Sputnik/Aleksey Nikolskyi/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. The couple met in Leningrad when she was a flight attendant, and they had two daughters, Mariya and Yekaterina. Since he divorced his wife Lyudmila, rumors have swirled around Putin’s personal life. MOSCOW – The Kremlin has asked some Russian companies to... 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News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services.VLADIMIR Putin is one of the most powerful politicians in the world as the President of Russia.Here's everything we know about the 67-year-old and his personal life?Vladimir Putin has been President of Russia twice - previously from  2000 to 2008, before being re-elected in 2012.Between the two terms, he served as Russia's Prime Minister.Technically, the 67-year-old has been in power at the top of the Russian government for 20 years.His first stint in a position of power came in  1999, after the then-Russian president Boris Yeltsin dismissed his Prime Minister and promoted former KGB officer Vladimir Putin in his place.In December 1999, Yeltsin resigned, appointing Putin president until official elections were held in March 2000.He was elected to his first term with 53 per cent of the vote, and was re-elected for a follow-up four year term in 2004.Due to constitutional term limits, Putin was prevented from running for the presidency in 2008.Instead he was appointed prime minister by his successor, Dmitry Medvedev, allowing him to maintain a primary position of influence for the next four years.Putin was re-elected to the presidency in March 2012 and later won a fourth term, keeping him in power until the present day.The Russian leader was born in Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) on October 7 1952, making him 67 years old.The President was the youngest of three sons born to Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin and his wife Maria Ivanovna Putina, and his birth was preceded by the deaths of his two brothers Viktor and Albert.Putin married Lyudmila Shkrebneva on July 28 1983, and they lived together in East Germany from 1985 to 1990.They have two daughters, Mariya Putina, born April 28 1985 in Leningrad, and Yekaterina Putina, born August 31 1986 in Dresden, East Germany.On June 6 2013, Putin announced that their marriage was over, and on April 1 2014, the Kremlin confirmed that the divorce had been finalised.Lyudmila was educated as a linguist and graduated from the branch of Spanish language and philology of the Department of Philology of Leningrad State University in 1986.In her youth, Lyudmila was a flight attendant for the Kaliningrad branch of Aeroflot, before going on to teach German at the Department of Philology of Leningrad State University from 1990 to 1994.After Vladimir's rise to political power, Lyudmila maintained a low profile on the Russian political stage, generally avoiding the limelight except as required by protocol and restricting her public role to supportive statements about her husband.Her children were withdrawn from the German School in Moscow and no photographs of them have ever been published by the Russian media.The Putin family have never issued an official family portrait either. Alles über ★ Wladimir Putin ★ - aktuelle News alle Bilder mit großem Steckbrief (Alter, Größe) das große Star-Profil von Wladimir Putin - jetzt informieren und mitreden! Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reputed lover may have given birth to twin boys. They are not involved in business or politics. They met in Leningrad, married in 1983 and moved to East Germany, where her husband was a KGB spy. Vladimir Putin was married to Lyudmila Shkrebneva, a former Aeroflot flight attendant, for more than 30 years. (From left) Viktor, Alexander Pugachev, Maria and Ekaterina Putin She won Gold at the 2004 Athens Games and Bronze at the 2000 games in Sydney.Coming from an athletic family - her father was a professional footballer - afforded her a high rank in Russian society. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, 63, seems to have a new young girlfriend, now that his old girlfriend is a mother of three. My Russian sources say he … "Ms Kabaeva once confessed she had met a man who "I love very much", declining to name him.She added: "Sometimes you feel so happy that you even feel scared." If the question assumes marriage in the traditional sense of a court-registered marriage, most likely Putin is not currently married. (From left) Alexander, Viktor Pugachev, Maria, Ekaterina Putin The pair are said to have had at least one child together and were married in secret. Their daughters, Katerina and Maria, both in their early 30s, are not involved in politics and have stayed firmly out of the limelight. Ekaterina and Maria Putina (in the middle), Viktor (second from left) and Alexander Pugachev (right) with pop group Strelki