According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, data on the founders and owners of a number of near-state funds, to which persons from Vladimir Putin's entourage are related, have recently disappeared.

Information about the founders of the Innopraktika fund, to which Katerina Tikhonova is related, allegedly disappeared in December. The media call her the youngest daughter of the President of Russia. Putin has neither confirmed nor denied his relationship with her.

Information about the founders of the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation, which is headed by the mother of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, and the Talent and Success Foundation, headed by cellist Sergei Roldugin, a friend of Vladimir Putin, also disappeared. Data on the founders of the legal entity of the RT channel also disappeared.

As Sergei Uchitel, a partner at the Pen & Paper Bar Association, explained to ChTD, the order of the Federal Tax Service dated August 31, 2020, made it possible to block access to data on the founders. It follows that when registering with the tax inspectorate, NGOs, foundations, political parties and social movements, trade unions, as well as religious organisations, information about their owners can no longer be provided.

Accordingly, information about their founders and in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities may not be published.