SPIEF has become a platform for children of the Kremlin elite

The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which opened on June 5, has become a platform for performances by the children of the Russian political elite, Bloomberg notes .

Thus, two daughters of Vladimir Putin, Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova, will speak at the SPIEF.

The youngest daughter of the former Minister of Defense and current Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Shoigu, Ksenia, will present the Cup of the Running Capital of the Country to Magadan at the SPIEF venue. She wrote about this on her Telegram channel.

The SPIEF Youth Day will be held by the ASI Youth Initiatives Center, which is headed by Alexander Vaino, the son of the head of the Kremlin administration Anton Vaino.

Also speaking at the forum in St. Petersburg will be Anna Tsivileva, chairwoman of the "Defenders of the Fatherland" foundation, which helps soldiers who fought in Ukraine. The British authorities called her Putin's relative. She is also the wife of Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev.

In addition, as Bloomberg writes, the children of some of Putin's closest allies are also among the participants of the four-day forum. For example, the son of billionaire Boris Rotenberg, Roman. As part of the SPIEF, he will play hockey in a team of businessmen, just like last year. On June 5 and 6, the teams "Champion", "Business", "Politics" and "Administration of St. Petersburg" will take to the ice of "Hockey City".

Vladimir Putin himself will speak at the plenary session of the forum on June 7. You can only get there with special tickets, which this year cost 1 million 350 thousand rubles.

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