 Putin lives with Russian gymnast and earns money through offshore company selling vodka. Russian President Vladimir Putin may have earned up to 500 million dollars from sales of a popular vodka brand under his own name between 2004 and 2019, according to an investigation published by Independent Media Outlet Pro-ect. Russian vodka sold under the Putinka brand hit the shelves in Russia in 2002 and became the market leader by 2005, at which point it was selling over 40 million litres annually. It is said also that Vladimir Putin and Alina Kabaeva, gymnast and likely mother of his children, live together in a residence in Valdai, using Putin's funds from the Cyprus offshore company Ermira Consultants. This company is a common treasury for Putin and his entourage. Putin and Kabaeva most often live in a residence on Valdai, which is overgrown with VIP villages around. To buy luxury real estate, they use Putin's funds hidden in Cyprus. Funds are laundered through the company Ermira Consultants, which has registered shares in the important enterprises for Putin. The journalists met with a former business manager of one of the president's closest friends, who was involved in managing a secret financial network that included Ermira. The source said that until 2015, the company was owned by a figurehead, a lawyer from St. Petersburg, Vladislav Kopylov. But in fact, Ermira accounts paid for purchases for Putin and his relatives. He also uses this money to buy apartments and houses.