PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Lyudmila Putin, wife of Russian President Vladimir Putin, signs the book at the Cervantes institute in Alcala de Henares 13 June 2000 in Madrid. Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila arrived in Madrid in the latest of a series of visits to western European capitals, where the Russian president will press the case for Russia's campaign in Chechnya and its own plans for a missile defence shield.

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/LASKI DIFFUSION Acting president of Russia, Vladimir Putin's wife, Ludmila Putin at school in St Peterburg, Russia, 1970.

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/LASKI DIFFUSION Wladimir Putin (prezydent Rosji) z zona i corka Masza, 1985 r. Vladirmir Putin (president of Russia ) with his wife and daughter Masha, 1985.

PHOTO: LASKI DIFFUSION/EAST NEWS Slub Wladimira Putina z Ludmila Szkrebnewa. Moskwa, 28 lipca 1983 Valdimir Putin married Lyudmila Shkrebneva on 28th of July 1983 in Moscow.