20 percent stake in Sibur; the buyer was Leonid Mikhelson, chairman of the company’s board of directors. Katerina Tikhonova also lost one of her assets: the alleged divorce coincided with the liquidation of the Interdisciplinary Initiatives in the Field of Natural Sciences and Humanities foundation, which she owned. As Ruspres previously reported, the foreign agency Reuters also reported for the first time about Tikhonova’s relationship with Putin.

Kirill Shamalov was born in 1982. In 2015, while still a student, Shamalov got a job at Gazprom as chief legal adviser for legal support of the company’s foreign economic activities. He later graduated from the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University and in 2005 became the leading legal adviser in the legal department of Gazprombank. Disillusioned with jurisprudence, Shamalov got a job in the Russian government apparatus in the department of economics and finance - in the department dealing with state property.

In 2008, Shamalov became vice president of the petrochemical company Sibur for administrative business support. He was 26 years old. Since then, Shamalov’s entire career has been connected with Sibur.

Like his entire family, Shamalov is originally from St. Petersburg. His father Nikolai is an old acquaintance of Vladimir Putin, with whom he founded the Ozero dacha cooperative in the early 1990s. Nikolai Shamalov owns almost 10% of the shares of Rossiya Bank, which is under American sanctions due to the fact that it belongs to Putin’s entourage.

The career of Nikolai Shamalov’s other son, Yuri, is connected with the same companies in which his younger brother Kirill worked. Since the early 2000s, Yuri has been a member of the board of directors of Sibur and held senior positions in Gazprom and Gazprombank. He was the chairman of the Gazfond fund, which in 2008 was listed as the owner of Sibur. In 2010, Sibur was transferred to billionaires Gennady Timchenko and Leonid Mikhelson, and a loan for the purchase was provided to them by Gazprombank, which also owned a stake in the petrochemical company. Timchenko has been a close friend of Putin since the early 1990s, who fell under international sanctions due to his closeness to the Russian president; Mikhelson is one of the richest entrepreneurs in Russia; he has been collaborating with Timchenko for a long time.

As the top manager of Sibur, Kirill Shamalov received a total of 4.3% of the company's shares. In an interview with Kommersant in 2015, Shamalov said that the company’s managers were offered shares or cash bonuses as incentives, and he opted for securities.

Shamalov bought another large stake in Sibur in September 2014 (shortly before he resigned as vice president) from Gennady Timchenko - thus his share increased to 21.3%. Shamalov borrowed money for the deal from Gazprombank, where his brother Yuri worked as a top manager.

According to Reuters, negotiations on the sale of Gennady Timchenko’s share to Kirill Shamalov began shortly after Shamalov married the head of the Innopraktika fund, Katerina Tikhonova, in February 2013. Many media outlets, including Bloomberg and Reuters, as well as Oleg Kashin, called her the youngest daughter of Vladimir Putin; Neither Tikhonov nor the Kremlin officially confirms this information.

In April 2017, Shamalov sold shares of Sibur to the main owner of the company, Leonid Mikhelson. Why this was done is officially unknown. As Vedomosti wrote then, Shamalov could earn about $100 million from the deal. After the sale, he was left with 3.9% of Sibur shares, that is, approximately the share that he received as a top manager of the company over the years of work.

On January 25, 2018, Bloomberg found an explanation for the unexpected sale of shares. According to the publication’s sources, Shamalov received a large block of shares in Sibur at one time as a guarantee of trust from Vladimir Putin’s entourage. After breaking up with Katerina Tikhonova, he got rid of the shares and, according to the publication’s sources, did not earn anything from it. Another anonymous source close to Shamalov refutes this version: according to his information, the purchase of shares from Gennady Timchenko was simply a bad investment from which it was not possible to earn anything.

Shamalov’s fortune, even after the loss of a large stake in Sibur, is $800 million. In 2016, Kirill Shamalov was included in the ranking of the richest people in Russia according to Forbes. The publication estimated his fortune at $1.3 billion and placed him in 74th place in the ranking of the richest Russians, Meduza recalls.

According to the Ruspres agency, the wedding of Shamalov and Tikhonova was celebrated in February 2013 at the Igora ski resort, co-owned by the family of Yuri Kovalchuk. In total, according to the agency, one hundred people attended the ceremony. The entire ceremony took place in an atmosphere of secrecy: the resort staff were forbidden to mention it, and mobile phones were taken away from guests of the event.

What do we know about Kirill Shamalov’s new girlfriend

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Today Bloomberg published news that Katerina Tikhonova, who is called the daughter of Vladimir Putin, broke up with businessman Kirill Shamalov. And this may explain the fact that in April, Kirill also parted with his seventeen percent of Sibur shares (the main owner of the company, Leonid Mikhelson, became the new owner of the shares). At the same time, information appeared in the Open Media telegram channel that Kirill was now dating Zhanna Volkova. Finding evidence of this fact is not so difficult - Zhanna has several photos together on her open Facebook page.

According to Tatler, during the Christmas holidays, Zhanna and her twin sister Diana Dementieva were seen in St. Moritz, at the Badrutts’ Palace hotel in the company of friends. Kirill was not among them. But other sources close to the couple claim that he has already persuaded Zhanna to return to Moscow from London and the wedding is just around the corner.

Ten years ago, at the dawn of Tatler, in Russia, the regular gossip column twins Zhanna and Diana actively appeared on our pages. For fun, they often practiced double dressing and said that there was a truly karmic connection between them: once, while in different places, they fainted at the same time.

Zhanna was married to a two-meter handsome man, tennis player, fashionista in a Burberry trench coat, Sergei Volkov, who, under the wise Vladimir Resin, oversaw financial policy in the capital's Construction Complex. The couple got married in 2004, the wedding took place in the Noble Nest restaurant. The bride shone in a Vivienne Westwood dress, the groom wore a suit from his friend, former Givenchy designer Oswald Boateng. After the celebration, the couple placed their wedding dresses in glass display cases. Zhanna once had the imprudence to demonstrate their contents on the pages of Vogue magazine, which caused some dissatisfaction with Sergei’s boss.

When Volkov began having more serious problems in his service, he and his wife and son hastily left for Monaco. But the local climate turned out to be disastrous for this union. A few years later the couple broke up. Sergei returned to Moscow, and Zhanna and her sister went to Foggy Albion. Where, apparently, a far from vague future awaited her.

Kirill Shamalov

Zhanna Volkova

Zhanna Volkova with her sister Diana Dementieva

Photo from Facebook of Zhanna Volkova

Changes in Putin's family provide a glimpse inside Russia Inc

(Bloomberg) -- During his marriage and preparation for it, Kirill Shamalov became one of the richest people in the Russian Federation, not without the help of his father-in-law’s closest associates: President Vladimir Putin.

But according to four sources familiar with the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity, Shamalov's union with Putin's youngest daughter Katerina Tikhonova has already collapsed. The son of Putin’s longtime friend returned to one of the high positions in the same PJSC Sibur Holding, where he owned a stake worth several billion dollars, which coincided with his status as a member of Putin’s family.

The change in Shamalov's position gives an idea of ​​the complex web of family, friendship and financial ties in the president's inner circle. How and on what basis benefits are distributed under Putin is the subject of close study by the United States, which is looking for new candidates to be included in sanctions lists for alleged Russian interference in the 2016 elections.

Shamalov's path to owning a large stake in a petrochemical company began in 2012, around the time he was preparing to get married. Leonid Mikhelson and Gennady Timchenko, the main owners of Sibur, promoted the vice president for administrative business support to deputy chairman of the board, and subsequently gave him 4.3 percent of the company's shares as remuneration. In 2014, with the help of a loan from Gazprombank JSC, Shamalov, who was then 32 years old, bought another 17 percent of the shares from Timchenko for about $2.2 billion.

In April last year, Sibur announced the sale by Shamalov of shares acquired from Timchenko to Mikhelson. The details and motives of the transaction were not disclosed, but a source familiar with its terms said that Shamalov did not gain anything from the sale, since he held the papers in a kind of trust as a member of the Putin family. That privilege ended when the relationship ended, three of the sources said.

It is precisely this kind of connection that is being increasingly studied by the Department of the Treasury and other US departments, where by January 29 a list of “oligarchs” must be submitted against whom sanctions measures may be introduced in the future. Representatives of the Russian elite are increasingly worried about the prospect of the US blacklist extending to their children, which will complicate their lives for many years.

A source close to Shamalov denied the connection between Sibur’s transactions and his marital status. The initial 4.3 percent stake was received by Shamalov as part of a stock incentive program for the company's top managers, and the purchase of the stake from Timchenko was a joint investment by Shamalov's son and father, the source said on condition of anonymity. The Shamalovs barely returned their investment because the deal did not live up to their expectations, the source said.

Shamalov declined to comment through his representative. Tikhonova's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov, Gazprombank and Mikhelson. The press service of Sibur reported that Shamalov gradually moved up the career ladder in the company and received shares as part of an option program, the decision on which was made by shareholders taking into account the area of ​​responsibility of managers. Timchenko's representative said that the stake was sold to Shamalov at the market price. It was not possible to contact Shamalov's father.

The separation from the Putin family was not a total loss for Shamalov, whose net worth is estimated at about $800 million, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires index, and whose main asset is his remaining 3.9 percent stake in Sibur, valued at about $504 million.

The estimate does not take into account interest that Shamalov may have paid on the Gazprombank loan or changes in marital status. According to Russian laws, former spouses are entitled to half of all property acquired during the marriage, if a marriage contract was not signed.

The Kremlin so diligently protects the Putin family’s right to privacy that none of the officials with whom the authors of the article contacted even informally agreed to say whether Tikhonova’s divorce was official or the date of her wedding.

The media in the Russian Federation practically do not write about his daughters, 31-year-old Katerina and 32-year-old Maria, so their lives are mostly shrouded in mystery. Even their maiden names were different.

Oliver Stone

Putin, who has ruled Russia for 18 years and is preparing to run for office again in March, rarely speaks publicly about his family, citing security reasons. He informed a television journalist about his own divorce in 2013 after a ballet in the Kremlin Palace, which he attended with his ex-wife Lyudmila.

In 2015, Putin spoke more about his daughters than ever, albeit in general terms. Both of them studied at Russian universities and speak several languages, the president said. He also noted that they achieve good success at work, do not get involved in business or politics, and “do not interfere anywhere.” That same year, Tikhonova and Shamalov were at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the RBC newspaper reported.

There is a 2013 video of Tikhonova performing the dance, viewed more than 1.3 million times, on YouTube. It is also known that she helps manage an organization operating on the basis of Moscow State University, whose trustees include representatives of Gazprombank, Sibur and several companies directly controlled by the state.

Less is known about Maria, who, according to media reports, is engaged in endocrinology research in Moscow and is married to a Dutchman. For example, the Russian public was not aware of the couple's birth until Putin told Hollywood director Oliver Stone in a series of interviews last year that he had become a grandfather.

Presidential account

As for Shamalov, even if he is not directly connected to the Kremlin, he may still be at risk of sanctions from the United States.

His father, Nikolai Shamalov, was subject to sanctions by the European Union related to the conflict in Ukraine, which classified him as a member of an “influential group” in Putin’s entourage. Shamalov Sr. is a shareholder of AB Russia JSC, which was the first Russian company to fall under US restrictions. Timchenko, who was under sanctions when he sold a stake in Sibur to Kirill Shamalov, is also a co-owner of the St. Petersburg bank.

However, any sanctions from the United States that may threaten Shamalov Jr., a graduate of the same law school at St. Petersburg University as Putin, will most likely only strengthen his position in Russia. After Bank Rossiya was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department as the “personal bank” of high-ranking government officials, Putin ordered an account to be opened in his name and the presidential salary transferred to it.

​Katerina Tikhonova, whom international news agencies openly call Vladimir Putin’s daughter, separated from her husband. The 31-year-old young woman broke off her relationship with her billionaire husband Kirill Shamalov, four knowledgeable sources confirmed to Bloomberg. All the agency’s interlocutors, for obvious reasons, preferred to remain anonymous.

Let us recall that Kirill Shamalov is the son of the co-owner of Rossiya Bank Nikolai Shamalov. Shamalov Sr. is called a close acquaintance of Putin. In 2016, Kirill Shamalov unexpectedly took 74th place in the list of the richest people in Russia according to Forbes magazine. The publication then estimated his fortune at $1.3 billion. As the Anews portal writes, when exactly the spouses separated and whether the divorce was formalized, Bloomberg’s interlocutors did not specify.

According to three knowledgeable people with whom Bloomberg correspondents spoke, the breakup is related to the sale of shares in the petrochemical company Sibur, which belonged to Shamalov (the young businessman became their owner in 2014). The deal took place in April 2017. The new owner of Shamalov’s share was billionaire Leonid Mikhelson, chairman of the board of directors of Sibur. Shamalov did not earn anything from the deal, since the shares were sold to him as a sign of trust on the part of Vladimir Putin's family, Bloomberg sources say.

One of the agency’s sources, however, assured that there is no connection between the sale of Sibur shares and Shamalov’s divorce from Tikhonova. It’s just that investing in these securities turned out to be not very profitable, Bloomberg’s interlocutor explained. The fact that Katerina Tikhonova is Putin’s youngest daughter was previously written by Reuters and Boomberg. As stated, the girl bears the surname in honor of her maternal great-grandfather - Katerina’s grandmother’s name was Ekaterina Tikhonovna Shkrebneva.

Recently, Zhanna Volkova posted several photographs on her Facebook in which she covered a man’s face. According to media reports, this is Shamalov. They write that he has already persuaded Zhanna to return to Moscow from London and the wedding is just around the corner.

At the end of 2017, Manfred Mohab, vice-president of the World Rock and Roll Confederation for legal issues, publicly stated that Tikhonova is Putin’s daughter. Katerina Tikhonova herself is successfully involved in acrobatic rock and roll, and in this sport, as they say, her family ties are no secret to anyone. Katerina Tikhonova does not only dance. She heads the National Intellectual Development Foundation (Innopraktika), which is engaged in scientific research in the field of natural and technical sciences. The Foundation is participating in the creation of the scientific and technological valley of Moscow State University.

Let us remember that Vladimir Putin himself also went through a divorce not so long ago. On June 6, 2013, in an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel, Vladimir and Lyudmila Putin announced that they had decided to separate. According to the ex-spouses, they maintained a good relationship. Later, information appeared about Lyudmila Alexandrovna’s new marriage: she married businessman Arthur Ocheretny and took his last name.