Katerina Tikhonova, the youngest daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has a new mission in Russia’s most powerful business lobby: to help overcome the impact of international sanctions for the war generated in Ukraine, according to the RBC newspaper.
Tikhonova, who was sanctioned by the United States and its allies, has been named co-chair of a committee to coordinate the import substitution efforts of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, known as RSPP, the Moscow-based newspaper reported on Wednesday. and picked up by Fortune.
In this context, the Russian leader has emphasized the importance of Russian companies replacing foreign goods and services with domestic alternatives since the United States and Europe imposed sanctions after their annexation of Crimea in 2014, Fortune publishes.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has generated a large amount of , which threatens a drastic drop in production in many sectors of the economy. To this is added that there has been little real progress and the economy continues to “depend” to a large extent on imported products that are no longer freely available, says the media.
Tikhonova’s projects
Tikhonova, 35, was linked to a €1.6bn project to develop a science center and start-up incubator alongside Moscow State University, Forune says.
He also headed the elite school’s artificial intelligence center and its sister fund, the foundation for development. Both are managed by Innopraktika, which counts Putin associates including Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin and Gazprombank CEO Andrei Akimov as board trustees, the publication details.
family in power
The document also refers to the fact that the eldest daughter of the president, Maria Vorontsova, was also sanctioned in April by the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States, since they established that she “directs state-funded programs that have received billions of dollars from the Kremlin for genetic research and are personally supervised by Putin.”
In this regard, Putin keeps his tight line and strictly protects his private life. About this and other appointments, he has said very little publicly.
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