In addition, many people think that all that extra brainpower leads to eccentric or quirky behavior. And although geniuses are fairly easy to spot, defining exactly what makes one person a genius is a little trickier. Figuring out how that person became a genius is harder still. There are two big things that make it difficult to study genius:
In 2008, a Russian tabloid newspaper was closed down by its owner after it ran a story on the rumoured relationship. Mr Putin divorced Lyudmilla, his wife of 30 years, in 2013. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his ex-wife Lyudmila Putina (Getty) Friday's unconfirmed reports about a new child were the latest in a series of rumours to circulate since Mr Putin, 62, cancelled a planned trip to Kazakhstan on Wednesday.
The Putins' wedding on 28 July 1983. In her early adult years Lyudmila was a flight attendant for the Kaliningrad branch of Aeroflot. She met Vladimir Putin in Leningrad, and they married on 28 July 1983. The couple had two daughters, Maria (born 1985) and Yekaterina (Katja) (born 1986 in Dresden, East Germany). From 1990 to 1994 Lyudmila taught German at the Department of Philology of Leningrad State University.