Career
The woman"s claims contrast with Putin"s official biography, which states that Putin"s parents died before he became president The Telegraph 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". Details of the first ten years of Putin"s life are scarce in his autobiography, especially when compared with other world leaders."
Putina lives in the village of Metekhi, about 18 kilometers from Gori, Georgia.
A "Vladmir Putin" was registered at Metekhi school in 1959-1960.
Records show that his stated nationality is Georgian. Putina married a Georgian soldier Giorgi Osepahvili.
Her husband pressured her to abandon Putin. Through her contacts, she learned that Putin had become a Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) officer
In 1999 she spotted Putin in television
Putina says 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 says she is ready to do deoxyribonucleic acid tests.
Russian journalist Artyom Borovik"s plane crash coincided with the documentary he was making about Putin"s childhood, including a report about Vera Putina.
Italian journalist Antonio Russo was reportedly also interested in Vera Putina before he was murdered.
