The Proekt report said: “The royal scale of the purchase as well as the regal name of the residential complex seem to hint at the special status of the person who was to live in this luxury. The status of this person is indeed special. “She is the uncrowned queen of Russia, the secret concubine of President Putin and the alleged mother of his children.” He was apparently ‘swearing’ and ‘yelling’, blaming his FSB security service and Kabaeva’s friends for the leak, which claimed that he and the gymnast shared a secret life at a forest palace in Valdai, 250 miles north-west of Moscow.