*Well, the guy was a career spy, a teetotaler in top condition famous for his straitlaced discipline, but I guess the years of power went to his head. He's pulled a Berlusconi and a Sarkozy, and he has divorced while in office. Now I'm guessing that the apparently-ridiculous rumors about the torrid affair with the comely gymnast were true all along, and they're part-and-parcel with the rest of these guy-in-severe-midlife-crisis stunts that he's been pulling.
*Of such crooked timber as mankind, nothing straight was ever made.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/12/vladimir-putin-greek-urns-ridicule
