The Kremlin has confirmed Russian president Vladimir Putin has finalised the divorce from his wife of 30 years Lyudmila following the couple’s sudden split last summer.

There's something inexplicably adorable about Michael D Higgins queuing up to get some cash from the hole in the wall…

Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila have announced they are divorcing.

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin, formerly head of the KGB, arrived in Britain yesterday to a welcome fit for a tsar. At the start of the first state visit by a Russian leader since 1874, when Tsar Alexander II came to Britain, President Putin basked in the British sunshine.

President Vladimir Putin today dismissed media allegations that Russian intelligence experts had misled him over the US war in Iraq by exaggerating Saddam Hussein’s military capability.