Russians Friday in shock after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the 24-hour cable news network, he will divorce his wife, Lyudmila, just one month short of what will be their 30th wedding anniversary.
Many Russians are wondering, Mr. Putin to take what is the reason, the Russian leader, his wife divorcing highly unusual step. Last year, Russia's leaders to publicly abandon his official spouse Putin own personal hero, Peter the Great, more than 300 years ago.
Some experts say that Putin may just want in the end is what might have been for himself and Lyudmilla annoying novel. Some people say that his motives may be as kings and tsars in the past, to get rid of a wife in order to obtain an arbitrary number of identical new.
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"It is possible that he would remarry, why not?" Said independent political Information Center in Moscow, Alexei · Mukhin.
"If that was his reason, he may want to act quickly when the next presidential election cycle comes around in less than five years, he would like to have this relationship is firmly established," he said.
Choreographer Announcements
It is obvious that Putin and his wife were leading an independent life for some time, but nothing else has been known since the Kremlin clip tight lid on Russia's first family of any news. Many of the Soviet Union in the past, like his wife, Lyudmila Putina gray fuzzy things, appear in some public events with her husband - just over a year ago, the last time in his inauguration - but otherwise kept out stole the show.
This is obviously a pre-arranged and choreographed public message out Mr. and Mrs. Putin Grand Kremlin Theatre Thursday night, reporters at the state-owned Russian -24 network suddenly appeared in their private rooms, chatting rear, asked the president to an unthinkable question: "Do you appear in public, so rarely, there are rumors that you do not live together and they really do?"
This is a prompt Putin explained marriage yes.
"All my activities, my job is to connect all in the public eye and some people like this, some do not, but there are people who are totally inconsistent with it," he added, Lyudmila had "stood watch "with a capacity of nine years the first lady.
Putina Lady said: "This really is our common decision." "I really do not like living in the public eye and air travel is very difficult for me, difficult for us to see each other."
At the end of the interview, Putin said a word, apparently designed to quell the endless rumors, about Putin's two adult daughters, Maria and Ekaterina, who has not appeared in public for many years whereabouts.
"Lyudmila Alexandrovna mention our children," Putin said an official in the Russian style, with his wife's name and parent.
"We love so much, we are proud of them, they do grow up, their lives unfold the way they got their education and life in Russia on a permanent basis in Russia," he added.
Political consequences?
Experts say that Putin is running a slight political risk, because he has to lead Russia in the past year in a conservative direction and aligned more closely with the Kremlin than the Orthodox tsar era. Church does not divorce smiling. However, most Russians seem likely to sympathize with their president: In 2012, Russia has the world's highest divorce rate in 5 divorces per 1,000 people.
Famous Russian political sociologist Olga Kryrshtanovskaya, said that despite the clearly scripted way Putin announced the divorce, it may not hurt his image among most Russians.
"For us, this is an amazing event," she said. "From a political point of view, this is an extraordinary thing and it looks like the authorities are trying to become more open, a man's face. Democratic practices can be reached in this way, even through such a strange occurrence as president Divorce. "
"And has become clear that people do not understand, we all thought he was a man like all of us," she said.
"But if there is a second act, he intends to do something, such as the re-marriage, attitudes can be changed," added Ms. Kryshtanovskaya. "There have been some time in his life rumors of other women, if he decides to get married again, especially to a young woman, and may rub a lot of fans Putin Putin's supporters tend to be conservative the wrong way, and many of them are her husband who has been divorced by a middle-aged woman, I suspect he dare to get married again. "
Putin's allegations and rumors were handed over by the pro-Kremlin United Russia party Duma deputy as a new career, the former Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva was circling around. In 2008, a Moscow tabloid Moskovsky Korrespondent, citing St. Petersburg wedding planning, he said, he was hired as the president and his wife divorced, Ms. Putin and Kabayeva prepare a luxurious wedding. Within days, newspapers plea, bankruptcy and closed.
"Everyone is talking about this, because divorce is not in our political culture, even though it is common for society as a whole" that the opposition weekly "News" editor Andrei Kolesnikov said.
"Putin may only reason for doing this agreement, so that he can finally appear alone in public places, a question mark hanging on him, he might just want to feel more freedom, while his wife may be too want to be free, there may be a Some other changes in his life, but it is still too early to comment on that. "
 



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