“She loved but was not loved.” Putin’s ex-wife found love with a man 20 years her junior

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Lyudmila Putin was married for three decades. They met in Leningrad, married in 1983, and moved to East Germany, where her husband was a KGB spy. As the Iron Curtain fell, they returned to Russia, where Vladimir Putin began his journey to becoming the most powerful person in the country.

Putin’s ex-wife – what is she doing now? She put her life back together

Rumors circulating in the Russian press suggested that Putin sent his wife to a convent. However, in June 2013, during a break in the Kremlin production of the ballet “La Esmeralda”, in which they participated, they announced to journalists that they were divorcing. Not much has been heard about Putin’s ex-wife since that information. Only some time later, in 2016, new details about Lyudmila’s life came to light.

It turned out that she was to live a lavish life in a European villa with her new husband, who is 20 years her junior. The Russian news portal revealed that the 58-year-old divorcee remarried to the then 37-year-old businessman Artur Ocheretny, head of the Center for the Development of Interpersonal Relations. The couple moved in together in Anglet in southwestern France, in an elegant villa from 1927. With the war unleashed by the Russian leader in Ukraine, the world’s eyes also turned to the fate of his ex-wife. Paintings in the national colors of Ukraine appeared on the gate of her housethe slogan “Glory to Ukraine” and insults directed at Vladimir Putin.

Currently Oczeretna wants to sell two apartments in the Lomas del Rey residential complex, located in the resort of Marbella in the south of Spain, whose value is EUR 2.2 million. The reason is supposed to be fears of EU sanctions.

Just before the wedding, Putin gave his fiancée a “fidelity test”

Nataliya Gevorkyan, Putin’s biographer, said shortly before the divorce was announced:

She was a woman who loved and was not loved.

Lyudmila in one of her statements mentioned that throughout the marriage she felt constantly tested and put to the test and various challenges. Just before the wedding, she was supposed to undergo a “fidelity test”. The incident took place when Lyudmila was walking alone, and at one point she was accosted by a strange man asking for her phone number. Shkrebniewa’s requests to meet her answered in the negative and dismissed the suitor.