Now that he’s officially back in charge, Russian President Vladimir Putin is going after his opponents with a vengeance. But it’s not just Western diplomats he’s locking horns with these days — it’s also Moscow’s most famous gossip columnist.
Bozhena, as she calls herself because she thought the name Yevgenia too boring, is an unexpected heroine in the uprising against Vladimir Putin. The president’s system has brought Russia stability and economic growth — as well as fame and fortune for Bozhena herself. As Moscow’s most famous gossip columnist, Bozhena (the "divine”) Rynska wrote for the pro-government newspaper Izvestia for years, worked as a lingerie model and fostered close ties with the rich and the beautiful.
"I had affairs and entertained myself,” she recounts at a bar in a luxury hotel in Moscow. "Then I woke up because the Kremlin is in the process of destroying Russia.”Bozhena ...