Katerina Tikhonova is the daughter of Putin and his ex-wife, the former first lady (Images: East2West News)
It has been claimed that Vladimir Putin is considering parachuting his daughter into an office in parliament so that she can hold power after her death.
The Russian leader has long been rumored to be seriously ill, and some say he had to use fake technology to stage his appearances while undergoing medical treatment.
Combined with the ongoing war in Ukraine, Kremlin officials are concerned about how the status quo will be maintained after Putin’s death.
There is now a “clear demand” from Russian elites to “understand their future without Putin.”
Putin’s 35-year-old daughter, Katerina Tikhonova, may be the answer, the SVR General Telegram channel reported.
The channel is run by someone who claims to be an exiled Kremlin lieutenant general, who uses the nickname Viktor Mikhailovich.
He said: “The candidacy of the daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin Katerina Tikhonova for the post of head of the United Russia party is being actively discussed again.
“And I must say that recently, without exception, all interested people in Putin’s environment support this idea.”
Katerina Tikhonova is currently the Deputy Director of the Institute for Complex Mathematical Research at Moscow State University (Image: Vesti Rossiya). as a “puppeteer” (Image: East2West News)
The plan would be to turn the current Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev, 44, as president with Tikhonova “acting as a puppeteer” in parliament.
Mikhailovich wrote: “In the understanding of a narrow circle of people who have access to the presidential ear, Katerina Tikhonova is the only person who can act as a guarantor of the stability of the existence of the Putin regime. without being a direct successor. ‘
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Tikhonova was born to Putin and his first wife Lyudmila while the Russian leader was still a KGB spy in Germany.
She is believed to be the Deputy Director of the Institute for Mathematical Research in Complex Systems at Moscow State University.
He is currently in a relationship with Russian ballet icon Igor Zelensky, 52. He used to conduct the Bavarian State Ballet, but was forced to resign after refusing to condemn the war in Ukraine.
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It comes after Russian MP Vladimir Shamanov said the war in Ukraine could last a full decade.
The former military man, dubbed the Chechen Butcher for his role in cracking down on the region in the late 1990s, said: “(The length of the war) is the most difficult question to predict right now.
“There will be a very long period of time in which we will only be present because we will have to completely demilitarize Ukraine, which is a difficult issue that will take between five and ten years. Secondly, de-Nazification, which will go hand in hand.
“The formation of a government that has not gotten dirty with these neo-Nazis, and that will be difficult to do.”
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