Opponents of Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus are uniting with a petition demanding that Switzerland expels former gymnast and alleged lover of the strongman Alina Kabaeva.
Kabaeva, 38, is a former Olympic gymnast and gold medalist who is widely believed to be Putin’s mistress and mother to secret children whom he has never officially recognised. The Olympic champ is said to be hiding with their secret children in a luxury villa.
The petition comes amid reports that Kabaeva, once named ‘Russia’s most flexible woman’, was sent to a private chalet in Switzerland earlier this month amid the invasion of Ukraine.
‘It’s time you reunite Eva Braun with her Führer,’ the strongly-worded petition said.
‘Despite the current war, Switzerland continues to host an accomplice of Putin’s regime.’
The West has so far not sanctioned Kabaeva, who as well as being Putin’s rumoured secret partner is also chairman of the board of directors at National Media Group a major Kremlin-obedient TV and newspaper behemoth with a salary of almost £8 million a year.
The pair have been pictured together on several occasions, and investigations by the Anti-Corruption Foundation, set up by jailed Putin opponent Alexei Navalny, revealed several Russian oligarchs have inexplicably bestowed gifts of property, money and other assets upon Kabaeva’s family.
World champion Alina Kabaeva of Russia performs the ball event in the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Club Championships in Tokyo October 10, 1999
The former gymnast is seldom seen in public, but she was caught on video dancing at the ‘Divine Grace’ rhythmic gymnastics tournament in Moscow in December last year, mere weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine
‘We, the citizens of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, which is currently undergoing immense suffering, are uniting to appeal to the Swiss authorities,’ states the petition, which was posted on change.org in in German, French and English and has so far received almost 55,000 signatures.
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‘The public has just learned that the Russian political and media figure, and former [rhythmic gymnast], Alina Kabaeva, is hiding from the consequences of the sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation in YOUR country.
The signatories question why, ‘given the volume of sanctions placed on Russia’, Swiss authorities continue to host her and her family at a time when Putin ‘is destroying the lives of millions