Foreign Property News | Posted by Si Thu Aung
VLADIMIR Putin's alleged lover was reportedly sent to Siberia after sanctions made it almost impossible to travel to the West.
Former Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Alina Kabaeva, 39, is rumoured to have two children with the Russian president.
(Vladimir Putin and his rumoured lover, Alina Kabaeva)
(She was pictured this week at a gymnastics tournament in Siberia)
(Kabaeva was spotted judging the contest amid a rumoured bid for power)
(Kabaeva previously won a gold Olympic medal for Russia in gymnastics)
Putin's supposed mistress is rarely seen in public and is believed to live in Switzerland in a mansion overlooking Lake Geneva bought for her and her children by the tyrant.
But since Russia's brutal and bloody invasion of Ukraine in February last year, Western sanctions on those close to the Kremlin have made it harder and harder for Kabaeva to travel to the West.
The two are rumoured to have been dating since 2008 when the Russian leader was still married to his first wife, Lyudmila Putina.
Three years earlier, he was pictured giving Kabaeva a prominent award at the Kremlin.
Kabaeva is known to have given birth in Switzerland in 2015 and in Moscow in 2019.
Putin has never admitted to any relationship with Kabaeva.
Kabaeva has been pictured in the Siberian city of Omsk after flying there under high security.
It isn't clear how long Kabaeva will be in Siberia.
Ref: Putin’s ‘secret lover’ sent to Siberia after sanctions stop her travelling to Swiss palace bought by Vlad for her & kids (thesun)