- The ‘Kremlin Kids’ are the children of Russia’s elite.
- The parents in Putin’s inner circle send their children to live and study in Western countries.
- The families have been sanctioned by various countries over the Russia-Ukraine War.
Nations around the world have levied sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin and the oligarchs in his close circle as the war between Russia and Ukraine rages on.
The sanctions are designed to punish the kleptocracy behind the two-month war by cutting off access to wealth, property and luxury hiding places. But the families of Putin’s closest allies have also felt the heat as the lifestyles of the “Kremlin kids,” or the children of the elites, are revealed to the public. The phrase was used by analysts Agnieszka Legucka and Bartosz Bieliszczuk of the Polish Institute of International Affairs to describe the second generation of Kremlin-connected oligarchs.
