AT HOME WITH THE PUTINS…. “

My husband is a vampire,” says Lyudmila Putin, the president’s wife. “His two green eyes are like two hungry lurking predators…. But he is just the right man for me–he doesn’t drink and he doesn’t beat me.” This oddly affectionate tribute, reports United Press International, comes from a book published in Germany by Lyudmila’s self-styled “best friend.” The same source quotes Vladimir Putin: “Anyone who can spend three weeks with Lyudmila deserves a monument.”