As Vladimir Putin’s forces suffer embarrassing obstacles in Ukraine, the name of his child’s partner may rub salt in the injuries.
Katerina Tikhonova, 35, remains in a relationship with Russian ballet dancer Igor Zelensky, a brand-new examination has actually exposed.
Sanctions versus her have actually stopped her flying from Moscow to Munich to be with her male, who has the very same surname as Ukrainian president VoloydmyrZelensky
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Her partner, with whom she has a two-year-old child, is a prima ballerina and more just recently a leading director who up until just recently led the Bavarian StateBallet
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The discovery originates from an examination by Russian independent news outlet ISt ories and Germany’s Der Spiegel.
Previously Tikhonova, an acrobatic dancer turned researcher and businesswoman, was wed to Russia’s youngest billionaire Kirill Shamalov, 40.
They split around 2017 when she began a relationship with Zelensky, 52, who was wed with 2 children and a kid to choreographer Yana Serebryakova.
Putin has actually raved versus Russians who live their lives in the West– yet his own child was making regular journeys to Munich with complete state assistance and security to hang around with her partner.
Until the intrusion of Ukraine was released previously this year, it appears she was dealing with him in Germany
‘For two years, from 2017 to 2019, the little girl’ s mom needed to fly this path– from Moscow to Munich and back– numerous lots of times,’ ISt ories’ report stated.
The journalistic examination discovered files showing flights including ‘Tikhonova, Zelensky, a child, nannies, security guards’.
It exposed that over a 2 year duration she flew to Munich ‘more than 50 times’ to be with Zelensky.
He is referred to as among Russia’s most effective ballet dancers– looking in St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre and the New York City BalletCompany He was likewise a visitor musician in London’s Royal Ballet.
An confidential source offered files, e-mails and passport information from Putin’s security service and Tikhonova’s individual guard Alexei Skripchak, who was stated to have actually purchased the household airplane tickets.
Zelensky, who is Russian born with Georgian roots, is not thought to be associated with the Ukrainian president.
He gave up the Bavarian State Ballet last month, obviously after declining to condemn Putin’s bloody war in Ukraine.
When inquired about his previous head, a source at the business informed Der Spiegel instantly responded that Zelensky was ‘most likely the partner of Putin’ s child’.
By completion of 2019, Tikhonova obviously got tired of continuously flying to Munich and chose to relocate with her partner, the report states.
This seems shown by a letter kept in an archive of Skripchak, detectives include.
In 2016, prior to presuming his post in Munich, and prior to his relationship with Putin’s child, Zelensky talked about the fallout of Russia’s addition of Crimea.
‘I am not a politician, but they should sit down at the same table and calm down. Art will save the world,’ he stated.
There have actually been long rumours that he had high level clients in Moscow, however today’s discovery is the very first time he has actually been related to Putin’s household.
In March, after releasing his intrusion of Ukraine, the Russian president struck out at his fellow citizens who took pleasure in life in theWest
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‘I do not condemn those who have a villa in Miami or on the French Riviera, who cannot do without foie gras, oysters or so-called gender freedoms,’ he stated.
‘The problem is absolutely not in this, but in the fact that many of these people, by their very nature, are mentally there, not here, not with our people, not with Russia.’
The handling director of the Bavarian State Opera Serge Dorney informed Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus that Zelensky’s departure from his German ballet was connected to the war.
Evidently believing he was talking to Ukraine’s culture minister, he stated: ‘We talked with him a number of times, and I made him concern the conclusion that he must leave.
‘He did not make this decision on his own. We had a conversation with him, and I brought him to this conclusion.’
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