"It looks like he's not listening to anyone, but maybe he'll listen to her," an anonymous source told
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on Monday, March 21.
According to this source, the friends of Alina Kabaeva, alleged companion of Vladimir Putin, would have urged her to reason with the Russian president, so that he puts an end to the war in Ukraine.
A request to which the former gymnast could not accede.
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“Putin has set up a multitude of security perimeters, continued the witness.
Alina says she doesn't know if she can approach him.
And even if she succeeded, she does not know if she could go back and join their children.
According to this anonymous source, the sportswoman would have several passports registered under different names, which would allow her to travel more securely.
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A petition in favor of his departure
In early March,
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claimed that the head of state had secretly sent his alleged partner and their four children – 3-year-old twins and 7-year-old twins – to Switzerland, the latter's country of birth.
Since then, a petition has been circulating on Change.org for Alina Kabaeva to leave the country.
The document has already collected more than 63,500 signatures.
The Russian media, for their part, remain silent on the subject.
In the past, those who have ventured to talk about Vladimir Putin's divorce and his alleged romance with Alina Kabaeva have indeed broken their teeth there, when they have not simply put the key under the door. .
"I have always had a negative feeling towards those who, with their noses full of snot and their erotic fantasies, interfere in the lives of others", launched the Russian president, lapidary, in 2008.
However, at At the time, the name of a woman in the shadows keeps coming back to her entourage.
It is that of Alina Kabaeva, 38 - thirty years younger than the former KGB agent -, a former gymnast who became a United Russia party deputy in the Duma for eight years, before being promoted to media magnate.
"Falling from the Sky"
Alina Kabaeva was born on May 12, 1983 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, formerly included in the USSR.
Raised in a sporting family – her father is a professional football player and her mother a high-level basketball player – she has been a gymnast since the age of 3.
But his career is struggling to take off.
The trainers do not find her "cut" for the exercise and send her back to her superfluous kilos.
The determined parents moved to Moscow in 1995 where, they hoped, their daughter's talents would be recognized.
Alina Kabaeva was then 12 years old, already almost too old to hope to become a top athlete one day.
Without her meeting with Irina Viner, the coach of the Russian gymnastics team, the girl would probably have returned to more classical studies.
But the coach agrees to take Alina under her wing.
On one condition, always the same: lose weight.
The pact sealed, it bears fruit.
Three years later, the apprentice gymnast won the European rhythmic gymnastics championships at the age of 15.
Local media rave about the performances of this “sky-falling” athlete.
There followed, in the same discipline, 16 European champion trophies, 9 world champion titles, 3 vice-champions, and a gold medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004.
Hang up the leotard
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Alina Kabaeva participates in the Olympic Games in Sydney.
(September 29, 2000.) Getty Images
The honor roll of "the most flexible woman in Russia" is however tarnished by accusations of doping.
In 2001, she was suspended and her reputation damaged.
No longer having the favor of the public, Alina Kabaeva definitely hangs up her leotard seven years later, and turns to politics, then business.
A member of Vladimir Putin's party since 2001, she first became a member of the Supreme Council of United Russia.
In 2007, and at only 24 years old, she was elected deputy to the Duma before running for the post of vice-president of the commission for youth.
On February 15, 2008, she chaired the supervisory board of a major pro-Kremlin media group before heading the company, which brought together the Art Pictures film studio and the country's largest television channels.
After having dominated the gymnastic mats, Alina Kabaeva is therefore essential in the Russian media landscape.
wedding rumor
Due to her political responsibilities and the former's entrepreneurial stature, it is increasingly common to see Alina Kabaeva and Vladimir Putin together.
The duo appears in particular at gala dinners.
In 2009, a marriage rumor, fueled by the presence of a ring on the left ring finger of the former gymnast and the absence of a known spouse in her life, even goes so far as to hatch.
True to his line of conduct, the Russian president publicly declares that “there is not a word of truth there”.
The buzz intensifies as Alina Kabaeva's children are born, including her daughter's in March 2013 - the year Vladimir Putin divorced Lyudmila Shkrebneva, the mother of his daughters Maria and Katerina.
It is above all the date on which, and for the first time, the Russian president disappears without explanation for eleven days.
Did he go to Switzerland to watch over the mother and welcome the newborn?
Is he the father?
On the Instagram account of the ex-MP, since deleted, there is no clue.
Just archives of his past performances as a gymnast, as well as pictures of official ceremonies.
Vladimir Putin was there a few times.
Enough to maintain suspicions of a connection between the Head of State and the former high-level athlete.
At the time, the latter denied, for her part, having given birth to girls in the greatest secrecy.
