It was assumed that she had, like so many others, died of starvation. Her name was Maria Ivanovna Shelomova Putina – the mother of Vladimir Putin. Yet – according to one account – on that ...

Maria Putina has referred several times in the media and books to the childhood of "Volodia". She claimed that her biological son was not born in 1952 (as his official biography indicates), but in ...

The Treasury Department's announcement includes two of the largest Russian banks as well as Maria Putina and Katerina Tikhonova, the leader's two daughters resulting from his first marriage to ...