Maria Vorontsova

Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova (, Putina, Путина; born 28 April 1985), also referred to as Maria Faassen, is a Russian pediatric endocrinologist. She is the elder child of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Early life

Vorontsova was born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), the elder daughter of Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila Putina (née Shkrebneva). She attended German school at Dresden, East Germany, while her family lived there in the late 1980s. After her family returned to Leningrad in the spring of 1991, she attended Peterschule , a German gymnasium in Saint Petersburg. Later, after her family moved to Moscow, she attended the German School Moscow, a school closely associated with the German Embassy in Moscow for children of diplomats. She graduated after 11 years of school. Three years later, she began her university studies, enrolling together with Katerina as first year students.

Education and career Vorontsova studied biology at Saint Petersburg State University and is a graduate of medicine at Moscow State University in 2011. With Ivan Ivanovich Dedov as her advisor, she was a PhD candidate at the Endocrinology Research Centre in Moscow, headed by Dedov and which runs the charity project Alfa-Endo, for children with endocrine diseases.

In November 2023, Vorontsova was appointed to the board of the Moscow Society of Medical Genetics . According to Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's team, she's earning millions of dollars per year as an employee of the New Medical Company (NOMEKO).

Sanctions On 6 April 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned Vorontsova, stating that she "leads state-funded programs that have received billions of dollars from the Kremlin toward genetics research and are personally overseen by Putin." She is also sanctioned by the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan and New Zealand.

Personal life Vorontsova married Dutch businessman Jorrit Faassen They have a son, born August 2012. In 2014, Dutch residents called for Vorontsova to be expelled from the country after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine. In 2015, Vorontsova and Faassen were reported to be living in Moscow. who works at the Russian oil and gas company Novatek.