Vera Nikolaevna Putina (russian: link=no, Вера Николаевна Путина; 6 September 1926 – May 2023) was a Georgian woman who, from 1999, stated that
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who holds the office of president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime min ...
("Vova") is her son. The woman's claims contrast with Putin's official biography, which states that Putin's parents died before he became president.
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The Telegraph
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'' concluded that while the woman might be simply wrong or part of a public relations effort, the story "identifies the holes in the known story of Mr Putin's past".
The official story is that Putin's parents were already in their forties when Putin was born, which leaves a gap of over ten years since the births of their previous sons, Albert and Viktor, neither of whom survived childhood. Details of the first ten years of Putin's life are scarce in his autobiography, especially when compared with other world leaders.
Putina was born in the village of Terekhino near
Ochyor
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,
Perm Krai
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in the
Soviet Union
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.
[ Krystyna Kurczab-Redlich ''Vova, Volodya, Vladimir. Secrets of Putin's Russia'', W.A.B. Publishing House, Warsaw, 2022 nd ed. , pp. 13-21.][ She lived in the village of Metekhi, a village in ]Kaspi Municipality
Kaspi ( ka, კასპის მუნიციპალიტეტი) is a district of Georgia, in the region of Shida Kartli. Given a ''District'' status within Transcaucasian SFSR in 1930. District center is Kaspi.
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, about 18 kilometers east of Gori, Georgia
Gori ( ka, გორი ) is a city in eastern Georgia, which serves as the regional capital of Shida Kartli and is located at the confluence of two rivers, the Mtkvari and the Liakhvi. Gori is the fifth most populous city in Georgia. Its name ...
.[The Geography of Genocide (2009). Allan D. Cooper. p. 227.] In December 1960, she delivered "Vova" back to his grandparents in Russia. Putina believed that the St. Petersburg-based "parents" referred to in Putin's official biography adopted her son from his grandparents.KGB
The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ...
officer. In 1999, she spotted Putin on television.[Vera Putina](_blank)
. Anticompromat. Putina said that Russian and Georgian people visited her village to pressure her to remain silent. A school teacher, who says she taught Putin, stated that she too had been threatened. Putina said she was ready to do DNA test
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s.Artyom Borovik
Artyom Genrikhovich Borovik (russian: Артём Ге́нрихович Борови́к, p=ɐrˈtʲɵm ˈɡʲenrʲɪxəvʲɪtɕ bərɐˈvʲik; 13 September 1960 – 9 March 2000) was a Russian investigative journalist and media magnate. He was ...
's plane crash coincided with the documentary he was making about Putin's childhood, including a report about Vera Putina.Yuri Felshtinsky
Yuri Georgievich Felshtinsky (russian: Юрий Георгиевич Фельштинский, born 7 September 1956 in Moscow) is a Russian American historian. Felshtinsky has authored a number of books on Russian history, including ''The Bol ...
and Vladimir Pribylovsky
Vladimir Valerianovich Pribylovsky (russian: Влади́мир Валериа́нович Прибыло́вский, 6 March 195613 January 2016) was a Soviet and Russian political scientist, historian, journalist, human rights activist, and a ...
''The Age of Assassins: The Rise and Rise of Vladimir Putin'', Gibson Square Books, London, 2008, , pages 116–121.Antonio Russo
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Biography Career
Born in 1961 in Chieti, (Abruzzo ...
was reportedly also interested in Vera Putina before he was murdered.Tbilisi
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, Georgia, in May 2023, at the age of 96.
References
External links
Putin's mama
– A documentary released in 2003.
Article by Anticompromat.
Article from Zeit Online
Vera Putina on Economist
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1926 births
2023 deaths
20th-century women from Georgia (country)
21st-century women from Georgia (country)
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People from Shida Kartli