French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s amazing act of lightning divorce and lightning marriage during his term of office may be "unprecedented" in world politics, but it may not be "no one came after him". According to Russian media speculation, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who will step down in May, may have divorced Lyudmila Pujinna, the 50-year-old "first lady", and he will soon have a new partner-alina kabayeva, who is known as Russia’s "number one sexy athlete".
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Alina kabayeva, known as Russia’s "number one sexy athlete"
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Putin and alina kabayeva are together
Putin "divorced two months ago"
According to the British media reported on April 17th, the Russian newspaper Moscow Reporter recently reported this "gossip" which is getting more and more popular in Moscow: the marriage between Putin and lyudmila ended two months ago, but they have not officially announced it.
Putin and lyudmila met in 1980, when lyudmila was a flight attendant of Kaliningrad United Airlines, and he was already working in the KGB, but it was a long time before lyudmila knew. On July 28th, 1983, 31-year-old Putin and 25-year-old lyudmila held a simple wedding in the "floating boat" restaurant of a cruise ship in neva river. After marriage, they have two lovely daughters.
Putin has been keeping a low profile in his private life since he became president. lyudmila only dutifully performed his duties as the "first lady", but the public knew little about his married life, and there had never been any reports about the disagreement between the president and his wife before. However, this divorce rumor is also "for every reason". When Putin received US President Bush and his wife Laura in Sochi, the Black Sea resort, on April 6, the public found that lyudmila, as the "first lady", did not appear.
Gymnastics beauty has now entered the political arena.
Kabayeva, who is rumored to be the "Prime Minister’s wife", is only 25 years old, 31 years younger than Putin. Born in Uzbekistan, this gymnast was rated as the sexiest athlete in Russia in 2002, beating tennis beauty Kournikova and gymnastics "ice beauty" Khorkina. Although Kabayeva’s sports career is not long, her record is brilliant. From the European Championship to the World Championships and even the Olympic Games, her appearance often makes her opponents feel desperate. After winning the individual all-around gold medal in rhythmic gymnastics at the Athens Olympic Games in 2004, Kabayeva announced her official retirement. At that time, it was rumored that she would marry a captain police officer of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs named Presnie Mshelini Charvas.
In December 2007, Kabayeva once again attracted the attention of the world as a new political star. In the Russian State Duma election at that time, while the United Russia Party led by President Putin successfully won the majority of seats in the State Duma, three former Olympic champions, namely Kabayeva, Khorkina and Zhulova, and five gorgeous beauties, including Natalia, a female boxer who used to be a bodyguard, and Svetlana ZAKHAROVA, the chief ballet dancer of the Moscow Grand Theatre, were elected as members of the State Duma as United Russia Party party member, and were praised as "Putin Baby" by the western media.