Vladimir Putin is no longer the macho leader he once portrayed to be if Russian defector Gleb Karakulov is to be believed. The intelligence officer, who has travelled extensively with the president, said that Putin was ‘pathologically afraid for his life’. He never uses mobile phones or the internet
The Australian government has imposed sanctions and travel bans on two daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's daughter, it said in a statement on Friday.
For decades, the lives of Vladimir Putin's two daughters by his first marriage have been shrouded in mystery. Now sanctions on his children have brought them and their opaque business dealings into the spotlight.
The Russian public doesn't know much about Putin's family or his private life. The daughters, who are in their 30s, have been shielded from public glare for the most part. So, what do we know about them and about Putin's private life?