On Thursday evening, the Russian public got the news of President Vladimir Putin‘s divorce the same way they have gotten every fact about his private life — spoon fed to them in tiny, measured and rather tasteless doses. The First Couple of the Kremlin made the announcement on national television while dressed in formal wear, with the stiffness of wax statuettes and the careful orchestration of the ballet they had just finished watching. It was meant to be a rare bit of candor from a man whose government has guarded his family affairs as closely as the codes in his nuclear suitcase. But it mostly served to reaffirm the rule Russians have long gotten used to: Everything about Putin’s life is a secret unless he dictates otherwise.
The scripted statement, which Putin made alongside his former wife Lyudmila, was broadcast on the Kremlin’s mouthpiece television channel, Rossiya 24. It was made to a lone reporter who acted as though she just happened to catch them walking out of a performance of the ballet Esmeralda at the Kremlin’s private theater. The reporter rattled off a few questions about what they had thought of the music, the dancing and the choreography, and Putin answered as if himself eager for her to get to the point. Finally, she did. “You show up in public so rarely, and there are rumors that you don’t live together. Is that true or not?” The couple exchanged a knowing glance before Putin stated. “Well, it is so.”..... [...]
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