Has Putin's Mother Died?
Putin's 'secret' mum has died at 97, sources in Georgia confirmed yesterday. Vera Putina claimed to have given birth to Putin after an affair with a married man. Putin has refused to confirm her story, and has claimed his parents were Vladimir Putin Snr. and Maria Shelomova, as is shown on his official documents.
Anonymous - the pic has been floating around on message boards for years
"...Vera died of “old age” in the capital Tbilisi and was buried in her native Metekhi on Tuesday."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22549603/putin-mum-dies-georgia-mother-russia/
"NEWS FROM GEORGIA
Vera Putina, the woman who called herself the mother of the Russian president, died there at the age of 97.
She lived in the village of Metekhi, not far from Gori. And here are the details.
Vera Putina was born in 1926 in the village of Terekhino, Ocher district, Perm region of the RSFSR. There she met, in her own words, a married man, by whom she bore a child, the future Vova Putin. Later the woman married a Georgian and moved to Metekhi with her son.
There was also a story about how the stepfather treated Vova badly, beat and abused him. As a result, the woman sent her son to her parents in Russia and hasn't seen him since. Vera Putina claimed that she immediately recognized her Vova as soon as she saw Vladimir Putin on television.
"Where they gave my son away, my parents never told me. My mother confessed before she died that Vova himself refused to let me know about his whereabouts. I couldn't look for him myself. If my husband found out, he would have killed me! And the fact that many years later Volodya got a job with the KGB was reported to me by one of our former neighbors from the village. Apparently, at that time, my son changed his patronymic and his date of birth from 50th to 52nd," said Vera Putina in one of her interviews.
Journalists, supporters of this version, pointed out that there is very little real information about Putin's childhood and almost no photographs.
But people in the village of Metekhi eagerly discussed this story, and each time it became more and more detailed. For example, the villagers say that for some time guards were posted at the woman's place, and they even allegedly took DNA samples. In the 2000s, groups of tourists visited the village to talk to the residents about "this.
Proponents of conspiracy theories pointed out that before Putin's first election, Artem Borovik, president of Sovershenno Sekretno, said that the story of Putin's childhood would be published soon. On March 9, 2000, Artem Borovik and Ziya Bazhaev died in a plane crash as they were about to fly to pick up Putin's childhood photos.
Polish writer and journalist Kristina Kurchab-Redlich spoke about this in an interview with Radio Liberty in 2013. She also claims that Wacha Ibragimov, who collected these facts about Putin's childhood and wrote the book, was killed.
And the Italian media once put forward a version that Italian Antonio Russo, who was killed in Tbilisi in mid-October 2000, was killed because he handed over a certain videotape from the village of Metekhi to the editorial office of Radio Radicale."
Why is Putin hiding the secret of his birth?
People have speculated, but since Putin is keeping it a secret, he hasn't told us why. Some speculate it is because his mother was not wed to his father. I do not speculate about it.