From Russia with love? Not in Vladimir Putin's Russia. In recent days, President Putin decided to reaffirm the Russian-Syrian geopolitical marriage of convenience by following through on a sale of deadly arms to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, enabling Assad's army to slay his opponents with greater precision and resolve. Putin then decided to disavow his own marriage to Lyudmila Shkrebneva, his wife of nearly 30 years, announcing the divorce in as publicly humiliating a way as possible — his wife was standing by his side — for a reserved Russian woman.
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