The first boy was born secretly in Switzerland in 2015, according to a source related to the obstetrician who participated in the birth.
The second son was born in Moscow in 2019 with the same specialist who flew to Russia, according to an investigation by the Swiss newspaper Sonntagszeitung, reports the Daily Mail.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin, who will turn 70 this year, has since denied ties to Olympic gold medalist Kabayev, now 38 years old.
Putin hid his supposedly secret family from the electorate – and was not present at any of the births.
The investigation also found that Kabayeva was Russia’s secret first lady at a time when the country was suffering heavy losses due to the war with Ukraine.
Alina Kabayeva at public events
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It is alleged that the source of the new report released today is Kabayeva’s personal friend, who is also familiar with a maternity specialist – a Soviet-era doctor and longtime Swiss citizen who emigrated from Russia for more than thirty years.
“Our source is clear: Alina’s relationship with Putin existed. Their children – two sons – are Putin’s children. Alina had no other relationship. It would have been too dangerous for her,” the newspaper said.
The female doctor works at the Clinica Sant ‘Anna in the Italian-speaking region of Ticino, Switzerland, where her first child was born.
The obstetrician has “maintained a loyal relationship with Putin,” the report said.
“Everything had to be very discreet,” the source told the newspaper.
Before giving birth, Kabayeva secretly traveled to Lugano several times.
Alina Kabayeva
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The source described Kabayev as a “very nice woman”: “She is a real athlete, very direct, without posing. She came with her mother and sister, but without bodyguards.”
Kabajeva had also traveled to Switzerland several times before entering into relations with Putin, presumably in 2007.
She was an ambassador for Longines watches from 1999 to 2008.
There have been rumors recently that Kabayeva is hiding with her children in a Swiss summer house.
However, ten days ago, after a four-month absence from the public, she reappeared in Moscow.
There are indications that she spent time near Geneva at the residence of Gennady Timchenko, 69, a very close oligarch in Cologne.
Putin’s favorite during Alina Kabayev’s artistic gymnastics
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Tymoshenko’s representatives declined to comment on Sunday’s newspaper.
Putin has two officially recognized children, Mary, 37, and Catherine, 35, both of their first wives, Lyudmila.
Russia’s Cosmopolitan said “something has really changed in Kabayeva’s face”, adding that “the legendary athlete has become noticeably prettier”.
Avoiding her association with Putin, she says of a woman widely regarded as Russia’s unofficial first lady:
“Alina Kabayeva is one of the most mysterious women in our country. The gymnast almost never appears in public, [neparādās] on social networks and cannot be seen by accident on the street or in shopping malls. “
Putin, who announced his divorce in 2013 from the wife of former Aeroflot flight attendant Lyudmila, said earlier: “I have a private life in which I do not allow interference. It must be respected.”
He lamented “those who, with their sloppy noses and erotic fantasies, lurk in the” lives “of others.
Kabayeva said earlier that she had met a man who “I really like”: “Sometimes you feel so happy that you even feel scared.”
Russia’s council member, Putin’s alleged sweetheart Alina Kabayeva
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She once posed almost naked for Maxim magazine, and the photographer described her as “full of sex.”
There are many reports that she wore a wedding ring, but there are no records of the marriage.
She is reported to have a fleet of Maybach limousines.
Many Russians saw her as the reason for Putin’s divorce from former First Lady Lyudmila, the mother of his 63 adult daughters.
Belarus’s dictator, Alexander Lukashenko, has hinted that Putin’s divorce was due to “pressure on the president.”
