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<\/p>\nTHE glamorous dancer daughter of Vladimir Putin's crony has become Russia's youngest billionaire.<\/p>\n
Varvara Skoch, 21, holds a mesmerising fortune of \u00a32billion and is already the target of sanctions by the UK, US and Ukraine due to her sordid connections with the Russian tyrant.<\/p>\n
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The blonde beauty is one of ten children of Russian mining and metals mogul Andrei Skoch – a staunchly pro-Putin MP that represents the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Her 57-year-old father is worth over \u00a36billion himself and was sanctioned by the US in 2018 for "longstanding ties to Russian organised criminal groups".<\/p>\n
His daughter has a serious stake in his company and has long-lived in the company of Russia's most elite.<\/p>\n
Pictures reveal a life of extraordinary wealth and time spent at extravagant parties or jetting off to luxury holidays abroad with her reported partner – the son of Putin's wealthiest minister. <\/p>\n
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Her love interest Evgeny Manturov,\u00a025, is the son of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, 54, who plays a key role in the management of invaded regions of Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The pair have enjoyed skiing and skating in Switzerland and beach holidays in the Seychelles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Moscow sources also say that she has been a ballroom dancer since childhood, while also playing a key role in the family business.<\/p>\n
In March, she and her dance partner were called "rising stars" in International Latin dancing by the Crystal Ball 2023 judges.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Vavaria reportedly holds both a Cypriot and Russian passport and has strong links to London where she owns a sprawling mansion in St John's Wood.<\/p>\n Vavaria is one of only seven female billionaires in Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n Previously there were never more than three women on the Russian rich list.\u00a0<\/p>\n Forbes Russia reported: \u201cInterestingly, four out of seven\u00a0[women]\u00a0billionaires are newcomers to the ranking.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is due to the fact that in 2022, due to sanctions pressure…\u00a0Russian billionaires began to reduce their shares in assets and transfer them to relatives (or hired managers)."<\/p>\n She allegedly held a\u00a0significant\u00a015 per cent\u00a0stake in former Arsenal FC shareholder and her father's business partner Alisher Usmanov\u2019s company since the age of 18.<\/p>\n Ukraine claims that his company, USM Holding, aids in Putin's invasion of Ukraine by its coperation with "critical military-industrial facilities and other industrial facilities of the Russian Federation\u201d.<\/p>\n As such it \u201cfacilitates terrorist activities and occupation of the territory of Ukraine\u201d.<\/p>\n Britain\u00a0also froze her assets after accusing her of \u201cacting on behalf or at the direction of a person [her father] involved in destabilising Ukraine or undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty or independence of Ukraine\u201d.<\/p>\n It comes as a Russian colonel was blown up in a drone strike while mowing his lawn in a humiliating blow to Putin.<\/p>\n Police\u00a0Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Chernykh was doing garden work at his country home in Shchetinovka,\u00a0Russia, just 1,000ft from the Ukraine border when he was reportedly killed.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Vlad's henchmen flanked the gates of a St. Petersburg cemetery today as Wagner Group warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin was laid to rest in a "private ceremony".<\/p>\n In the first post on his official Telegram channel in more than two months, the Wagner Group confirmed that its leader – who died in a plane crash last week – had his final farewell.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/newspress-collage-23684640-1693291109597.jpg\")
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