lyudmila

In Moscow, Lyudmila was hounded for her love affair with someone from the enemy camp.

It was these actions, says Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a veteran human-rights activist, that landed Mr Khodorkovsky in jail.

One of them was my mother, Lyudmila Bibikova, who had been fighting for six years to be allowed to wed my father, a Welsh academic.

"I wouldn't vote communist. I wouldn't want the long queues back, " said a young Muscovite who gave her name as Lyudmila.

Glossy lifestyle magazines are becoming politicised; one has even put Lyudmila Alexeeva, an 83-year-old human-rights activist, on its cover.

First, he fell in love with Lyudmila, the frail, brainy daughter of a senior communist purged in the 1930s.

Lyudmila's repeated applications for an exit visa were denied.

He is married to Lyudmila Alexandrovna Putina, with two daughters, Yekaterina and Maria.

the Ukrainian athlete Lyudmila BlonskaBlonska faces a lifetime ban. bye bye, stupid black sheep!

And Putin has been quoted in the past as telling a friend: 'Anyone who can spend three weeks with Lyudmila deserves a monument. '

Lyudmila adapted poorly to English life;