Vladimir Putin ‘intended to waste £24 million’ on his daughter’s odd sport

Vladimir Putin, a war aggressor, once intended to spend £24 million on an acrobatic rock’n’roll centre for his daughter.

According to Reuters, the Russian President’s youngest had a senior part in the growth of the sport, thus the leader intended to spend money to create a centre for the activity. The Zhavoronki Acrobatic Rock’n’Roll Center was proposed for construction on Moscow’s western suburbs, making it the world’s sole specialised venue for the sport.

Katerina Tikhonova, Putin’s daughter, has competed in acrobatic rock’n’roll, a type of dance done as a couple or in a group. The Moscow city building administration stated at the time that the facility will be utilised for other sports in addition to the specialised dance.

“Moscow places a high value on the construction of sporting facilities.” “Over the last five years, the number of new sports facilities brought online in Moscow has essentially quadrupled,” the department told Reuters. In 2016, just about 9,000 individuals actively participated in the sport in Russia.

Tikhonova, 35, has never confessed to being Putin’s daughter, although it is commonly assumed that she is. It has also been predicted that the former dancer will be Putin’s successor.

“Trying to lead a woman through an election campaign in Russia is quite a fascinating and modern political experiment,” one of Putin’s biographers, Natalia Gevorkyan, wrote. “Putin does not have a (male) successor, at least not formally, but he has two daughters, one of them, Ekaterina, has already entered the public eye with various large and expensive initiatives.”