![]() ![]() But in 2010, a Russian news outlet, New Times, reported that Jorrit Faassen, then an official at a Russian consultancy firm, received a beating from the bodyguards of Matvey Urin, a top Russian banker who did not know who he was dealing with, after a road rage episode in Moscow. ![]() Neither Casper Faassen nor many others in the family knew the true identity of the woman who went as Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova, and now Maria Faassen, but Masha to her father. “It was a wedding party,” recalled Danny Plezier, a local singer of Dutch folk songs who performed at the affair. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)Īll of that anger and anxiety was far removed from the revelry at a party celebrating the couple in 2008 in Wassenaar, perhaps the most exclusive and wealthy area in all the Netherlands. A Ukrainian flag on land that belongs to Jorrit Faassen, the former husband of Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova, as Vladimir Putin’s oldest daughter is known, near Amsterdam, April 1, 2022. ![]() In the 15 years since Vorontsova secretly began living with Faassen in the Netherlands, she had at times become the focus of local ire against her authoritarian father. What at first seemed an unlikely place for an appeal - and an unlikely person to appeal to - made more sense when one understood that the land had recently been bought by Jorrit Faassen, a Dutch man who was once married to and has at least one child with Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova, as Putin’s eldest daughter is known. ![]() But as we all know, fathers and daughters are a different story,” and, “We beg you, Maria.” Near Ukrainian flags planted in the middle of a heart made of candles, a sign addressed to “Ave Maria Putin” read: “It seems your old man is hard to reach and clearly impossible to stop even by his hangmen. On a grassy plot of land on the outskirts of Amsterdam, protesters recently sent a message to Putin through his daughter Maria. Sanctions experts say those measures were less meant to do Putin concrete financial harm than to send him a message that his aggression had crossed a line, and that his invisible and untouchable private world could be seen and reached by the West. The US government also nearly placed sanctions on Kabaeva, but pulled back at the last moment to avoid, for now, an escalation, officials said. In April, the United States aimed into the fog and imposed sanctions on his two daughters, citing them as family members of a penalized person - Putin - and asserting their support for the Russian defense industry and reception of billions of dollars of funds directly overseen by Putin. Demonstrators gather around an effigy of the Russian President Vladimir Putin with the letter Z, which has become a symbol of the Russian military, during an anti-war action in Tbilisi, Georgia. For decades, few succeeded in penetrating the opaque protective bubble built around them and their resources, but Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has changed that. Members of Putin’s family circle are beneficiaries of a kleptocratic system that Putin rules over like a mafia don. Some things do seem clear enough, though. And that’s sort of the fog of Putin,” said Nina Khrushcheva, a Moscow-born professor of international affairs at the New School in New York. All of them can be true or none of them can be true. In many cases, they are apparitions, and as in many ghost stories, the phantoms can seem conjured for a desired effect, either by critics to undercut Putin’s self-made image as a protector of family values or by supporters to compound the image of Putin’s wealth, virility and mysteriousness. The supposed children are unverified and invisible. In Lugano, locals whisper about the green glass building that Kabaeva lived in overlooking the lake and speak with confidence about the hospital where her rumoured children were born. In the villa-dotted Russian enclaves of Switzerland, a petition began circulating in March demanding the repatriation of his supposed paramour, Kabaeva, angrily comparing her with Hitler’s mistress, Eva Braun. File photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Alina Kabaeva Yet even his acknowledged daughters, now approaching middle age, are so hidden as to be unrecognisable on a Moscow street. He has two officially recognised daughters from his first marriage, but according to independent Russian news outlets and unverified international news reports, he may have four more children with two other women. ![]()
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