London. Britain has banned the step-daughter of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov under new sanctions on Russian “oligarchs, businesses and hired thugs”. As the Daily Mail reports, among the new sanctions announced on Thursday are mercenaries from the Wagner Group, known as ‘Putin’s private army’. He has been charged with attempting to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other senior Ukrainian politicians.
The most prominent target of sanctions is Imperial College graduate Polina Kovaleva, a glamorous 26-year-old who lives in a £4million house in Kensington.
Polina’s mother is 51-year-old Svetlana Polyakova, a powerful member of the Russian Foreign Ministry who accompanies Lavrov on every foreign trip, and they have had a relationship since the early 2000s.
According to the Daily Mail, it is rumored that she is Lavrov’s ‘unofficial’ wife.
Polina attended a private boarding school in Bristol before earning a first class degree in Economics with Politics at Loughborough University and later completing her Masters in Economics and Strategy for Business at Imperial College London.
She went on to work for the Russian energy giant Gazprom, where she helped with mergers and acquisitions, and later worked at the mining company Glencore.
Before buying her home, she lived in an apartment in a townhouse in Holland Park, west London, which is owned by the Russian Embassy, reports the Daily Mail.
Records show that the nearby Ukrainian embassy alleged that Russia had falsely claimed ownership of the property.
—AnyTV News
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