During much of Putin’s rise to power, Lyudmila was by his side, though she maintained a low profile. Their marriage ended in 2013, with Putin announcing the separation on state television. Before and ...

Vladimir Putin is rumoured to have taken a break from warmongering and visited his mountain palace to ‘bathe in the blood of young deer’. The 72-year-old dictator is said to enjoy using ...

If that happens, he could, at least in part, be guided by the way Vladimir Putin dealt with his own looming term-limit problem following his election for a fourth term as Russian president in 2018.