A new generation of influential and successful young women is emerging in Russia. Vladimir Putin’s daughters are also there.
Moscow – Whether as an influencer in social media, manager of a billion-dollar company or as a model for glittering fashion magazines: A new generation of extremely successful high society women is currently developing in Russia. As the daughters of influential fathers in the Kremlin, young women in Russia’s otherwise male-dominated business world now have significantly more doors open than they were a few years ago. According to information from the Daily Beast, the daughters of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Yekaterina Tikhonova (34) and Maria Vorontsova (36) also feel at home in these illustrious circles.
As a former acrobat, Yekaterina Tikhonova took over the 1.5 billion dollar project for the development of the Science and Technology Park of the State University in Moscow at the age of only 28. Her suspected sister, Maria Vorontsova, is reportedly leading a genetic technology development program with a budget of more than a billion. The youngest daughter of the Russian Defense Minister, Ksenia Shoigu (30) sold her IT start-up company Sistema SmartTech just under a week ago, according to the Daily Beast. Defense Minister Sergei Shogui’s daughter founded the company just under a year ago – according to the Daily Beast, the company generated more than 3 million US dollars last year.
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But Shoigu is not only in demand in the business world. She has a very public lifestyle – holds one fashion shoot after another, organizes numerous sports events and speaks to journalists about her work. According to the Daily Beast, an atypical behavior, the Kremlin daughters usually stay away from the press or public events. “Otherwise, the daughters are only allowed to take part in the annual ball organized by ‘Tatler Magazin'”, explains TV presenter Anna Mongait to the Daily Beast. Every year the Cremé de la Cremé presents its daughters in fur and expensive ball gowns to the Russian elite. So at least an evening to escape the golden cage.
Another example of Russia’s aspiring high society daughters is the multi-million dollar ballerina Maria Shuvalova – daughter of the deputy prime minister. When she’s not jetting around the world and sharing her luxurious lifestyle with her followers on Instagram with pictures of expensive luxury yachts from Duba, she is on stage as a ballerina in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. In addition to her career as a dancer, Schuvalova also owns numerous luxury properties in the region and shares in a company from London, according to Daily Beast. According to information from the Russian news site Baza, the 18-year-old earned just under 20 million US dollars last year alone.
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In contrast, the activities of the Kremlin subsidiaries are rarely of a political nature. Most of the time, they spend their time on Instagram or other social media platforms. But by no means all are enthusiastic about the meteoric rise of the Kremlin daughters. “Most of these girls would never have got their high positions in multi-billion dollar companies without the influential relationships of their fathers,” criticized Gennady Gudkov, a former member of the Russian parliament on Thursday (May 27th, 2021) to the Daily Beast.
But there are exceptions: Ksenia Sobchak, known as Putin’s goddaughter, has built up her success over the years, according to the Daily Beast – she was featured as a model on numerous front pages of well-known fashion magazines. In 2011, to everyone’s surprise, the TV diva joined the opposition movement in Russia. According to the Daily Beast, she even confronted her godfather Vladimir Putin in numerous video messages with allegations of corruption and political persecution by the Kremlin government.
Despite exceptions, the criticism of the political lethargy of the Kremlin daughters is growing: “None of the Kremlin daughters advocate women’s rights, global warming, the plight of immigrants or the terrible problems of domestic violence. We’ll never be able to hear their voices unless the power of men over women is addressed, “Rain TV’s Kagershin Sagiyeva told Daily Beast. (Jan Lucas Frenger)
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