On February 28, 2022, the name ofArtur Ocheretny occurred in the French press: his villa Suzanna in Anglet in New Aquitaine had been degraded with anti-Putin and pro-Ukraine tags. Indeed, the owners of this house are none other than Lyudmila Chkrebneva, 64 years oldthe ex-wife of Vladimir Poutine, and this man. Who is the one who shares the life of the mother of the first two daughters of the President of the Russian Federation, Maria and Ekaterina?
Artur Ocheretny, almost 44 years old, is a businessman born on March 29, 1978. He grew up in Lyubertsy, a town on the outskirts of Moscow in a modest family. In the past, he worked for an events company between 2003 and 2008, Art Show Center, which was used in particular by Vladimir Putin’s political party. His ex-wife and Artur Ocheretny are married at the beginning of 2015 and she thus changed her name in the official records, thus presenting herself as Lyudmila Ocheretnaya. The husband of the former first lady of Russia from 2010 was the head of the Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications, which was founded by Lyudmila herself. According to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), the three companies he founded are said to have gone bankrupt.
It was on June 6, 2013 that Vladimir Putin announced that he had divorced Lioudmila Putina, after thirty years of marriage, in an interview on Russian television, reported by Russian agencies and taken up by AFP. At the time, they were respectively 60 and 55 years old. “It was a joint decision, our union is over“, Lioudmila said during this interview with the Rossia-24 television channel. But for a long time already, in the spheres of power in Russia, the separation of the presidential couple was no longer in doubt, especially since the first lady has not shown up at official events lately. His last appearance alongside the president dated from May 2012, date of the presidential inauguration. According to the American tabloid’s “Page Six” New York PostVladimir Putin, now in a relationship with ex-gymnast Alina Kabaeva, is said to have hidden his ex-wife and their daughters in a bunker, a sort of “underground city” in Siberiawithout specifying the presence or not of Arthur Ocheretny at their side.