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GROWING up in a huge mansion, filled with unlimited toys and animals sounds like any kid’s dream - unless you’re the child of Vladimir Putin. It has been revealed that the Russian president has two secret sons, Ivan, nine, and Vladimir Jr, five, with glamorous Olympic gymnast partner Alina Kabaeva - who once posed naked for Maxim. Putin - who also has three daughters - was apparently so happy when his eldest son was born that he shouted: “Hurray! Finally! A boy!” However, he has been hiding his sons from the world at his heavily guarded Lake Valdai residence for...

President Vladimir Putin has two young sons with former Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva, both of which have been living in secret since their births, according to a report by a Russian investigative group started by a former billionaire Putin foe, though Putin and Kabaeva have denied romantic ties for more than a decade. Putin and Kabaeva share two sons, Ivan Putin and Vladimir Putin Jr., who were born in 2015 and 2019, respectively, according to the Dossier Center, a Russian investigative news organization that cited unnamed sources who claimed to regularly see the children. Putin, 71, has publicly acknowledged having...

Vladimir Putin's lover snapped with impatience at a weeping young gymnastics star in the same week she was revealed to have two young sons with the Kremlin dictator. -snip- But extraordinary footage from this week shows Kabaeva - an Olympic gold-medal winning rhythmic gymnast - berating talented Karolina Tarasova during a training session in Sochi, reducing the teenager to tears. The girl, from Putin-occupied Donetsk in Ukraine, is a student at Kabaeva's elite gymnastics Sky Grace Academy in Sochi, which released the videos of the grumpy secret Kremlin first lady, who appears to be wearing a wedding ring, possibly suggesting...