Russian president Vladimir Putin is alleged to have fathered two secret sons who he retains hidden in considered one of his closely guarded palaces – and now he is promoting for a live-in English trainer.
The 71-year-old former KGB agent and supreme chief of the Russian state has saved his youngest offspring squirrelled away in a presidential residence on the shores of Lake Valdai, within the Novgorod area.
Guards and air defence methods encompass the advanced in a distant a part of Russia well-known for the Iversky Monastery which sits on an island within the lake.
Putin reportedly retains his sons, named as Ivan, aged 9, and Vladimir Jr, 5, in virtually monk-like confinement at his mansion since he launched the unlawful invasion towards Ukraine in 2022.
Journalism web site the File Centre has revealed the names of the 2 sons who it’s an open secret Putin had with former Olympic rhythmic gymnast Alina Kabaeva.
Ivan Putin, who’s reported to have two steps-sisters from one other of his father’s relationships, is alleged to be so happy with being Putin’s first son he tells tutors and workers that his dad shouted “Hurray! Lastly a boy!” when he heard Ivan as on the best way.
In a leaked report the journalism web site claims is from a member of workers on the Valdai residence, it is detailed how Putin’s sons have an enormous assortment of lego and use iPads for video games and video classes.
In response to the supply dozens of persons are concerned within the each day lives of the Putin’s household, together with drivers, cooks, pilots, waiters, assistants and academics – though Ms Kabaeva and Putin are understood to be on the lookout for a live-in English trainer to hitch them.
It is also reported the boys have rabbits, ponies and a St. Bernard canine as pets, and that regardless of Putin having beforehand spoken out towards Western cartoons, his eldest son Ivan prefers Disney to Russian-made reveals.
Formally Putin and Kabaeva, aged 41, have by no means been an merchandise, as the one report of a romantic previous for the president is his marriage to Lyudmila Shkrebneva in 1983 which resulted in divorce round 30 years later.
Putin and Kabaeva had been first pictured collectively at an occasion celebrating her Olympic success at a ceremony in 2001, when she was 18 years outdated.
In response to the supply from the Valdai mansion the Putins are on the lookout for a live-in English-speaking nanny for his or her boys with an advert on an company web site that claims “the household lives in isolation”.
The agency behind the nanny web site recruits personnel for rich households in Russia and the work was described as 5 days per week for 60 hours. Duties additionally embody “instructing different topics” and travelling with the household on journeys.
The wage provided is £6,400 a month, in comparison with a mean Russian month-to-month wage of round £350.
By way of a routine for the younger sons of a dictator, the File Centre says the supply stated the boys are taken to their nannies round 8am or 9am after which have 30 to 45 minutes of classes, adopted by video games.
It is reported round midday the children are given lunch and have a nap, earlier than extra courses and sport within the afternoon. At 8pm drivers choose the children up they usually “go to mattress virtually instantly”.
So far as a relationship between Putin and his sons, the File Centre claims workers at his mansion are afraid of him however that his youngsters solely take his punishments critically.