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The Putins Announce They're Getting Divorced
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Jun 08, 2013 01:11pm |
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| Category | Announcement |
| Author | Ezekiel Pfeifer |
| News Date | Friday, June 7, 2013 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | President Vladimir Putin appeared with his rarely seen wife Lyudmila in a TV interview on Thursday night to announce that after almost 30 years of marriage, they had decided to get divorced.
"It was a mutual decision," the president said on state-run Russia 24 television.
The surprise announcement came after years of speculation over the first couple's obscure relationship. Unlike many other world leaders and their wives, the pair barely ever traveled or even appeared in public together.
Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila Shkrebneva were married in 1983. From the very beginning of Putin’s first presidency, his wife stayed out of the public eye, much to the frustration of a public used to the charismatic wives of former leaders Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev. In May 2000, five months after former President Boris Yeltsin named Putin his successor, Lyudmila had appeared in public less than half-a-dozen times and did not speak once. |
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