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The family of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has served in office from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012, comes from the Russian peasantry. Spiridon Putin (1879–1965) was a cook in Gorky (now known as Nizhny Novgorod), his son Vladimir Spiridonovich (1911–1999) participated in World War II, and grandson Vladimir Vladimirovich (born 1952) made a career in the KGB and the FSB, before being ...
In French, Russian president Vladimir Putin's surname is spelled "Poutine", with the two having identical pronunciation. [ 138 ] [ 139 ] The similarity has been a source of confusion; in commenting on the Talking to Americans prank on Bush, Washington Post columnist Al Kamen mistakenly believed that Mercer's fictional Jean Poutine was a ...
Putin (Russian: Путин) is a masculine Russian surname. Its feminine counterpart is Putina (Russian: Путина). Notable people with the surname include: Igor Putin (born 1953), a Russian businessman and politician, cousin of Vladimir Putin; Lyudmila Putina (born 1958), the former wife of Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin girlfriend In 2008, Putin, then 56, responded to reports he had allegedly divorced his wife for a 24-year-old Olympic gold medal gymnast named Alina Kabaeva. Kabaeva was once known ...
After receiving threats from confused customers, La Maison de La Poutine, a restaurant chain in France, wants to make clear that its name has nothing to do with Vladimir Putin.
Putin's mother was a factory worker, and his father was a conscript in the Soviet Navy, serving in the submarine fleet in the early 1930s. During the early stage of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, his father served in the destruction battalion of the NKVD.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Joe Biden has shown he is "a pro-Russian candidate being controlled by the Kremlin," Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman joked on Friday, after the U.S. president misspoke and ...
Sergei Roldugin is a godfather to Maria Vorontsova (b. 1985), Vladimir Putin's older daughter. [9] [10] [11] Roldugin introduced Putin's daughters both Katya and Masha to playing the piano and the violin. [12] He has been friends with Putin since the late 1970s. [9] [13] In March 2016 The Guardian described Roldugin