{"id":22121,"date":"2022-05-20T07:23:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T07:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=22121"},"modified":"2022-05-20T07:23:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T07:23:03","slug":"putins-daughter-flew-to-munich-more-than-50-times-in-two-years-leaks-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/05\/20\/putins-daughter-flew-to-munich-more-than-50-times-in-two-years-leaks-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin\u2019s daughter flew to Munich \u2018more than 50 times\u2019 in two years, leaks reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since the start of his military campaign against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has\u00a0railed<\/a>\u00a0aggressively against pro-western Russians, whose appetite for European cuisine and climates meant \u201ctheir mentality is there, not here, with our people\u201d.<\/p>\n

Yet his own daughter\u2019s enthusiasm for sojourns to western Europe at least matches that of the oligarch \u201cscum and traitors\u201d he has decried, a\u00a0joint investigation<\/a>\u00a0by independent Russian media outlet iStories and German magazine Der Spiegel suggests.<\/p>\n

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According to flight records obtained by the two publications, Putin\u2019s youngest daughter, Katerina Tikhonova, flew to Munich in southern\u00a0Germany<\/a>\u00a0\u201cmore than 50 times\u201d between 2017 and 2019, travelling on chartered flights with full state support and in the company of employees of Putin\u2019s own presidential security service.<\/p>\n

Among the leaked cache of documents relating to a series of flights between Moscow and Munich in spring 2020 are the passports of a then two-year-old girl \u2013 apparently a previously unknown granddaughter of the Russian president \u2013 and Igor Zelensky, the former director of the Munich state ballet. The report said it is likely that Zelensky is Tikhonova\u2019s partner and the father of her child.<\/p>\n

Unrelated to the Ukrainian president of the same surname, 52-year-old Igor Zelensky was an internationally feted dancer before he became artistic director of the Bayerisches Staatsballet in 2016. He stepped down from his role on 4 April citing \u201cprivate family reasons\u201d, having failed to react to calls to condemn Putin\u2019s war of aggression in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Zelensky still has a job on the supervisory board of Russia\u2019s National Cultural Heritage Foundation, which is building a cultural centre in Crimea and is understood to be close to Putin.<\/p>\n

An anonymous source at the Bavarian state ballet told Der Spiegel that Zelensky was \u201cmost likely a partner of Putin\u2019s daughter\u201d, before journalists had specifically asked about his family ties.<\/p>\n

Tikhonova, 35, herself a former acrobatic rock\u2019n\u2019roll dancer, was previously married to Kirill Shamalov, once Russia\u2019s youngest billionaire, though the couple were reported as having separated in 2018.<\/p>\n

While iStories and Der Spiegel did not disclose the name of the 2017-born child, the outlets wrote that the girl\u2019s patronymic was Igorevna, which would correspond to former ballet director Igor Zelensky.<\/p>\n

Tikhonova did not respond to a request by Der Spiegel. Her and Zelensky\u2019s current whereabouts are unknown.
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Since the start of his military campaign against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has\u00a0railed\u00a0aggressively against pro-western Russians, whose appetite for European cuisine and climates meant \u201ctheir mentality is there, not here, with our people\u201d. Yet his own daughter\u2019s enthusiasm for sojourns to western Europe at least matches that of the oligarch \u201cscum and traitors\u201d he has decried, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5722,10232,5717,10387,9214,6623,2808,6621,9505,5455,11355,66,10197,6656,9765,9349,5572,5340,6657,12187,9266,3805,11377,71,6978,3457,5217,3852,5655,9176,5180,5555,694,5251,2472],"class_list":["post-22121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-anonymous","tag-bavarian","tag-billionaire","tag-campaign","tag-child","tag-crimea","tag-daughter","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-family","tag-flight","tag-germany","tag-investigation","tag-kirill-shamalov","tag-leaked","tag-married","tag-military","tag-moscow","tag-munich","tag-n","tag-oligarch","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-putin","tag-rock","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-russians","tag-security","tag-spring","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war","tag-zelensky"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}