Putin 'mistress' denies having love child

NEW YORK: Russian PM Vladimir Putin's alleged mistress has denied giving birth to their love child, saying the baby is actually her nephew.

"My sweet little nephew Arsenio has joined my ever-extending family in Moscow. Everyone, of course, thinks that he is my son (laughs)," Alina Kabayeva, a former Olympics rhythmic gymnast, was quoted by the New York Post as saying. Without referring to Putin, the 27-year-old Uzbekistan-born beauty has dropped hints about her love of powerful men.

"There are men that are afraid of strong women. Of course I know men that will always be stronger and higher in power then me," she was quoted by the US newspaper as telling the Russian Vogue magazine.

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