Vladimir Putin his wife Lyudmila Putina stood side by side to make an awkward announcement on Russian television Thursday:  They’re getting divorced.

The Russian President and his wife had been married for 30 years and have two daughters.

But the demands of the Presidency’s high publicity lifestyle were apparently too much for Mrs. Putin to handle.  She also said she doesn’t like to fly on airplanes.  The two had apparently been living apart for some time.

Vladimir Putin publicly has been a champion of so-called “traditional values”, but has been romantically linked to former Russian Rhythmic Gymnast Alina Kabaeva, some 30 years his junior (the tabloid that broke the story in 2008 was promptly shut down by the government).  Putin himself has never confirmed the relationship, and it remains to be seen if Kabaeva would be more compatible with Putin’s high-action lifestyle of skiing down volcanoes, stunning tigers and polar bears, cavorting with dolphins, practicing Judo, outliving his critics and enemies, and posing without his shirt.

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