Revealed - Putin's ex-wife 'marries a toyboy' 21 years her junior
Vladimir Putin's ex-wife Lyudmila has married a man 21 years her junior, according to reports in Moscow.
The 58-year-old former Russian first lady appears on official records to have changed her name as if she is now the spouse of a known friend, dashing businessman Arthur Ocheretny, 37.
If she has wed him, it mirrors the Kremlin strongman's rumoured relationship with Olympic gymnast Alina Kabayeva, also in her 30s. But it is also in stark contrast to rumours that the former Aeroflot stewardess had found sanctuary by shutting herself away in an Orthodox Church nunnery.
There is no confirmation of the union as marriage certifcates are not public in Russia.
Putin and his wife announced their divorce in July 2013. Since then she all but disappeared from view while the Russian president forbids any questions about his private life although he made clear in 2014 that he was happy in his love life.
Ocheretny is reported as heading the Centre For Interpersonal Communications and Literature Education publishing house in Moscow, both of which have been previously associated with Lyudmila Putina.
His previous job was at a company called Art Show Centre, which organised parties for United Russia - Putin's political party - and energy giant Gazprom.
Putin is rumoured to be a partner of gymnast Kabayeva, now 32, while the president and his ex-wife have two daughters aged only a few years younger than Lyudmila's suspected new husband. Daughter Maria is now 30, and Ekaterina is 29.
In 2014, Putin told Russians he would not contemplate remarrying until Lyudmila was happily betrothed.
A German friend recalled Lyudmila describing Putin as a 'vampire' and there were unsubstantiated rumours of him having extra marital affairs as a KGB spy stationed in Dresden during the Cold War.
The Kremlin denied as 'complete nonsense' reports also emerging from Germany that Putin was a wife beater.
Putin was rumoured to have been a lover of Kabayev for six years before their divorce announcement but little proof exists that the speculation is true.
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