Boyan Panchevsky

Her name is Maria Vorontsova.

She is an endocrinologist.

She looks into glands and the sort of endocrine system of the human body.

And she has received quite a substantial grant of money from one of these state programs to work on research related to longevity.

So Putin has recruited his own family members.

He's recruited scientists he really trusts to work on this issue.

So it's very close to home for him.

That really shows that it's something very, very important to him as a leader of a state.

And as an autocratic leader, you know, it's not a real democracy, Russia.

It's pretty much a military dictatorship nowadays.

You know, he can commandeer the resources of state the way he likes it.

And obviously, he's decided this is a subject that merits a lot of research and a lot of funding and the input from people he really trusts, including his own daughter.

Not at all.

I was surprised to learn while researching my article that actually Russia is kind of the cradle of modern longevity science.

Going back to Joseph Stalin, the dictator of the Soviet Union, he had a longevity guru himself.

And that longevity guru organized what seems to be the world's first longevity conference.

Huh?

Back in the day, I think it was at the end of the 20s or the early 30s, it happened in Kiev, in today's Ukraine, then it was the Soviet Union.

And that guy also claimed in his studies and his medical work that people will be living up to 140 years of age.

And that guy too, unfortunately, died aged 65.