Personal Life
Safoyev was married and divorced in 2001. In 2003, while he was the foreign minister, new allegations surfaced about his possible marriage to Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov and a Harvard graduate, diplomat and businesswoman, and President Karimov's alleged plans for his replacement by Safoyev. Gulnara Karimova was also divorced with two kids. However, the allegations were refuted and fact of marriage was denied by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and BBC which published the story was accused by then the First Deputy Minister Vladimir Norov as an intrusion in personal lives of Safoyev and Karimova.
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