Russian President Vladimir Putin
"disappeared" from the political scene in recent days to attend
to the birth of his son by 32-year-old ex-Olympic gymnast Alina
Kabaieva, said Swiss tabloid Blick on Friday, citing Ukrainian
weekly magazine Novoe Vremya.
Putin, whose divorce from his wife of 30 years, Liudmila,
was finalised last year, is said to have fathered two other
children with Kabaieva, a rumor that both Putin and the former
State Duma deputy from Putin's United Russia party deny.
The tabloid said that Sant'Anna, the Swiss clinic in Canton
Ticino where Kabaieva gave birth, is well-known among the
Russian upper crust, and that Putin's friend Silvio Berlusconi
may have recommended the clinic, given that it's the one where
Berlusconi's daughter Barbara gave birth in 2009.
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