One world leader has a surprisingly talented daughter. And she just got $1.6 billion.

It must be tough being the daughter of a world leader. This one in particular.

One imagines that the children of the world’s most powerful men and women are under a lot of pressure. Functions to attend, rules to abide, endless public scrutiny… If Katie Holmes’ First Daughter taught us nothing else, it’s that a normal life is well and truly out of the question.

But while Malia Obama is posting selfies from the Whitehouse and Abbott’s not-bad-looking brood are defending their fashion scholarships, the daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin have managed to stay firmly out of the limelight.

That is, until now.

Meet Katerina Tikhonova, 80s dance enthusiast, and reportedly Putin’s youngest daughter. (Post continues after video)

According to Bloomberg News the 28-year-old is a competitive dancer. She and her partner, Ivan Klimov, came sixth at the European championships for acrobatic rock’n’roll in Kaliningrad last year.

Impressive, yes, but that’s not why she’s making news.

Ms Tikhonova is also said to be running a $1.6 billion startup incubator and science centre next to Moscow University backed by Russia executives close to her dad.

Last week, an opposition blogger Alexei Navalny published a report on his Facebook page identifying Ms Tikhonova as the head of the organisation working with the university and as a Putin’s daughter, Reuters reports.

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In the past Putin has been notoriously secretive about his family life, and that’s what makes the post so interesting.

The Russian public have never seen pictures of the president’s two daughters Maria, 29, or Katerina as adults.

Until November last year, when Putin let slip in an interview with state-run news agency TASS, they didn’t even know their whereabouts.

“I have a packed work schedule. Even my daughters I only see once or twice a month, and then I need to pick my moment,” he said.

Well, competitive acrobatic rock n roll dancing keeps a person very busy, after all.