The eldest daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Maria Vorontsova, was appointed deputy dean of the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine of Moscow State University. Maria Pevchikh, head of the FBK investigation department, drew attention to this.
“I have “science” news for you. Putin's daughter Maria Vorontsova was quietly appointed deputy dean of the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine of Moscow State University. And you say young scientists in Russia have no prospects. If I were the dean, I would be tense from the prospects of Maria, ”Pevchikh wrote on Twitter.
After Russia's military invasion of Ukraine, the United States, Canada, the EU and Japan imposed sanctions on Putin's daughters Vorontsova and Yekaterina Tikhonova.
In April 2019, Maria Vorontsova was included in the council for the implementation of the Federal Scientific and Technical Program for the Development of Genetic Technologies. In a presidential decree published on the portal of legal information, she is named a member of the presidium of the Russian Association for the Advancement of Science. On the website of this association, she is indeed listed as a member of the presidium. It also says that it is related to the Endocrinological Research Center (ESC) of the Russian Ministry of Health.
In 2019, BBC Russian Service correspondent Farida Rustamova asked Putin about his alleged daughters, but he did not acknowledge the fact of paternity: “You mentioned one woman, the second. They mentioned their personal shares, the volume of business. Just stating a fact. When you dig into it, you will understand what kind of business is there, if it is there, who owns it, who helps there.