"War of Roses": Putin's children live in a gold cage but can start fighting for power - the media

After the start of a full -scale invasion, the President of Russia continues to play, but now his partners have become personal guards. Anna Nemtsova writes about it for The Atlantic. However, according to journalists of the Russian opposition group "Dossier", Putin is doing everything possible to hide other aspects of her life, including relations with the former gymnast Alina Kabaeva, who has been considered a romantic partner for more than a decade.

Kabaeva watches his hockey matches from a separate room hidden behind a darkened glass so that she does not notice the staff. According to the investigation, the Center of the Dossier, the life of Putin and his probable family is wrapped in secret. He carefully conceals children from Kabaeva, as well as his daughters from the first marriage, who live under fictional names.

But in recent years, journalists and activists have received unprecedented access to Putin's immediate environment, which is a mass failure by his security services. Kabayev was once called the "golden girl" of Russia through the 2004 Gold Olympic Medal. But now, at the age of 41, it is almost completely living in the shadow of Putin in his residence in the frosty North Valdai.

Putin's private life is protected by extraordinary security measures: guests should be quarantined before meetings, and children move around the palace only by cars. However, journalists managed to access Putin's sons, published by his staff. Rumors about Putin and Kabaeva's relations began to walk in 2008, when the Russian newspaper "Moscow Correspondent" published news about their plans to marry, which caused Putin's anger and the closure of the publication.

However, such secrets remain hidden for a long time. Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition leader, published a video investigation of Putin's Black Sea estate before his death. Other journalists continue to explore Putin and Kabaeva's connections, including they found a private railway, which Kabayeva goes to Putin's Palace on Valdai and back. How many children Putin and Kabaev have for sure, but there is evidence that one of them was born in Switzerland. This is Ivan, who is 9 years old.

He likes to play chess online, said the author of the report of the Dossier Center Ilya Rozhdestvensky. This indicates that he can have access to the outside world. Obviously, the son potentially has access to information about his father's crimes in Ukraine, including the abduction of Ukrainian children. Rozhdestvensky called his investigation "heirs" in honor of the series in which children fight for the parental empire.

The editor of The Insider Timur Olevsky told what the battle for power between several groups of Putin's children may look like. "Russia is likely to suffer from conflicts that will last for decades, as the war of roses. So far, Putin's children will continue to live in the gold cage," he said.

The rose war is a series of military conflicts that were controlled by the English throne in the middle to the end of the 15th century between the supporters of the two warring cadet branches of the royal house of Plantagenet: Lancaster and York. The wars destroyed the male lines of two dynasties. We will remind, on September 4 the Center "Dossier" published a material that told about the heirs of the President of the Russian Federation.