Russian President Vladimir Putin is romantically involved with Ekaterina “Katya” Mizulina, 39, a UK-educated art historian, described by media outlets as a “blond, Barbie type” woman. A report by the New York Post claimed that Putin is romantically involved with the woman who is 32 years younger than him.
Ekaterina Mizulina also heads the powerful, Kremlin-backed Safe Internet League and is being dubbed as Putin’s “morality guardian” and “censorship pusher”.
“Katya Mizulina is completely to Putin’s taste. This Barbie type has always suited him very well,” Russian human rights campaigner Olga Romanova was quoted as saying by Ukraine’s Channel 24.
The report by the New York Post said Mizulina is the daughter of a hardline female anti-Ukraine Russian lawmaker Elena Mizulina, 69. She aims to silence all criticism levelled against Putin online, especially those which concern the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Putin has been previously linked to Svetlana Krivonogikh, a strip-club owner and multimillionaire in St. Petersburg. They are also rumoured to have a child named Luiza who is now 20 years old.
Putin has been rumoured to have been in a relationship with 40-year-old former Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva and the pair are believed to have two or three children. Putin divorced his wife of 30 years, Lyudmila, in 2014.
Russian Telegram channel Kremlevskaya Tabakerka also claimed that the Russian leader and Ekaterina “have grown close recently” and that Putin has found a “new flame for companionship” in the 39-year-old.
Ekaterina Mizulina is a graduate of the famous School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London (SOAS) and graduated from there with degrees in art history and Indonesian language.
She once worked as a translator for official Russian delegations that visited China and joined the Safe Internet League in 2017.
She has advocated for web censorship, fines and sanctions against the news media and social networks.
“First, we will clean Ukraine from the Nazis … and then we will get to Google and Wikipedia,” Ekaterina Mizulina once said while attending an event in 2022. Earlier this month she forced a college student to apologise or face dire consequences after the student questioned the need for compulsory military service.
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