Putin's Ex-Wife Scrubbed From Kremlin Biography

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Source: Moscow Times

Any mention of President Vladimir Putin's former wife has been removed from his official biography on the Kremlin website in what a spokesman said signified that the first couple's divorce was now complete. "This means that the divorce has taken place," presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, Itar-Tass reported Tuesday.

The president's official biography that previously mentioned his wife, Lyudmila, now only lists their daughters Maria, 28, and Yekaterina, 27. However, a longer description of the president's life on another page of the Kremlin website still has a section devoted to his ex-wife, with no mention of the divorce.

The couple announced in a joint interview on state television last June that they were divorcing after nearly 30 years of marriage. The removal of Lyudmila Putina's name for the president's biography prompted some Russians to remark wryly that history might have to be rewritten. "Lyudmila is history. Whole epochs will now be thrown out of our history textbooks," said a reader on Ekho Moskvy radio's website.

New standardized history textbooks proposed for Russian schools last year make no mention of Putin's most prominent opponents such as former Yukos chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky and late Kremlin insider Boris Berezovsky, and critics worry that schoolchildren will soon be instructed in a single Kremlin-approved version of events, similar to Soviet-era textbooks.

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[brooklynite]

1. Bring on the photoshopping of the wedding pix

[olddad56]

2. Damm, I wish I could get rid of my ex that easily.

[Enrique]

3. this is the last straw

the bombing will begin in 5 minutes.

[kitt6]

4. WTF?

What does this have to do with??????

[dipsydoodle]

5. Maybe his current girlfriend did the editing.

[Bosonic]

6. And in revenge she dons Ukrainian colors

(or possibly Swedish)

[Cha]

16. Tweet.. Putin's ex wife Liudmila subtly trolling her former husband by wearing colours of #Ukraine..

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[Doctor_J]

7. Unperson'd

AH, the old soviet system is still part of life there.

[kiranon]

8. Did he scrub his children also? Very strange to scrub his

long time marriage from his biography. The old Soviet Union is coming back in terms of changing history to serve the moment at hand.

[cosmicone]

9. Putin's new squeeze is hawttt !!

http://static.kienthuc.net.vn:81/Images/Contents/hoangthao/20130607/3-7-6-nguoitinhPutin.jpg

[Ecumenist]

11. DAFUQQ? SHE looks YOUNG enough to be his GRANDDAUGHTER!!

Is this REAL??!!

[DavidDvorkin]

13. A former rhythmic gymnast

at the Olympic level, I think.

Those girls are very ... flexible.

[ozone_man]

15. She's lovely. n/t

[Benton D Struckcheon]

10. Someone will be along soon to say this is the result of NATO expansion. n/t

[Igel]

12. It's the West's foot in the door.

Of something or other.

[UpInArms]

14. you mean Putin was married to someone at some time

(amnesiac serum kicking in)

[Cha]

17. Putin rules the propaganda. It never happened. Only.. she did..

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[Turbineguy]

18. Let's hope

she's not too put out about it.