April 29, 2008
Rumors of a romance between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Alina Kabaeva, a former gymnast more than 30 years his junior, had been circulating in Moscow for months. But Moskovski Korrespondent was the first, and still the only Russian, newspaper to report the alleged affair. The newspaper's owner immediately closed the paper and forced its editor to resign.
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