Putin’s £21bn bid to dwell endlessly boosted as daughter unveils ‘anti-ageing tablet’

Vladimir Putin’s £21 billion drive to cheat death has ramped up after his daughter Maria Vorontsova went on Russian state TV to tout a potential ‘anti-ageing pill’

An alarming update on Vladimir Putin’s quest to cheat death came out after his eldest daughter appeared on Russian state TV to reveal what she claimed could become the world’s first “anti-ageing pill”. Endocrinologist Maria Vorontsova, 41, is being positioned as a key face of the Kremlin’s £21billion longevity drive, a state-backed programme.

In the broadcast, the dictator’s daughter reportedly said the “main driver” pushing scientists towards longer life is “the existential fear of death”.

She further claimed: “Russia has every chance of being the first to invent a pill against ageing.” Moreover, she also reportedly hinted at how tightly the Kremlin wants such breakthroughs controlled.

“It is important to establish the criteria for who should be prescribed this pill,” Vorontsova added. The project, dubbed “New Health Preservation Technologies”, is reportedly operating under a government mandate to deliver practical longevity milestones by 2030.

Among its headline ideas is an experimental so-called “anti-ageing vaccine” – described as a gene-therapy drug designed to block the RAGE receptor, a pathway officials say triggers accelerated biological decline, the Sun reported. The programme also pours money into 3D bioprinting “living tissue”.

Researchers claim they’ve already bioprinted human cartilage and even functional mouse thyroid glands, a stepping stone, they say, towards printing transplant-ready human organs, the Times of India reported. Other strands include xenotransplantation, aiming to grow human-compatible organs inside genetically modified mini-pigs, and “extreme cryotherapy” – ultra-low temperature treatments meant to “reset” and preserve damaged tissue.

Vorontsova framed it as the start of a whole new medical era, saying: “I think that within the next 10 to 20 years, we will definitely develop this new component of the healthcare system. This will allow us to make further progress in this area within a more formal framework.”

But experts outside the Kremlin hype machine warn talk of a “world’s first anti-ageing pill” is wildly premature. Reports say there are no human trials yet, and independent scientists have raised concerns about a lack of peer-reviewed data.

The irony, analysts note, is that Russia’s male life expectancy is still only around 67-68 years, the Wall Street Journal reported. Putin himself has been caught discussing longevity on the world stage.

At a military parade in China last year, he was reportedly told through an interpreter: “The longer you live, the younger you become,” with immortality hinted at as a future possibility. China’s Xi Jinping replied: “Some predict that in this century humans may live to 150 years old.”

Putin later told an AI conference: “It is probably possible to reach 150.”

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