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Leak Reveals Putin’s Ironic Family Secret

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Alexei Babushkin / Sputnik/Alexei Babushkin/Pool via REUTERS Vladimir Putin’s secret grandson has been given a new name after an ironic twist put him a little too close to the Russian dictator’s arch-enemy. Leaked records reveal that Putin’s closely guarded family added a new member in August 2025, when his daughter Katerina Tikhonova, 40, gave birth to a son, Adrian, according to the independent Russian investigative news outlet Agentstvo .

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