A woman who has claimed for years that she is the secret mum of Russia's despotic leader, Vladimir Putin, has died at the age of 97.
For decades, Vera Putina has claimed that Putin was her son, who was conceived during an affair with a married man, something that he’s completely denied.
She claimed that she sent him away to Russia when he was just 10 years old, after he suffered a childhood of abuse and neglect from his stepdad, Georgi, while they lived in poor town called Metekhi, in Georgia.
