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Maria Vorontsova

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For the botanist, see Maria Vorontsova (botanist).
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vladimirovna and the family name is Putina.

Maria Vorontsova
Мария Воронцова
(L–R) Katerina, Vladimir, Lyudmila and Maria in Primorsky Krai in 2002
Born
Mariya Vladimirovna Putina

(1985-04-28) 28 April 1985 (age 39)
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Other names
  • Maria Faassen
  • Maria Nagornaya
Education
OccupationEndocrinologist
Spouses
  • ​
    ​
    (m. 2008, divorced)​
  • Yevgeny Nagorny
Children2
Parents
RelativesKaterina Tikhonova (sister)

Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova (Russian: Мария Владимировна Воронцова, née Putina, Путина; born 28 April 1985), also referred to as Maria Faassen,[1][2] is a Russian pediatric endocrinologist.[3] She is the eldest child of Russian president Vladimir Putin.[1][4]

Early life

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Vorontsova was born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg),[5] the elder daughter of Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila Putina (née Shkrebneva).[1] She attended German school at Dresden, East Germany, while her family lived there in the late 1980s. After her family returned to Leningrad in the spring of 1991, she attended Peterschule (Russian: Петершуле), a German gymnasium in Saint Petersburg.[6] Later, during violent gang wars involving the Tambov Gang while it was taking control of Saint Petersburg's energy trade, she and her sister Katerina were sent by their father, who feared for their safety, to Germany where their legal guardian was former Stasi Matthias Warnig, who had worked with their father in Dresden as part of a KGB cell and established the Dresdner Bank branch in Saint Petersburg.[7]

She played the violin for a Russian consulate general of Hamburg–sponsored diplomatic breakfast in 1995.[8][9][10] Later, after her family moved to Moscow, she attended the German School Moscow, a school closely associated with the German Embassy in Moscow for children of diplomats. She graduated after 11 years of school. Three years later, she began her university studies, enrolling together with Katerina as first year students.[5][6][11][12]

Studies and career

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Vorontsova studied biology at Saint Petersburg State University[13] and is a graduate of medicine at Moscow State University in 2011.[1][14] With Ivan Ivanovich Dedov (Russian: Иван Иванович Дедов) as her advisor, she was a PhD candidate at the Endocrinology Research Centre in Moscow, headed by Dedov and which runs the charity project Alfa-Endo, for children with endocrine diseases.[14] Alfa-Endo is funded by Petr Aven and Mikhail Fridman's Alfa-Bank of the Alfa Group.[1]

Between 2013 and 2015, Vorontsova co-authored five studies including "The status of blood antioxidant system in patients with active acromegaly". She also, in 2015, co-authored a book about idiopathic stunting in children.[1] Vorontsova is credited to be Putin's advisor in genetic engineering, especially in the usage of CRISPR to create genetically engineered babies.[15]

In November 2023, Vorontsova was appointed to the board of the Moscow Society of Medical Genetics (Russian: Московское общество медицинских генетиков).[16][17] According to Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's team, she's earning millions of dollars per year as an employee of the New Medical Company (NOMEKO).[18]

Sanctions

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On 6 April 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned Vorontsova, stating that she, "leads state-funded programs that have received billions of dollars from the Kremlin toward genetics research and are personally overseen by Putin."[19] She is also sanctioned by the European Union, the United Kingdom,[20][21] Japan[22] and New Zealand.[23][24]

Personal life

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Vorontsova married Dutch businessman Jorrit Faassen[1] in summer 2008 in Wassenaar in the Netherlands.[25] They have a son, born August 2012.[25] In 2013, they were living in a penthouse atop the highest residential building in Voorschoten.[26][27] In 2014, Dutch residents called for Vorontsova to be expelled from the country after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine.[28] In 2015, Vorontsova and Faassen were reported to be living in Moscow.[1] In 2022, it was reported that they are no longer married.[25]

Vorontsova is married to Yevgeny Nagorny,[29] who works at the Russian oil and gas company Novatek.[25] They have a son, born April 2017.[30]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Grey, Stephen; Kuzmin, Andrey; Piper, Elizabeth (10 November 2015). "Putin's daughter, a young billionaire and the president's friends". Reuters. Archived from the original on 18 June 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  2. ^ Damien Sharkov (2 February 2016). "What do we know about Putin's family?". Newsweek. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Putin could decide for the world on CRISPR babies". MIT Technology Review. 30 September 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  4. ^ Kramer, Andrew E. (8 December 2018). "Woman Said to Be Putin's Daughter Appears on TV, and a Taboo Is Cracked". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 16 December 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  5. ^ a b Pat Ralph; Ellen Cranley (7 December 2018). "Putin has 2, maybe 3, daughters he never talks about – here's everything we know about them". Business Insider. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
  6. ^ a b Болотская, Рита (Bolotskaya, Rita); Земзаре, Инга (Zemzare, Inga) (7 August 2002). "Дочки №1: Машу и Катю Путиных воспитывают в строгости, но они все равно часто подкалывают друг друга" [Daughters # 1: Masha and Katya Putin are brought up in severity, but they still often tease each other]. Собеседник.ру (Sobesenik) (in Russian). Archived from the original on 7 November 2002. Retrieved 26 January 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Alt URL
  7. ^ Belton 2020, pp. 101–102, 521–522.
  8. ^ Pietsch 2001.
  9. ^ Питч 2002.
  10. ^ Meyer, Fritjof [in German] (19 February 2001). "Ljudmila staunt" [Lyumila is amazed]. Der Spiegel (in German). Archived from the original on 1 February 2011. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  11. ^ Ролдугин, Олег (Roldugin, Oleg) (12 January 2011). "Дочки Путина. Полная версия" [Daughters of Putin. Full version]. Собеседник.ру (Sobesenik) (in Russian). Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ Плужников, Сергей (Pluzhnikov, Sergey); Соколов, Сергей (Sokolov, Sergey) (10 February 2000). "Кандидат №1 в президенты не хочет, чтобы его дети жили в России: В 1998 г. обучение дочерей Путина в немецкой школе стоило14256 DM" [The # 1 presidential candidate does not want his children to live in Russia: In 1998, the tuition of Putin's daughters in a German school cost DM 14,256]. «FreeLance Bureau» (flb.ru). ru. Retrieved 26 January 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)[dead link] Alt URL
  13. ^ Herszenhorn, David M. (5 May 2012). "In the Spotlight of Power, Putin Keeps His Private Life Veiled in Shadows". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 March 2020. Both daughters attended German-language schools and St. Petersburg State University, where Maria studied biology and Yekaterina majored in Asian Studies.
  14. ^ a b Канев, Сергей (Kanev, Sergey) (31 January 2016). "ПЕРВАЯ ДОЧЬ СТРАНЫ" [FIRST DAUGHTER OF THE COUNTRY]. The New Times (in Russian). Archived from the original on 21 January 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. ^ Kravchenko, Stepan (29 September 2019). "Future of Genetically Modified Babies May Lie in Putin's Hands". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on 29 September 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  16. ^ "Putin's Daughter Joins Moscow Genetics Society, Criticizes Russian Laws – Mozhem Obyasnit". The Moscow Times. 13 November 2023. Archived from the original on 13 November 2023. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  17. ^ "How Putin's daughter makes millions as a shareholder of her own company". meduza.io.
  18. ^ "Putin's Daughter Reportedly Earned More Than $10 Million In Three Years With Well-Connected Medical Company". Radio Free Europe. 15 January 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  19. ^ "U.S. Treasury Escalates Sanctions on Russia for Its Atrocities in Ukraine". United States Department of the Treasury. 6 April 2022. Archived from the original on 6 April 2022. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  20. ^ Jolly, Jasper (8 April 2022). "UK joins US in imposing sanctions on Putin's daughters". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 9 April 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  21. ^ Petrequin, Samuel; Casert, Raf; Cook, Lorne (8 April 2022). Written at Brussels. "EU imposes sanctions on Putin's daughters". New York City: Associated Press. Archived from the original on 9 April 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  22. ^ "Japan OKs asset freezes on 398 Russians, including Putin's daughters". The Japan Times. 12 April 2022. Archived from the original on 12 April 2022. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  23. ^ Mahuta, Nanaia (21 November 2022). "Further sanctions on the political and economic elites of Russia and Belarus". New Zealand Government. Archived from the original on 21 November 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  24. ^ Pearse, Adam (21 November 2022). "Russia-Ukraine war: President Vladimir Putin's daughters sanctioned by New Zealand". The New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 24 November 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  25. ^ a b c d Soshnikov, Andrei; Reiter, Svetlana (8 April 2022). "The Secretive Life Of The Dutch Man Who Was Believed To Be Vladimir Putin's Son-In-Law: An Investigation". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Archived from the original on 9 April 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  26. ^ "Spokesman Denies Putin Wanted to Visit Daughter in Dutch Village". The Moscow Times. 9 April 2013. Archived from the original on 12 April 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  27. ^ "Familie van Poetin woont in Voorschoten" [Putin's family lives in Voorschoten]. Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Voorschoten. 8 April 2013. Archived from the original on 8 April 2013. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  28. ^ Charter, David (24 July 2014). "Dutch call for Putin daughter's expulsion". The Times. Archived from the original on 6 September 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  29. ^ "Putin Daughter's Unofficial Husband, Ex-Husband Spared From Sanctions – Investigation". The Moscow Times. 8 April 2022. Archived from the original on 9 April 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  30. ^ Soshnikov, Andrei; Reiter, Svetlana (8 April 2022). "Пленники ближнего круга | Как любитель пива из Нидерландов женился на дочери Путина – а теперь не может вернуться на родину, несмотря на войну". Current Time TV (in Russian). Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.

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