Friday Astrology Podcast: Vladimir Putin and his wife Alina Kabayeva

It is being reported in the news that 62-year-old Russian President Vladmir Putin (b. 10/7/52) was secretly married last September 2013 to 30-year-old Alina Kabayeva (b.5/12/83.)  (Read news story here.)

From the outside they couldn't be more different.  Putin is a serious, secretive, at times severe former KGB officer and world leader  while his new wife, Alina, is bright, cheerful, glamorous, and an an Olympic Gold Medalist.

Putin was married to his first wife Lyudmila (b. 1/6/58) from 1983 until  June 7, 2013 when they announced their separation on Russian television.  Three months later he is said to have married his second wife Alina who was born on May 12, 1983 (the same year Putin married his first wife.)

How did these two people end up together and what does their future hold?  What do their natal charts tell us?  Tune in and find out!

"In spring 2008, a newspaper called Moskovsky Korrespondent first published the story that Mr Putin had divorced Lyudmila and was to marry Miss Kabayeva that June.

It was the first time the subject had come to public attention.

The owner of the paper, Alexander Lebedev, once a KGB colleague of Putin’s who later bought the London Evening Standard and the Independent titles, insisted he knew nothing of the report ahead of publication as he had been away on a fishing trip and incommunicado.

The editor resigned, though others at the paper insisted: ‘We had information, and we reported it.’

Within days, Mr Lebedev had closed down the paper. He is now on trial in Moscow – and facing up to five years in jail after a fracas in a TV studio when he punched fellow businessman Sergei Polonsky."