Western press about Putin's divorce

Western publications are discussing sensational news about the divorce of Vladimir Putin.

So, the New York Times expresses bewilderment: the political risk that Putin may encounter as a result of his unprecedented decision seems to the newspaper unreasonably high. The divorce of Vladimir and Lyudmila can immediately hit the rating of the head of state. Despite everything, Russia was and remains a very conservative country and a primacy of family values. The first persons of the state are never bred here at all. The Orthodox Church also refers to the divorce, which the president never hid his tendency to the dogmas. Finally, writes NYT, divorce can break a significant part of Putin's “nuclear electorate”. The correct, stately and business president, as well as him emphasized the modest spouse, liked the middle -aged women who have been stably voting for Putin for more than ten years. Such a step can seriously disappoint them.

Time magazine states that the news of the president’s divorce became a sensation, although they have known the Putin that Putin had little. The magazine draws attention to Putin's manner of communicating with his wife. The president turned to her by the name of patronymic and you. On the one hand, such an intonation reads a kind of “friendly ironic relief”. However, we must not forget, writes Time that in Russia, where emotions play a significant role in all areas of life, such appeals are usually applied to senior or superiors.

The liberal weekly New Republic publishes the column of Julia Joffe, designed in a very critical tone in relation to the Russian leader. Joff writes that in all history the question of money is most concerned about. In Moscow, they say that the Russian oligarchs today only work as oligarchs, being the living offshores of the richest man in the country, whose official income amounted to only some 177 thousand dollars in 2012. Where will this money go? The President-Tsar now decided to divorce. It is clear that his unloved wife will not receive a hundredth share of his condition.

Wall Street Journal is surprised that Putin announced a divorce at a time when a cult of family values ​​is officially planted in his country, designed to resolve the issue of poor birth rate. The newspaper publishes on the website an expert interview with the head of his Moscow Bureau. Journalists, among other things, recall that Putin has become the only Russian leader since the time of Peter the Great, who divorced him at the head of state. Before that, everything happened. The kings openly lived in two families. Stalin brought his own wife hope to suicide. The spouses of Brezhnev and Khrushchev were inconspicuous keepers of the hearth. The Soviet people literally enraged the excessively noticeable and arrogant Raisa Gorbachev and touched the modest Nina Yeltsin. But there were no divorces. In this regard, Putin really became a “pioneer”. Apparently, in Russia, something really has seriously changed.

The British Guardian considers the interview a staged one, but adds that Lyudmila Putin, who lives alone at the presidential dating near the Estonian border, still could not overcome her self -doubt. And she looked almost a nun. Putin, who was always very jealous of attempts to invade his personal life, himself became a hostage to the Kremlin games in secrecy. Making Brutal Macho from the head of Russia, the Kremlin’s propagandists were silent for any information about his family, as a result, a wave of gossip was born. The British press believes that divorce is only the first act of the performance. Soon it is worth expecting the appearance next to the youth president of the new life partner.

Obtained, as usual, and numerous Internet players. One of them has already posted on the Match.com dating site a questionnaire about the search for half, allegedly compiled by the President of Russia. Putin appears here under the nickname Russian Teddy Bear. The leader of the country confirms the statement of divorce and turns to lonely ladies, saying that "he is again at the fair of suitors."