In Western publications, in particular in the New York Post and Paris Match, information was repeatedly published about the affair between gymnast Alina Kabaeva and Putin. In the French weekly, even the article “Alina Kabaeva – the second lady of Russia?” Was published. As a documentary proof of the fact that Kabayeva and Putin are close friends, the late Boris Nemtsov presented to the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow on January 31, 2011 a route sheet of the private jet Dassault Falcon 20 belonging to Comrade Putin, businessman Gennady Timchenko, performed on May 19, 2008. A private small plane took Kabaeva and several other friends of the president to Sochi (where Putin was). Kabaeva herself does not comment on her personal life.
