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Georgian woman claims she is Putin's real mother

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Moscow, Dec.6 (ANI): A Georgian woman has claimed that she is Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's real mother.

Vera Putina, 82, has claimed that Vladmir is the child she gave away at the age of ten, giving an account of an unhappy childhood, which is fiercely disputed by the Kremlin.The Telegraph reports that Vera Putina lives hand-to-mouth in rural Georgia. Her house sits on a dirt track in the village of Metekhi, about 12 miles from Gori that was occupied by Russian tanks this August during the conflict over the breakaway state of South Ossetia.

A tiny woman, with gnarled worker's hands, only Putina's strong cheekbones and deep-set, piercing blue eyes are suggestive of who she claims she is."I used to be proud of having a son who became President of Russia. Since the war I am ashamed."

Since Russian-born Putina saw Vladimir Putin on the television in 1999, she has been convinced he is her estranged son.

Backed up by other residents in Metekhi, Putina claims he lived in the village between the ages of two-and-a-half and ten before being sent back to his grandparents in Ochyor, Russia.Records in the archives of Metekhi's closest town, Caspi, indicate that a Vladmir Putin was registered at Metekhi school, 1959-1960, stated nationality: Georgian.

Putina's account is at odds with the Kremlin's version of events and Dmitry Peskov, Mr Putin's spokesman, yesterday dismissed the claims: "The story is not true. It does not correspond to reality at all."

Putin states in his autobiography that he was the sole surviving son of a factory worker and ex-serviceman of the Soviet Navy, and spent his early years in a rat-infested communal apartment in St. Petersburg.

Putin claims his paternal grandfather, Spiridon Putin, had been Vladimir Lenin's and Joseph Stalin's personal cook and both of his parents died of cancer, his mother in 1998 and his father in 1999. (ANI)

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