Vladimir Putin's daughter 'to marry the son of South Korean admiral'

[European blood]

Vladimir Putin's youngest daughter is to wed her long-time Korean boyfriend who is the son of a retired South Korean admiral, it has been claimed.

Mr Putin has gone to great lengths to ensure that photographs of his two daughters, Yekaterina, 24, and Maria, 25, stay out of the public domain.

The assertion that Yekaterina is to marry – made by an authoritative South Korean newspaper – threatens to undermine the Russian prime minister's painstaking efforts to keep his own personal life and that of his two daughters out of the limelight.

He has also angrily denied repeated allegations that his marriage to Ludmila, the mother of his two daughters, ended some time ago.

But the English-language JoongAng Daily newspaper said it had learnt that Yekaterina would soon marry the son of former Admiral Yoon Jong-Gu who worked at the South Korean embassy in Moscow in the 1990s.

It said that Mr Putin had initially been opposed to he marriage but had warmed to his prospective son-in-law after meeting him in person.

The 26-year-old man's father was quoted as urging the newspaper not to report the news.

"The couple will make an official announcement about their marriage," he said. "Please do not report their marriage now."

The paper said the couple would live in South Korea after the wedding and that they had known each other since 1997 when they met at a dance organised at a Moscow international school. It suggested they had both recently been studying at universities in the United States and had dated in Russia, America and South Korea.

Mr Putin's spokesman denied the report, saying it did "not correspond with reality". Even though Mr Putin is Russia's most famous living politician, ordinary Russians know next to nothing about his daughters and would not recognise them if they saw them in the street.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...n-admiral.html

[research_centre]

I bet her father is a very proud man.

NOT.

[Joe McCarthy]

I bet her father is a very proud man.

NOT.

Why wouldn't he be?

[Aces High]

I bet Putins father is spinning in his grave.

[research_centre]

I bet Putins father is spinning in his grave.

You and me both.

[Incal]

Poor father, it must be a disgrace to know his son is marrying a russian woman.

[beaver]

I bet Putins father is spinning in his grave.

Yes, Putin has turned out to be not so honest black colonel as Pinochet e.g.

[Moonbird]

Getting grandchildren who look almost fully Korean (as mixed Korean-White children usully do) can't be a happy future scenario for an aging white couple. People want to see and recognize themselves in their children and grandchildren.

[Joe McCarthy]

Getting grandchildren who look almost fully Korean (as mixed Korean-White children usully do) can't be a happy future scenario for an aging white couple. People want to see and recognize themselves in their children and grandchildren.

What evidence is there that Vladimir Putin holds racialist-type views?

[research_centre]

What evidence is there that Vladimir Putin holds racialist-type views?

There isn't, and that wasn't her point.