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First pic of Putin's youngest son Vladimir Jr, 6, emerges as it's revealed his private tutors are paid £320k a year EACH

First pic of Putin's youngest son Vladimir Jr, 6, emerges as it's revealed his private tutors are paid £320k a year EACH

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VLADIMIR Putin's youngest son has been pictured for the first time ever as a snap of the six-year-old has finally emerged.
Born in Moscow in 2019, Vladimir Junior is said to have private tutors who rake in more than £320,000 a year each.
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First picture emerge of Putin's six-year-old son, Vladimir Junior
Credit: Alexei Navalny
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Olympic Gymnast Alina Kabaeva and the Russian tyrant at an event in the Kremlin
Credit: East2West
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Vladimir Jr is brothers with Ivan Putin, another reported secret son of Putin and Kabaeva
Credit: East2West
Like his brother Ivan, 10, there is no official information about him or the Kremlin despot's long relationship with their mother Alina Kabaeva, 42, an Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast.
While Swiss-born Ivan has been pictured multiple times, this is the first glimpse of 72-year-old Putin's second son – named after his father.
It comes as Russian anti-corruption campaigner Maria Pevchikh revealed the 'princes' are schooled inside Putin's hidden palaces by personal tutors on staggering salaries.
Leaked data shows the teachers are secretly paid by a company linked to Putin's billionaire crony Gennady Timchenko, 72, who also supports Kabaeva and boasts a £16billion fortune.
Details of the boys' German language tutors were exposed – Sofia Bozic, 33, from Bosnia, and Irene Ens, 36, from Germany.
Pevchikh, a long-time ally of Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny, who was 'murdered' last year in his hellhole Arctic jail, said: 'Both Irene and Sofia are the personal tutors of Putin and Alina Kabaeva's sons – Vladimir Jr and Ivan.
'They are now six and ten years old. Sofia Bozic and Irene Enns regularly travel by train to Uglovka and Akulovka stations.
'These are the nearest railway stations to Putin's residence in Valdai, where he is believed to spend most of his time with his children and Alina Kabaeva.'
The forest palace is guarded by at least a dozen state-of-the-art air defence systems to fend off Ukrainian drones and missiles.
'Since summer 2024, the personal tutors of Putin's sons have been paid by Gennady Timchenko's company Ena-Invest,' Pevchikh claimed.
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'And paid generously. If primary school teachers from the regions — even from Moscow — are watching me now, I apologise in advance, brace yourselves.
'The tutors of Putin's children receive 2,900,000 rubles a month [£26,775].'
That's more than £320,000 a year – seven years' pay for a German teacher in the Russian provinces.
Pevchikh added: 'And they're not paid by the pupils' father — after all, Putin's official salary is three times less than that of the foreign tutor.
'[The money comes from] Gennady Timchenko, who holds Putin's cashbox.
'That's the essence of the corruption system built by Vladimir Putin.
'From the very start of his first presidential term [in 2000] it was designed this way….and it continues to develop at a furious pace.'
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Vladimir Putin's secluded lakeside estate in Valdai, hidden in a national park and accessible only by guarded road or rail
Credit: East2West
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Sofia Bozic, 33, a Bosnian citizen and a teacher of German
Credit: East2West
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Irene Ens, 36, a German citizen and a teacher of German
Credit: East2West
According to Pevchikh's investigation 'Putin's Common Fund: Who Pays for Putin and Kabaeva's Luxurious Life?', Timchenko also splashed £4.6million into Kabaeva's foundation.
'Putin's beloved woman needs half a billion for a hobby,' she said sarcastically.
'Well, Putin can't just transfer it to her from his own salary card.
'And that's when dear comrade Timchenko comes to the rescue, transferring it from the place where the common money is kept.'
Another £4.2million went to a clinic linked to Putin's eldest daughter Maria Vorontsova, 40.
Putin's critics have long claimed he is one of the richest men in the world, with his wealth stashed away by friendly oligarchs – but until now there's been little proof of such 'cashbox' operations.
Officially, the Russian leader earns around £94,000 a year.
Earlier this year, Ivan was pictured at a gymnastics event in Valdai – the same high-security compound served by its own railway line and Putin's personal armoured train.
The exclusion zone around the sprawling estate is bigger than Malta, and even boasts a karting track and a massive children's playground hidden deep in the woods – painted in the yellow and blue of Ukraine.
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