Vladimir Putin’s mistress was furious with a crying young gymnastics star the same week it was revealed she had two young children with the Kremlin dictator.
This week it was reported that furious Alina Kabaeva, 41, has two children, aged nine and five, with the Russian ruler.
The boys supposedly live like princes, secluded in palaces with their own chauffeured cars, and also travel in presidential armored trains, airplanes and yachts, while annoying their father with their love of Disney characters.
But extraordinary footage this week shows Kabaeva, an Olympic gold medal-winning rhythmic gymnast, berating the talented Karolina Tarasova during a training session in Sochi, reducing the teenager to tears.
The girl, originally from Putin-occupied Donetsk, Ukraine, is a student at Kabaeva’s elite Sky Grace Gymnastics Academy in Sochi, which published the videos of the Kremlin’s moody secret first lady appearing to wear a wedding ring, possibly suggesting a secret marriage to the Russian warmonger.
Alina Kabaeva, 41, pictured left, reportedly has two children, aged nine and five, with Russian ruler Vladimir Putin.
Kabeva (right) was seen in footage this week viciously attacking 13-year-old gymnast Karolina Tarasova.
The young gymnastics star was brought to tears when Kabeva reprimanded her.
The fight was caught on camera as the teenager stood in front of the gold medal-winning gymnast and accepted her fate.
Karolina drops an object in front of Kabaeva, who watches her and becomes furious: “You did this on purpose, Karolina. Do you hear me? Look at me. Why are you doing this on purpose? You could catch the club now.”
The girl, who turns 14 this year and has won international medals in high-level competitions, apologized to Kabeva, saying: “Please forgive me.”
Kabaeva replied: “What really happened to you? I don’t understand. What?”
Karolina, after promising it would never happen again, said she failed “because I (simply) can’t do it.”
Kabaeva told her: “You can do it. You know that I won’t cry, I won’t humiliate you.”
-I’ll turn around and walk away. And this is the most terrible thing: indifference. Remember that. Don’t do it again, Karolina, never again.
‘This is just, you know, not loving yourself in that way, putting yourself down with everything else, that’s all. And everyone’s watching you.
“Why are you doing this? I don’t understand. But you’re losing ground too.”
“Don’t let it happen again. Promise me?”
Karolina told him: “Okay, I won’t do it again.”
In another video, when Karolina repeatedly failed her exercise, Kabaeva snapped: “Don’t you know how to throw or what? Are you doing this on purpose? What were you doing just now? I don’t understand what’s going on.”
-Come here, please. Come here with me.
“Do you understand what’s happening? What are you doing? You’re going crazy, you know that?”
“Nobody is going crazy, you are going crazy yourself. Do you want to train more? But this is not training.
‘This is about working on mistakes. Psychological and physical, because when you go out to compete, you’ll be shaking.
‘And I’ll tell you, well, you know, you’ll remember what you did wrong, and not what you did right, because you have more bad things than good.’
After publicly reprimanding the girl, Kabaeva is seen hugging her and telling her not to repeat her mistakes and “go crazy.”
Five months earlier, Kabaeva had threatened to send Karolina home to occupied Ukraine, telling her: “I’m not trying to scare you, but if you go out and act like that one more time, I will personally pack your bags and you will go home.”
Teenage gymnastics star Karolina Tarasova has international medals at all major competitions to her name.
The couple hugged each other after Kabeva lost his cool.
Rumours about Putin’s love for Kabaeva, who was then married to her, first surfaced in 2008, but were denied by the Kremlin.
Kabeva is an Olympic gold medal-winning rhythmic gymnast.
Do you understand me? And stop crying.
Russian gymnastics is known for its tough training techniques and Kabaeva herself went through harsh regimes as a child on her way to Olympic glory.
Investigative outlet Dossier Centre reported this week on long-standing speculation that Kabaeva had two sons with Putin, nine-year-old Ivan and five-year-old Vladimir (junior).
Surprisingly, the children were supposedly secretly tutored by British and New Zealand citizens, but now, due to Putin’s 71-year-old war, the Russian ruler is recruiting South African citizens to teach his heirs English.
The children are reportedly living under constant surveillance by FSO (Federal Protective Service) agents.
“The brothers have little contact with their peers and see little of their parents, but they cherish the rare moments they manage to spend with their father,” the news channel said.
They do not attend school and are taught in Putin’s palaces, like the royal children of the last Russian tsar.
This week’s revelations are likely to infuriate Putin, who has kept his children under wraps and even refuses to acknowledge his relationship with Olympic gold medalist Kabaeva, which has existed since 2008, and perhaps before.
The Dossier Centre says it has found photographs of the children but is not publishing them for “ethnic reasons”, although it believes the secret children’s lavish lifestyle is of legitimate interest.
Ivan is Putin’s first child after three daughters: Maria, 39, Katerina, 37, and Luiza, 21.
Rumours about Putin’s love affair with Kabaeva first surfaced in 2008, but were denied by the Kremlin.
“I have a private life in which I do not allow interference. It must be respected,” he lamented in an interview.
He deplored “those who with their runny noses and erotic fantasies interfere in the lives of others.”
Kabeva appeared on a Russian show called One Hundred Questions for Adults when an audience of children asked her about her private life.
In one clip, a boy asked her if she had met her “dream man,” to which she laughingly replied, “Yes.”
She was then asked who the mystery man in her life was, but only revealed that “he’s a very good man, a great man,” although she added: “I love him very much.”
Kabaeva said: “Sometimes you feel so happy that you even feel afraid.”
This came after she posed nearly nude for Maxim magazine and was described by a photographer as “full of sex.”
