Russian journalist who uncovered Putin's daughter now a fugitive

Mediazona reports that the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has placed investigative journalist Andrei Zakharov, who is from Petersburg, on the wanted list.

The criminal case against Zakharov commenced before 18 April. Shortly after, a search was conducted in St. Petersburg at the home of Ksenia Klochkova, an independent correspondent for Fontanka and author of the Telegram channel Rotunda. Security forces believed she might know Zakharov and possess material evidence related to the ongoing criminal case against him.

Andrei Zakharov worked at Fontanka until 2016, after which he moved to Moscow, where he got a job at RBC and also had the chance to work as a special correspondent for the Russian BBC service.

Zakharov wrote several high-profile investigative articles for which he received the Golden Pen Award. The Moscow Times recalls that he is the author of the investigation into Vladimir Putin's alleged third daughter, Luiza Rozova.

In October 2021, the journalist was declared a "foreign agent" in Russia. In December of the same year, he left the Russian Federation.

In 2023, Zakharov was twice held administratively liable for distributing materials without the "foreign agent" label, for which he was fined £440.

Obozrevatel reported on the uncanny resemblance, which confirms the family ties between Putin and Rozova. Therefore, the girl rarely posted her pictures on social networks or hid her face in them.

The real name of Putin's third daughter is Elizaveta Krivonogikh. Her mother, Svetlana, was an ordinary cleaner in the 1990s and lived in a communal apartment in St. Petersburg. After meeting Putin, she suddenly became a multimillionaire.

Now, Putin's former lover is one of the wealthiest people in Russia. She owns the Igora ski resort and property in Monaco.