Paranoid despot Vladimir Putin runs Russia with an iron fist — which makes it hard for most people to imagine him as a father behind closed doors.

But the Russian premier’s family life was sharply brought into the spotlight this week when a Ukrainian journalist confronted one of his alleged daughters, Elizaveta Rudnova, 22, near her home in Paris and said Putin was responsible for his brother’s death.

“What does that have to do with me?” she shot back in the exchange, caught on video.

Like other children Putin is alleged to have fathered, Rudnova leads a very unusual life.

“You’re carrying a big load of bricks if you’re a child of Putin,” author John O’Neill, who has extensively studied and written about Russia, told The Post.

Putin, 73, only has two “official” daughters — Maria Vor

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