Experts used to reading the tea leaves of Putin’s official pageantry claim the film was the president’s present for his beloved on her 30th birthday on May 12. A week later, the 60-year-old Putin and Lyudmila split, after many years of hiding the truth of their failing marriage. “One more birthday present for his little Alina,” gossiped users on an Internet forum. Another analyst and Kremlin critic, Stanislav Belkovsky, speculated that “Putin wants to appear at the Olympic opening with a new wife.”