Vera Nikolaevna Putina was a woman who, in 1999, stated that Vladimir Putin is her son. 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.

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Putina lived in the village of Metekhi, a village in Kaspi Municipality, about 18 kilometers east of Gori, Georgia. Putina claimed that Putin’s father was a Russian mechanic, Platon Privalov, who got Vera pregnant while he was married to another woman. A “Vladimir Putin” was registered at Metekhi school in 1959–1960.

Today, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer, serving as the current president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999, as prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2012, and as president from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012

President, Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel before resigning in 1991 to begin a political career in Saint Petersburg. He moved to Moscow in 1996 to join the administration of prPresidentoris Yeltsin.