Wow, even Forbes got pulled into this old news story brought back from 2009 by a blogger.
The first link showing the source of the news for the cut is a six year old story from the Daily Mail.
This article was written January 6th, 2009.
Click on the Authors name in the original article. He has not written for the Daily Mail in over 5 years.
This was just announced on Jan 14th by Putin, This is a new story and just happened.