Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday denied media reports he was about to marry Russian Olympic gymnast Alina Kabayeva.
News media and Internet sites had reported that Putin had secretly divorced his wife, Lyudmila, and planned to marry the 24-year-old Olympic gymnast.
"In what you said, there is not one word of truth," Putin said when asked about the reports by a journalist at a news briefing with Italy's Prime Minister-elect Silvio Berlusconi.
Putin, 55, has cultivated a tough-guy, manly image during his eight years in the Kremlin, posing for photos aboard fighter jets, firing weapons, fighting black-belt judo and fishing bare-chested in the Siberian wilderness.
Source: www.iol.co.za
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