LYUDMILA PUTIN
THEN
LYUDMILA PUTINA
March 26, 2000
at her polling place in Moscow
Here she stands by her man, Vladimir Putin (or rather, walks by him) on that day in 2000 of Putin's first election as president; here she stands with him at the heights at the 2006 G-8 summit in St. Petersburg.
The last reported sighting of the Putins together was in 2010 (see here).
Today Putin's official website leads its coverage of the election by announcing that "Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila vote at in [sic] the Russian presidential elections." (The Russian version is here.) Official photographs of the event, showing the Putins together (standing, and sitting while he marks his ballot) can be found here.
There is a video of the president-to-be-again casting his ballot here (along the way he drops one of the two ballot papers; retrieves it himself). Later he celebrates his victory, and cries (tears up?).
Just for comparison (ballot boxes and all), here is Boris Yeltsin voting in his first Russian presidential election (June 12, 1991).
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