Marais na Viongozi Duniani: April 2014

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin is the President of Russia. He has been the President of Russia since 7 May 2012. He previously served as President from 2000 to 2008, and as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012.

Vladimir Putin was born on 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (modern day Saint Petersburg, Russia) to parents Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin (1911 - 1999) and Maria Ivanovna Putina (1911 - 1998).

Vladimir Putin graduated from the international Law branch of the Law Department of the Leningrad State University in 1975.

On 28 July 1983 Putin married Lyudmila Shkrebneva, at that time an undergraduate student of the Spanish branch of the Philology department of the Leningrad State University and a former Aeroflot flight attendant.

Vladimir Putin and his wife, Lyudmila announced on 6 June 2013, that their marriage was over.

Putin and his ex-wife Lyudmila Putina have two daughters, Mariya Putina born 28 April 1985 in Leningrad, Soviet Union and Yekaterina Putina born 31 August 1986 in Dresden, East Germany.

President Vladimir Putin and his ex-wife Lyudmila Putina

Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Portia Simpson Miller

Portia Simpson Miller is a Jamaican politician who has been Prime Minister of Jamaica since 5 January 2012. Previously she served as Prime Minister from March 2006 to September 2007. She is the leader of the People's National Party.

Portia Simpson Miller was born on 12 December 1945. She is married to Errald Miller, formerly CEO of Cable & Wireless Jamaica Ltd. on 29 May 2006. She does not have any children of her own.

Portia Simpson Miller and her husband Errald Miller

Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and Prince Harry

Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller with the Cuban Ambassador Bernardo Guanshe Hernandez (left) and Chinese Ambassador, Dong Xiajun (center)

Sunday, 6 April 2014

Dilma Rousseff

Dilma Vana Rousseff is the 36th President of Brazil. She has been the president of Brazil since January 1, 2011. She is the first woman to hold the office.

Dilma Rousseff was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, on 14 December 1947, to Bulgarian lawyer and entrepreneur Pedro Rousseff and school teacher Dilma Jane da Silva. She has 2 siblings Igor and Zana Lucia. Her elder brother Igor Rousseff is a lawyer and her younger sister Zana Lucia died in 1977.

Rousseff has been married twice. In 1968 she married journalist Claudio Galeno de Magalhaes Linhares. In the early 1970, Rousseff separated from Galeno and started dating Carlos Franklin Paixao de Araujo, her common-law husband for almost thirty years, with whom she had her only child, a daughter named Paula Rousseff de Araujo in 1976. The couple separated in 1994, and divorced in 2000.