Der Spiegel reports that during a trip by Tikhonova to Germany, the travel documents of SBP people raised suspicions and surveillance began on Putin’s daughter and her entourage
Katerina Tikhonova, who is called the youngest daughter of the Russian president Vladimir Putin, for about five years she flew to Germany for her appointments, which she booked in spa hotels as well as in Alpine resorts, accompanied by a team of bodyguards from the Presidential Security Service (SBP). This revelation is made by the Russian investigative journalism website Baznie istorii (in the report entitled ‘The life of the Putin family abroad – corruption, ballet and an army of secret service guards’) and the magazine Der Spiegel, who obtained access to the archive of documents her partner SBP.
In total, according to the journalists’ data, from January 2016 to January 2021, the bodyguards accompanying Tikhonova booked a hotel room almost 100 times. Hotels were booked thirty times in Russia, more than 40 times in Germany, while there were other popular destinations in Austria and Italy.
As the two media write, “in total” Tikhonova was accompanied to Munich by 12 officers of the Russian secret services.
In the documents made available to journalists, there is no evidence of who was paying for her trips Tikhonova and her bodyguards. However the website Baznie istoriiconsiders that these expenses were paid from state funds.
According to Der Spiegel’s sources, during one of Putin’s daughter’s numerous trips to Germany, the travel documents of SBP people raised suspicions and Putin’s daughter and her entourage began to be monitored.
The website Baznie istorii writes that in Munich the bodyguards of the SBP most often stayed at the Hotel an Der Oper. Across the street from the hotel is the Bavarian Ballet, whose artistic director was Russian dancer Igor Zelensky from 2016 to 2022.
The journalists of the two media claim that the Zelensky he is the father of Tikhonova’s child, her daughter who was born in 2017 as her patronymic is “Igorevna”. Putin’s supposed daughter in 2017 began to regularly visit Munich, while two years later she generally moved to Bavaria, as the Baznie istorii website and Der Spiegel magazine discovered.
The appointment
The website Baznie istorii, referring to Tikhonova’s meeting with Zelensky in April 2018, writes: “The special mission for which the ten presidential security guards arrived from Moscow to Munich in April 2018 was to arrange a meeting for Tikhonova with Zelensky. At the same time as the SBP officers arrived in the Bavarian capital, a luxury jet with flight number LX-SIX arrived. The plane was carrying Tikhonova and her daughter. After spending a month in Munich, Vladimir Putin’s daughter and granddaughter returned to Moscow on the same plane. Then followed the crowd of security guards who returned to Russia.”
Commenting on the number of agents accompanying Tikhonova and Zelensky, the website Baznie istorii writes that “such a number was obviously necessary to protect Tikhonova and Zelensky from the harmful influence of Western values, with which Kremlin officials already they have been scaring Russian citizens for years.”
“In the West, they deliberately blur such basic concepts as family, mother, father, man and woman… In the social field, neoliberalism cultivates individualism, selfishness, the worship of pleasure, unrestrained consumerism, it absolutizes the freedom of any of self-expression”, with these words the general secretary of the Security Council of Russia, Nikolai Patrushev, blasted the Western way of life. After the start of the war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin called Russians who adopt Western values, ethnic traitors. “Many of these people, in fact, mentally are right there (in the West), and not here with our people, not with Russia,” Putin said.
As for the luxury jet that carried Tikhonova’s daughter, this aircraft has an interesting history, writes the website Baznie istorii. “It originally belonged to Vladimir Putin’s old friend and one of the main Russian oil exporters Gennady Timchenko. As the newspaper Vedomosti wrote, Timchenko bought this aircraft ‘especially to please the Russian president’: the speed of the aircraft approaches the speed of sound. This and other aircraft carried not only Putin’s family, but also Putin himself and his descendants. “On separate occasions, when Putin missed his labrador, Connie, on a long trip, she was brought to him on this plane,” Vedomosti newspaper wrote.
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