The images show Maria and Katerina, both from the Russian president's former marriage, as teenagers soon after he took power in the early 2000s.They were released as part of an £11.6milllion legal case brought against the Russian state by former Putin confident Sergei Pugachev, 57, and lost this week in a Paris arbitration court. Over his long political career, Putin has always kept his children, now in their 30s, out of the limelight, never permitting them to be seen and rarely even speaking about them. The two can be seen inside the Kremlin and at the country home of now-exiled Pugachev, often in the company of Pugachev sons Viktor and Alexander. Putin's then-wife, Lyudmila Ocheretnaya, from whom he divorced in 2014, can also be seen. In one shot, they are seen in Putin’s library in the Kremlin. In another, they are playing billiards on a table once used by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. They are also seen at a private party with Russian pop group Strelki, often dubbed the Russian Spice Girls. Today Maria, 35, who uses the surname Vorontsova, has a career in medical research and is an expert on dwarfism, according to reports. She is believed to be married to a Dutch businessman with whom she has a family, making Putin a grandfather.
