As they emerged into the Moscow night, the pair were approached by a TV reporter from the state broadcasting network who asked whether it was true that they had separated. “That’s right,” the 60-year-old president replied perkily, while Ms. Putina, appearing faintly dazed, added: “Our marriage is over due to the fact that we hardly see each other.”
The episode was so clearly staged — so tasteless in its execution — it has merely fed the sense that something else is going on. “This is absolutely unprecedented,” said Olga Kryshtanovskaya, a commentator on Russian elites. “Over the past 200 years, no Russian leader has lifted the veil on his private life.”

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