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Putin is ‘grooming secret son, 9, to be his successor with his daughters ready to act as regents’, claims ex-Russian MP
Putin only publicly admits to have two daughters - but is believed to have fathered six children
VLADIMIR Putin could be grooming his alleged secret nine-year-old son for power as he plots a dynastic succession, according to a new bombshell claim.
The 71-year-old tyrant is rumoured to also want to bring his two elder daughters into power imminently to act as potential “regents” if his health fails.
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According to a bizarre new theory, Putin is said to want to carry on ruling Russia until his undisclosed and hidden son, Ivan, turns 18 and he hands him the Kremlin reins as the country's new tsar.
This would involve changing the Russian constitution - which Putin has had no trouble editing before - which dictates a president must be older than 35.
The strange allegation comes from Russian lawyer, ex-MP and political pundit Mark Feigin, 52, who once represented the iconic anti-Putin punk band Pussy Riot.
Speaking to Ukrainian TV host Dmitry Gordon, who last week quizzed Boris Johnson in Kyiv, claimed that Putin has two young sons with his long term gymnast mistress Alina Kabaeva, 40.
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The paranoid and private ageing ruler only publicly claims his two high-flying with his first wife - but is rumoured to have at least six children.
The despot's older alleged secret son, Ivan, is believed to be nine and already being primed for presidency.
He is long rumoured to have been born in an exclusive private clinic in Switzerland.
The other - Vladimir junior - was reportedly born four years later in Moscow in 2019, with the same Swiss-based Soviet-born doctor Dr Natalia Thiebaud Kondratieva, 63, in charge of the delivery.
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The doctor died suddenly one year ago, four days before her role in the alleged births of Kabaeva's sons was made public.
Putin - who is all but certain to secure a third term this month in a sham election - is plotting “a dynastic transfer of power within a totalitarian system,” Feigin argued.
“This is important to him,” he said. “In the next 12 years, he must create conditions in the system under which no one except his heirs can be at the head of the state."
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Feigin argued: “There are sons in this marriage [with Kabaeva], that’s absolutely true.
“This has been established and confirmed by many…She definitely has two sons…these are Ivan and Vladimir."
He continued with his theory: “I assume that he wants to wait until the coming of age at 18 of one of the sons….”.
Feigin explained that Putin could pull off an "overnight" change in the constitution that would allow an early royal-style succession by a son, rather than wait for the age of 35.
“For Putin this option, of course, is the best,” he said.
"It's the golden option. To give to his son, who will sit on the throne, even if it is some group of regents consisting of his daughters, or others…somehow they will formalise it.”
Putin's 'plans for his daughters'
Feigin suggested that Russia is too “sexist” for Putin to hand over to his two elder daughters Maria Voronteva, 38, and Katerin Tikhonova, 37.
The same would apply to his alleged secret DJ daughter Luiza Rozova - a child he is rumoured to share with cleaner-turned-multi-millionaire bank owner Svetlana Krivonogikh, 48.
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Luiza, who turns 21 this week, is believed to be a studying in a Western capital while Russia's war in Ukraine drags on.
But Feigin said that his two public daughters will ";certainly" be brought to power as "he needs them".
He forecast that his daughter Maria - who has suddenly been propelled into the limelight in recent months - will be made health minister after the election.
Her younger sister Katerina could be made education minister, Feigin predicted.
“Russia is a sexist country, and the women’s issue in politics and power is not an easy one,” said Feigin on Gordon's widely-watched YouTube show.
“Putin, most likely, will choose the path of maximum stay in power.… He [also] has a daughter from his [ex-]mistress [Svetlana] Krivonogykh.”
Putin’s two eldest daughters were with his ex-wife Lyudmila Putina, Russia’s former first lady.
Maria Vorontsova is a geneticist and expert on dwarfism, is a leading researcher at the National Medical Research Centre for Endocrinology of the Ministry of Health of Russia.
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Her sister Katerina Tikhonova, 37, a former high kicking ‘rock’n’roll’ dancer-turned-mathematician, is director-general of the National Intellectual Development Foundation in Russia.
Feigin admitted things could go wrong with his vision of Putin's intended succession for Russia, which would depend on his secret services allies remaining loyal as he ages.
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