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Feb 2, 2023 · Lyudmila was married to Putin for some 30 years, during his rise from obscurity to the most powerful person in the country. The two married in 1983 when Putin was a low-level KGB officer in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) and Lyudmila was a flight attendant for Aeroflot.
Aug 5, 2022 · The investigation said that Lyudmila Putina, 64, who remarried following her 2013 divorce and now goes by the surname Ochertnaya, started an online journal seven years earlier, when her former...
Mar 29, 2024 · Vladimir Putin's ex-wife, Lyudmila Shkrebneva, is living her best life with her new, younger husband in a sprawling French villa. But don't worry about poor Putin; he's not home alone crying into...
- Maxine Page
Apr 18, 2024 · The Kremlin on Thursday denounced French authorities for seizing a villa reportedly owned by the new husband of Russian President Vladimir Putin's ex-wife.
- Jon Jackson
- 1 min
- A New Marriage
- “Souzanna” Or “Reverie”
- Unexplained Income
- Not An Oligarch
- Not A Child of Privilege
- A Local Attraction
- Lyudmila’s “Non-Profit” Center
- So Where’s The Money?
The Russian president is notoriously secretive about his family relationships, so journalists must gather information about his private life piece by piece. A year ago, the Russian newspaper Sobesednik marshalled convincing evidence- based on documents showing that she had changed her last name - that, at some point, Putin’s ex-wife had married a m...
Anglet is on southwestern France’s Atlantic coast, between Biarritz and Bayonne. Guide books praise the sandy beaches and pine forests that surround the town. The Art Deco villa which now belongs to Ocheretny was built in 1927 and is locally known as “Souzanna.” According to planning documents, the villa is called “Reverie” by its new owner. In 201...
As far as can be discerned through publicly available information, there is nothing in Artur Ocheretny’s background that explains how he could afford to purchase and renovate such a fine home. That’s why his purchase at about the same time that he married President Putin’s ex-wife suggests a connection between the two events - and why it raises que...
If the former Mrs. Putin’s declarations are accurate, the money for the French villa must have come from her new husband. But Artur Ocheretny is hardly a successful businessman. According to “Spark-Interfax,” a database of public records, Ocheretny has been registered as the owner of three companies, all of which are now liquidated. Judging by the ...
According to French documents pertaining to the villa which were obtained by OCCRP, Ocheretny was born in Lyubertsy, a working-class town near Moscow. His father, Sergei Ocheretny, was the co-owner of one of his son’s liquidated companies. Another person who shows up in records is Lyudmila Ivanovna Ocheretnaya, likely Artur’s mother. (Her name and ...
Particularly in light of these modest beginnings, Ocheretny’s villa leaves an impression. It’s situated in a quiet part of Anglet, away from the main waterfront, in a part of town that is surrounded by golf courses. This is a place where wealthy people spend their retirement years. The Anglet seaside near Ocheretny's villa. (Olga Kravets for Meduza...
Since her divorce from the president - and despite its status as a non-profit organization - the Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications appears to have become an important source of income for Lyudmila Ocheretnaya. The Center, which is believed to have been associated with her since the early 2000s, and which her new husband Art...
Lyudmila didn’t declare it. Artur didn’t appear to have it. And yet the money for the villa must have come from somewhere. The details are, as yet, unknowable. But part of the explanation may lie in previous reporting on how the Putin family conceals its wealth. In 2016, OCCRP and Novaya Gazeta reportedthat the Panama Papers - a leak of thousands o...
Jan 25, 2016 · Lyudmila Ocheretnaya, known for over 30 years as Lyudmila Putina, married 37-year-old Artur Ocheretny early last year, receiving a new passport bearing her second husband’s surname in February.
Apr 18, 2024 · A French court’s decision to seize the $5.7-million villa belonging to Russian citizen Artur Ocheretny, the new husband of Lyudmila Ocheretnaya (formerly Putina), is “a priori illegal,” Kremlin...
