Maria Vorontsova, Russian President Vladimir Putin's oldest child, who has largely stayed out of the public eye, gave a 42-minute interview to a Russian nonprofit in which she discussed global advances in medicine and library and musical arts.
Vorontsova is an endocrinologist. Newsweek reported that her association with her father was never mentioned during the interview with Medtech, nor was Russia's invasion of Ukraine discussed.
She called Russia a "human-centric society" rather than a "economic-centric society" and where "the value of human life is a supreme value,” according to Newsweek.
Vorontsova is one of two daughters from Putin's first marriage to Lyudmila Shkrebneva. They divorced in 2013.
Newsweek noted the Kremlin has closely guarded details of the two daughters, even though Putin has never publicly acknowledged the women's relation to him.
In April 2022, the European Union imposed sanctions on the two women as part of a new package of measures targeting Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, two EU officials told The Associated Press.
The EU had included them in its updated list of individuals facing an assets freeze and travel ban. The two EU officials from different EU member countries spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press.
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