The Russian website and newspaper Moskovsky Korrespondent has been closed today after it broke the news that the Russian President Vladimir Putin Secretly divorsed his wife and is getting ready to get married with a gymnastic beauty Russian gymnast Alina Kabayeva.
Today meeting with Italian elected PM Berluskoni in Sardinia Putin said his divorce rumors and upcoming marriage stories are lies, however, also added that certain things are private and should not be crossed.
But it's interesting that the website of Moskovsky Korrespondent is brought down and the entire content is taken off. This invisible hand has also closed the newspaper reports Newsru making a reference on Interfax.
Artem Artemev, talking to Interfax said that they made the decision to temporarily stop the publication due to it not being profitable.
Earlier today reported by RFERL
"Moskovsky korrespondent," citing a source close to the director of a company allegedly participating in a closed tender to organize the wedding, claims that the ceremony will be held in St. Petersburg's Konstatinovsky Palace, where Putin hosted the Group of Eight summit in 2006.
The rumors have been the talk of Russia since their publication earlier this month. Putin's alleged affair with the attractive young gymnast, who has posed nearly nude for a number of magazines, certainly clashes with the churchgoing, family man image that he has carefully cultivated.
Putin addressed the issue for the first time after he was asked about the stories during a news conference with Italian Prime Minister-elect Silvio Berlusconi on the Italian island of Sardinia on April 18.
The Russian leader squarely rejected the allegations, stressing that he did not approve of such meddling in his private life.
"Of course, society has the right to know about the lives of public figures, but even in this case there are certain limits," he said. "There is a private life that nobody has the right to interfere with."
Kabayeva's spokeswoman has also denied the rumors.
But the editor in chief of "Moskovsky korrespondent," Grigory Nekhoroshev, defends the article. He says reporters spent weeks checking the facts and that the public has a right to know everything -- whether true or false -- about their president.
"I am 100 percent convinced that people should know this information about leaders," he tells RFE/RL's Russian Service. "They should be aware even of rumors so that a public discussion can take place."
Source: RFERL
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