Sanctions prepared by the US Department of the Treasury, in particular, against the chairman of the board of directors of the National Media Group, Alina Kabaeva, were eventually struck off the sanctions list.. In the United States, they were afraid that Russian President Vladimir Putin would react aggressively to them. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing sources..

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It turned out that the US Treasury prepared a set of sanctions, which also contained restrictions against Kabaeva, and submitted it to the National Security Council. There, at the 11-hour meeting, courage failed and the name of the former gymnast disappeared from the list.. One of the arguments for removing Putin's mistress from the list of sanctions was that these sanctions would not affect the fighting in Ukraine anyway..

WSJ journalists also stated that Kabaeva has three children from Putin. According to them, she allegedly gave birth to her first child in 2015 in Switzerland, and then twins in 2019 in Moscow.. Sources in Washington told the newspaper that Kabaeva is helping the Russian president hide assets abroad..

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Earlier, the US, EU and UK imposed personal sanctions against Putin and his alleged daughters Ekaterina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova.