She was asked three times whether she wanted to marry 47-year-old police chief Nazhud Guchigov – who already has another wife – before finally and reluctantly responding yes. The marriage has provoked outrage in Russia, fuelled by Moscow’s child rights commissioner, Pavel Astakhov, who defended the wedding by saying that Caucasian women ‘are all shrivelled with wrinkles by the age of 27’. He later apologised for his comments.