Opposition Figure Outs Moscow University Employee as 'Putin's Daughter'

Opposition Figure Outs Moscow University Employee as 'Putin's Daughter'

The Moscow Times
January 30, 2015

Ekaterina Tikhonova, believed to be the daughter of Russian president Vladimir Putin

One of Vladimir Putin's main opponents may have broken a taboo by publishing what he says is the pseudonym used by one the Russian president's daughters to stay out of the spotlight. Putin has made his and his family's private life little less than a state secret, keeping his rarely-photographed daughters Yekaterina, 28, and Maria, 29, out of sight and managing his divorce with the minimum fuss.

But opposition blogger Alexei Navalny on Thursday published on his Facebook page an online report which identified a certain Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova as the head of an organization working with Moscow State University. A separate report on Wednesday by RBC, an independent multi-media holding, stated Tikhonova was among those heading a $1.7 billion project to build new University facilities but it did not make any connection between her and Putin.

Navalny wrote on his Facebook page: "RBC (they are cool!) yesterday found Putin's daughter in the Scientific Council of Moscow State University." A source close to Moscow State University, or MGU, confirmed Tikhonova was Putin's daughter, saying on condition of anonymity: "Yes, it is her." Tikhonova could not be reached for comment.

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Assisted by Putin business cronies, Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova heads an organization called Innopraktika which has a $1.7 billion dollar purse to expand facilities at Moscow State University. Most Russians do not even know what Putin's two daughters look like today. They are rarely photographed and photo captions often utilize pseudonyms. Putin's youngest daughter, the 28 year old Yekaterina Putin majored in science. Katerina Tikhonova and dance partner Ivan Klimov took sixth place in at the European championships for acrobatic rock n' roll held in Kaliningrad in 2014. Ekaterina Tikhonovna Shkrebneva is the name of Yekaterina Putin's maternal grandmother. The middle name Vladimirovna denotes her fathers name as Vladimir. Yekaterina more resembles her mother, Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina.

Putin will be pissed. At a bare minimum, Navalny and Russian journalist Oleg Kashin should be expecting a visit by the Russian ФСБ (FSB) security service. Kashin was badly beaten a few years ago for his exposé's.

Simpleχity;1064259647 said:

Opposition Figure Outs Moscow University Employee as 'Putin's Daughter'


Assisted by Putin business cronies, Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova heads an organization called Innopraktika which has a $1.7 billion dollar purse to expand facilities at Moscow State University. Most Russians do not even know what Putin's two daughters look like today. They are rarely photographed and photo captions often utilize pseudonyms. Putin's youngest daughter, the 28 year old Yekaterina Putin majored in science. Katerina Tikhonova and dance partner Ivan Klimov took sixth place in at the European championships for acrobatic rock n' roll held in Kaliningrad in 2014. Ekaterina Tikhonovna Shkrebneva is the name of Yekaterina Putin's maternal grandmother. The middle name Vladimirovna denotes her fathers name as Vladimir. Yekaterina more resembles her mother, Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina.

Putin will be pissed. At a bare minimum, Navalny and Russian journalist Oleg Kashin should be expecting a visit by the Russian ФСБ (FSB) security service. Kashin was badly beaten a few years ago for his exposé's.

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The reporter will be lucky to die a quick and painless death.

joG said:

The reporter will be lucky to die a quick and painless death.

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If something happens to those individuals then it will be hard for Putin to deny that the women are his daughters. Because if something bad happens to those individuals it will look like Putin was angry and therefore proving those individuals are right.

jamesrage said:

If something happens to those individuals then it will be hard for Putin to deny that the women are his daughters. Because if something bad happens to those individuals it will look like Putin was angry and therefore proving those individuals are right.

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It would not be the first time a reporter on Putin's nuisance list died parculiar and untimely deaths.

joG said:

It would not be the first time a reporter on Putin's nuisance list died parculiar and untimely deaths.

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Not at all. Perhaps the most infamous was the murder of Anna Politkovskaya

Simpleχity;1064259849 said:

Not at all. Perhaps the most infamous was the murder of Anna Politkovskaya

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I understood the hard ball we all played in the Cold War, though, killing reporters even then was sort of stupid. But trying to do an open society that way is purely moronic.

Simpleχity;1064259647 said:

Opposition Figure Outs Moscow University Employee as 'Putin's Daughter'


Assisted by Putin business cronies, Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova heads an organization called Innopraktika which has a $1.7 billion dollar purse to expand facilities at Moscow State University. Most Russians do not even know what Putin's two daughters look like today. They are rarely photographed and photo captions often utilize pseudonyms. Putin's youngest daughter, the 28 year old Yekaterina Putin majored in science. Katerina Tikhonova and dance partner Ivan Klimov took sixth place in at the European championships for acrobatic rock n' roll held in Kaliningrad in 2014. Ekaterina Tikhonovna Shkrebneva is the name of Yekaterina Putin's maternal grandmother. The middle name Vladimirovna denotes her fathers name as Vladimir. Yekaterina more resembles her mother, Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina.

Putin will be pissed. At a bare minimum, Navalny and Russian journalist Oleg Kashin should be expecting a visit by the Russian ФСБ (FSB) security service. Kashin was badly beaten a few years ago for his exposé's.

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Good thing for Navalny that he's not here in the USA. The MSM would make sure he never published again. The IRS would review and audit his tax returns for the last 20 years, his phones would be tapped , his computers hacked, and rumor, superstitions and outright lies would be publixhed regarding his sex life, antisemitism and lack of patriotic spirit. So I think Putin will probably send him a nasty letter because Navalny's intent is obvious to cause Putin discomfort. Tit for Tat, don't ya' know. By the way, your avatar is an excellent and exact opposite of your political position. Great choice and terrific example of duplicity. It pays to advertise.

jamesrage said:

If something happens to those individuals then it will be hard for Putin to deny that the women are his daughters. Because if something bad happens to those individuals it will look like Putin was angry and therefore proving those individuals are right.

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And if something happens to Putin's daughter? What about that?

That would be terrible, of course.

joG said:

The reporter will be lucky to die a quick and painless death.

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Don't worry. He's already in GULAG.

It's mighty quiet in this thread. Nobody seems to be mentioning the elephant in the room... you know... how Putin is becoming increasingly isolated in both the world and Russia... remember the good old days when Putin owned Obama? :lol:

Hatuey said:

It's mighty quiet in this thread. Nobody seems to be mentioning the elephant in the room... you know... how Putin is becoming increasingly isolated in both the world and Russia... remember the good old days when Putin owned Obama? :lol:

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Putin never 'owned' Obama. Obama through his lies and incompetence made Putin look like a statesman. When you manage to pull that feat off...well...you have REALLY done something.

You arent really laboring under the illusion that Obama is an altogether well loved and respected world leader these days are you?

VanceMack said:

Putin never 'owned' Obama.

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Lol, you REALLY weren't looking at some of the threads in this forum on the matter a few years ago? Hell, that is still the standard line for many on the right. That Putin owns Obama.

You arent really laboring under the illusion that Obama is an altogether well loved and respected world leader these days are you

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Nope - what I am laboring under is the fact that the US hasn't lost 2/3rd of its currency's value, it hasn't been isolated the international community and Obama isn't on TV worried about Cold War policies. Can Putin say the same thing?

Hatuey said:

It's mighty quiet in this thread. Nobody seems to be mentioning the elephant in the room... you know... how Putin is becoming increasingly isolated in both the world and Russia...

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How???

MrFirst said:

How???

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Putin says Russia not isolated over Ukraine, blames West for frosty ties | Reuters

- President Vladimir Putin blamed the West for worsening relations with Russia since the Ukraine crisis and said Moscow would not allow itself to become internationally isolated behind another 'Iron Curtain'.

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Russian Billionaires in

The U.S. has already imposed penalties on state-run companies and members of Putin’s inner circle, including billionaires Gennady Timchenko and Arkady Rotenberg. The latest sanctions, announced a day before the Malaysia Air attack, barred OAO Novatek, a gas producer partly owned by Timchenko, from using U.S. debt markets for new financing with maturities longer than 90 days. Novatek’s London shares fell 8 percent over two days, cutting its market value by almost $3 billion.

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Putin denies he was isolated at G20 summit remembered for Harper’s rebuff | Toronto Star

“We cannot have a major power in this day and age seize the sovereign territory of another country and simply move on as if nothing’s happened. My view is that that kind of action only whets the appetite which is why the world community has to respond strongly and I think it has.”
Harper said the reaction of the Russian government, “which denies its presence in Ukraine even when they have annexed a portion of its territory,” is telling.
“Claiming that, you know, they haven’t done any such thing when we all know they have, of course, tells us that they really are on the defensive. If you were actually proud of what you’d done you would go out and say so.”

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Get out of Russia.

Tikhonova attended the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland) this month. She was accompanied in Davos by Kirill Shamalov who a family acquaintance says is her husband. He is a large shareholder of PAO Sibur Holdings and son of Nikolay Shamalov, a longtime friend of Putin’s from their mafioso days in St. Petersburg. Sibur CEO Dmitry Konov is also a trustee for Tikhonova’s Innopraktika fund.

Other trustees include OAO Rosneft Chief Executive Officer Igor Sechin, OAO Transneft CEO Nikolay Tokarev, and Sergey Chemezov, who runs state technology holding Rostec. These are some of the wealthy oligarchs of Russia who hold an iron grip on the critical businesses that maintain the Putin regime.

Simpleχity;1064260325 said:

Tikhonova attended the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland) this month. She was accompanied in Davos by Kirill Shamalov who a family acquaintance says is her husband. He is a large shareholder of PAO Sibur Holdings and son of Nikolay Shamalov, a longtime friend of Putin’s from their mafioso days in St. Petersburg. Sibur CEO Dmitry Konov is also a trustee for Tikhonova’s Innopraktika fund.

Other trustees include OAO Rosneft Chief Executive Officer Igor Sechin, OAO Transneft CEO Nikolay Tokarev, and Sergey Chemezov, who runs state technology holding Rostec. These are some of the wealthy oligarchs of Russia who hold an iron grip on the critical businesses that maintain the Putin regime.

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If this is true, Putin effectively carries himself as a mafia don and Russia is in fact a mafia state. It's a shame that the Russian people have been saddled with men drunk with power for so long. From the tsars to Lenin and Stalin and now Putin, the Russians just can't seem to catch a break no matter what political or economic system they are under.

Simpleχity;1064260325 said:

Tikhonova attended the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland) this month. She was accompanied in Davos by Kirill Shamalov who a family acquaintance says is her husband. He is a large shareholder of PAO Sibur Holdings and son of Nikolay Shamalov, a longtime friend of Putin’s from their mafioso days in St. Petersburg. Sibur CEO Dmitry Konov is also a trustee for Tikhonova’s Innopraktika fund.

Other trustees include OAO Rosneft Chief Executive Officer Igor Sechin, OAO Transneft CEO Nikolay Tokarev, and Sergey Chemezov, who runs state technology holding Rostec. These are some of the wealthy oligarchs of Russia who hold an iron grip on the critical businesses that maintain the Putin regime.

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I was under the impression that the mafioso and Reserve Banks merged and does that mean Putin is also a partner with David Rockefeller, Soros, Paulsen, Berlusconi, etc?

Hatuey said:

It's mighty quiet in this thread. Nobody seems to be mentioning the elephant in the room... you know... how Putin is becoming increasingly isolated in both the world and Russia... remember the good old days when Putin owned Obama? :lol:

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Food for thought. Putin's allies seem to be China, N. Korea, India, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Brazil, etc., or about half the World's population and 3/4th of the World's resources. He has tremendous approval within Russia and all he needs to do is operate an "austerity" economy for a few years because the World keeps needing Energy and Russia supplies that. He is developing Russia's infrastructure so as not to be overly reliant on Energy sales to support his economy. If you can say categorically that Energy demand is going to drop precipitously in the next decade, then Putin and Russia would be in trouble. Otherwise, Russia will position themselves better both strategically, economically and militarily for a stronger future. At that time the USA debt puss sac my burst with unimaginable consequences. I think the threat of the debt collapse is what drives our International Political policy. A "House of cards" supported by smoke and mirrors with a smattering of MSM generated "confidence" to maintain the "Con Game."

Hatuey said:

Lol, you REALLY weren't looking at some of the threads in this forum on the matter a few years ago? Hell, that is still the standard line for many on the right. That Putin owns Obama.



Nope - what I am laboring under is the fact that the US hasn't lost 2/3rd of its currency's value, it hasn't been isolated the international community and Obama isn't on TV worried about Cold War policies. Can Putin say the same thing?

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No. I know thats a silly tactic employed by Obots...claiming that people that saw how stupid Obama made himself look were somehow actually Putin fans in an attempt to try to take away the focus from...oh yeah...how ****ing STUPID Obama made himself look. Sure...Im certain SOME would actually prefer Putin ove rObama. MOST of us just recognized what a ****head Obama was and how he went out of his way to make Putin look good.

Hatuey said:

If this is true, Putin effectively carries himself as a mafia don and Russia is in fact a mafia state. It's a shame that the Russian people have been saddled with men drunk with power for so long. From the tsars to Lenin and Stalin and now Putin, the Russians just can't seem to catch a break no matter what political or economic system they are under.

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You have to understand the Russian psyche which is a result of Czarist and Soviet rule. Authoritarianism (dependability) is preferred to the chaos of democracy (unpredictability). Russians can cope with a dreary life as long as it is a dependable dreary life. Russians greatly loath and fear unpredictability.

VanceMack said:

No. I know thats a silly tactic employed by Obots...claiming that people that saw how stupid Obama made himself look were somehow actually Putin fans in an attempt to try to take away the focus from...oh yeah...how ****ing STUPID Obama made himself look. Sure...Im certain SOME would actually prefer Putin ove rObama. MOST of us just recognized what a ****head Obama was and how he went out of his way to make Putin look good.

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Lmao, Obama made himself look stupid? Whose country has lost 2/3rds of its currency and been isolated by the G20? How is Putin looking in Syria these days? How is Crimea working out for Putin? Again, if you're going to look at these events through a pinhole, at least try and dissimulate the fact that Putin's grandstanding a few years ago has come at a great loss to Russia. The reality has been that in the long run, Obama's policies and rhetoric towards Putin have shored up support from even guys like Stephen Harper and David Cameron. Now, how Putin looked for about 10 minutes of world history in your subjective view is irrelevant. What is important is how Putin is coming out of this when his term is up. That reality makes your subjective views on how Putin made Obama look irrelevant. Putin is leaving behind a country that is economically crippled, with an unpopular engagement in Crimea, and that is internationally isolated. That's the guy that supposedly made Obama look "stupid"? Lol. Get serious.

DaveFagan said:

And if something happens to Putin's daughter? What about that?

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Then I would imagine that the people that outed her will die as well as their loved ones.

Hatuey said:

Lmao, Obama made himself look stupid? Whose country has lost 2/3rds of its currency and been isolated by the G20? How is Putin looking in Syria these days? How is Crimea working out for Putin? Again, if you're going to look at these events through a pinhole, at least try and dissimulate the fact that Putin's grandstanding a few years ago has come at a great loss to Russia. The reality has been that in the long run, Obama's policies and rhetoric towards Putin have shored up support from even guys like Stephen Harper and David Cameron. Now, how Putin looked for about 10 minutes of world history in your subjective view is irrelevant. What is important is how Putin is coming out of this when his term is up. That reality makes your subjective views on how Putin made Obama look irrelevant. Putin is leaving behind a country that is economically crippled, with an unpopular engagement in Crimea, and that is internationally isolated. That's the guy that supposedly made Obama look "stupid"? Lol. Get serious.

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Putin was ALWAYS an assclown. making yourself look stupid to an assclown by comparison isnt exactly the smartest thing to do. You keep getting hung on your idiotic "you like X because Y is a ****ing moron" thing. You would be better served to stop assigning foolish belief systems just because your 'Y' is such a ****ing loser.

I think Putin would be surprised if he found out he has to come out of something. Of what, actually? Internationally isolated? From whome? From China? From India? From Brazil? From Argentina? From Turkey? From whome Russia is "internationally isolated"? From USA - yes. But this is good thing. You should understand that every Putin's anti-western action will always be supported by people, by population of Russia. I think we should stand off such "partners" and "friends" from the west. Putin deserved respect of Russian people by his whole career in position of president, people trust him. This is not only about economy, this is about all situation in Russia since the late 1990s. And I suppose before repeating Obama's propaganda slogans some people should think. Obama was so annoyed by Putin, so he couldn't reserve himself and mentioned about Putin in his speech, he said: "Russia is isolated, with its economy in tatters". Obama likes big words, he's well know narcissus, but his words have a little sense, he just uses occasion. Russian economy has some problems that became deeper for last months, but these problems are old ones, the recession started in Russia long before any western "sanctions". Obama simply attributes himself the merits that he has nothing to do with, actually. But as a politician, as a statesman he always was miserable narcissus with dramatic look, obsessed by his own pathos speeches. And he always will be the same.

I actually don't care too much what you think about Russia and Putin, but when I read such "analysis" about Putin and Russia been in desperate situation I start laughing.