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Vladimir Putin has an eight-year-old granddaughter — Elza Tikhonova. Her parents are the Russian president’s younger daughter and ballet dancer Igor Zelensky.
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Meduza [en] · Eastern Europe
Vladimir Putin has an eight-year-old granddaughter, the daughter of Katerina Tikhonova, head of the Innopraktika foundation and the Russian president’s younger daughter, and ballet dancer Igor Zelensky. Journalists with the Russian investigative outlet Proekt found that the girl is named Elza Igorevna Tikhonova.
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