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alexnikolbackup) wrote2020-10-16 01:47 am
Учитесь подавать жёлтенькие материалы у Британской газетки "The Sun"
Когда на прошлой неделе газета "САН" рассказала о ее исчезновении, за этой историей следили по всему миру - за исключением России, где официальные СМИ хранили молчание.
В 2004 году она снялась полуобнажённой и в мехах для журнала "Максим". Фотограф Михаил Королов прокомментировал это событие: "Мне даже не нужно было ее убеждать. Она вела себя очень естественно. Она чрезвычайно сексуальна". Примерно в это же время Алина, лишенная шести медалей чемпионата мира из-за допинга, впервые встретилась с Путиным. Он был женат, а у нее были отношения с офицером полиции.
Alina, who is 31 years younger than Putin, fought back tears — and the acknowledgement did not follow.
She did not take the snub lying down, though. A TV interview that year may have made uncomfortable viewing for Putin.
Instead of unequivocally denying a relationship, her mannerisms — coquettish laughter and a hand nervously brushing through her hair — suggested the opposite.
She said she did not yet have children — but when asked if she had met someone she wanted to marry, Alina replied: “Yes, I have.”
The young audience broke into applause, with few viewers oblivious to the name no one dared mention.
On her 30th birthday, the main Russian TV channel ran a glowing documentary about her in which she finally directly addressed the claims that she had children by Putin — though again not naming him.
She said: “The whole country — and perhaps other countries too — write that I’ve got two or three children. Sadly, I don’t have them yet.”
Then, before mysteriously vanishing from sight for four months in May 2014, she hinted: “Everyone should have their own little secrets.”
She failed to deny reports of a relationship with Putin, saying: “I hope that some day the gossipers will calm down.”
Asked about the ring she wore at the Olympics, she unconvincingly replied: “I do not remember what ring I had on.”
Putin announced he was divorcing Lyudmila in 2013 — and his spokesman implied he had no time for another woman in his busy life.
“Look at Putin’s work schedule,” he said. “You will see that there is no place for family affairs.”
The spokesman dismissed rumours of a secret 2014 marriage to Alina as “an internet exercise to relieve boredom”.
But in 2015, Alina seemed to be living the life of a First Lady.
She was rumoured to have a fleet of limousines at her disposal — and during a visit to a Moscow cafe, a squad of machine gun-toting security guards accompanied her.
By then she had been appointed chair of Moscow’s most important pro-Kremlin TV and newspaper empire, National Media Group — despite having no experience.
It was quite the career move for a woman who had dabbled in modelling and singing — as well as holding a loyalist seat in the Russian parliament for seven years.
Suddenly she was able to ban unwanted stories about herself.
EXAGGERATED RESPECT
One veteran Western diplomat in Russia said in 2015: “Until recently she was a deputy in the State Duma (an MP in parliament). You could see the exaggerated respect she was given by other deputies.
“They, at least, believe she is close to the tsar.”
It was on October 11, 2018, that Alina was last seen in public — making a rare appearance to speak about training pre-school children in rhythmic gymnastics at a university in St Petersburg.
Three months later, a journalist from LifeNews tabloid — controlled by Alina — demanded of Putin at a press conference: “When will you get married? And with whom?”
The Kremlin strongman smiled and — appearing happy to have been asked the question — admitted: “As a decent person I will have to do this sooner or later.”
He did not mention who he would marry, but many took the question as either pressure from Alina or the start of a Kremlin PR campaign to reveal the identity of Russia’s First Lady.
Yet since then there has been little sign of Alina — despite the rumours she gave birth to twins in April 2019.
Shortly afterwards, obstetrician Leyla Adamyan, who works at the clinic where Alina allegedly gave birth, was awarded the order “For Merit to the Fatherland” — the country’s highest civilian medal — personally by Putin.
Journalist Anna Mongayt from independent channel TV Rain, called the award “an interesting coincidence”.
Perhaps Alina really is devoting herself to her babies in total privacy. But the silence with which her disappearance has been greeted in Russia is deafening.
Even Alina’s ex-gymnast pal Lyasan Utiasheva, 35, now a TV host and socialite with 4.9million followers on social media, says she cannot contact her former friend.
“It’s very hard to stay in touch,” she said. “But you’ve got to respect the position of any person, so you accept, love — and don’t want to dig into it.”
In the meantime, Alina’s friends — and the whole of Russia — are left wondering when or if she will ever emerge again.