Vladimir Putin’s purported lover has been hit with sanctions from the US authorities’s treasury division over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Alina Kabaeva, 39, landed on the newest replace to the federal Workplace of International Belongings Management’s specifically designated nationals record, freezing any of her property within the US and usually prohibiting Individuals from coping with her.
The transfer got here a bit of greater than three months after the White Home stated Kabaeva, a famed former rhythmic gymnast, nor anybody else was protected from sanctions, even after her last-minute elimination from a spherical of such penalties in April.
United Kingdom officers had equally sanctioned Kabaeva – who now's chairperson of Russia’s New Media Group, the nation’s largest non-public media firm – in Might.
Western international locations have levied financial penalties at associates and family members of Putin to punish the Russian president, 69, for his resolution to invade Ukraine in February. The US has prevented a direct confrontation with Russia over the invasion, although it has offered billions of dollars in weapons and different assets to assist Ukraine.
The Kremlin has lengthy denied that Putin, who's divorced, is romantically concerned with Kabaeva, however numerous printed experiences counsel that she is the mom of no less than a few of his youngsters. A Moscow newspaper which, in 2008, reported that Putin and Kabaeva have been concerned regardless of his nonetheless being married on the time was shut down quickly after for unclear causes.
Kabaeva, who's initially from Uzbekistan, received gold within the 2004 Olympics in Athens. She later spent greater than six years as a lawmaker in Putin’s United Russia get together earlier than taking on the Nationwide Media Group in 2014, along with her solely prior expertise within the firm’s business being her internet hosting of a TV talkshow.
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