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, SIA reports citing The Moscow Times.
"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.
In the apparently planned but unscripted interview Thursday evening, Putin and his wife stood by themselves in the lobby of a Kremlin performance hall after watching the first act of a ballet together—a performance of "La Esmeralda," based on Victor Hugo’s novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"— and spoke to an off-camera interviewer for a total of about three minutes.
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