Vladimir Putin Biography – Russian President, Wife, Daughters And Net Worth
Age
Putin was born on the 7th of October 1952. He is 69 years old.
Career
Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia.
He took office in 2012 and was formerly the Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012.
Putin won the 2018 presidential election with more than 76% of the vote. His fourth term began on 7 May 2018 and will last until 2024. On the same day, Putin invited Dmitry Medvedev to form a new government
The 67-year-old head of state was once a KGB spy.
Russia has become one of the new epicenters of the coronavirus pandemic with 795,038 cases – fourth highest in the world behind the US, Brazil, and India.
Wife
Putin was formerly married to Lyudmila Ocheretnaya, from whom he divorced in 2014.
The two were married for 31 years before they separated.
The ex-couple made their divorce public on Russian state television after attending a ballet performance.
“It was a joint decision: we hardly see each other, each of us has our own life,” Putin said at the time.
“I am very grateful to Vladimir… that he still supports me. And the children, he really cares for them and the children feel this,” his former wife added.
Children
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has two daughters whom he keeps out of the spotlight.
His eldest daughter Mariya Vorontsova is 35, and his other daughter, Yekaterina Tikhonova is 33.
Over his long political career, Putin has always kept his children, now in their 30s, out of the limelight, never permitting them to be seen and rarely even speaking about them.
Unseen pictures of Putin’s daughters as teenagers have recently emerged from the private collection of an estranged friend.
They were released as part of a $15milllion legal case brought against the Russian state by former Putin confident Sergei Pugachev, 57.
The Russian state lost this week in a Paris arbitration court.
Today Mariya, who uses the surname Vorontsova, has a career in medical research and is an expert on dwarfism, according to reports.
She is believed to be married to a Dutch businessman with whom she has a family, making Putin a grandfather.
Yekaterina, 33, known by the family name of her maternal grandmother, Tikhonova, has gone from being a high-kicking ‘rock’n’roll’ dancer to spearheading a major new Russian artificial intelligence initiative.
She was formerly married to Russia’s youngest billionaire, Kirill Shamalov, 38, though is now divorced.
Net Worth
Putin is reportedly one of the world’s richest leaders, though there is no firm evidence of his actual wealth, and sanctions would put the president’s assets at risk.
Browder calculated in 2017 that Putin was worth $200 billion, which would have made him the richest person in the world at the time