Report: Mother of Russia’s presidential administration chief receives large sum by lending to defense company

The mother of Russia’s Presidential Administration chief Anton Vaino received more than half a billion rubles in 2023 from the Russian defense company group Sfera, the independent Russian investigative outlet iStories reported. Tatyana Yezhevskaya, 74, became a creditor of Sfera for 450 million rubles in March 2022, shortly after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The following year she collected repayment of the debt with interest — 525 million rubles in total.