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🇷🇺 President #Putin lays wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in #Moscow to commemorate the beginning of the Great Patriotic War

On 22 June 1941 — 85 years ago — Hitler invaded the USSR

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Photo of Vladimir Putin with his father Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin - year unknown

This may have been taken sometime in the late 1950s/early 1960s, but it is a terrific photo all the same:

Source via X: https://x.com/SMO_VZ/status/2069026432546668986

VLADIMIR PUTIN & His Father : Picture

Vladimir Putin has rarely spoken in emotional or effusive terms about his personal relationships, including with his father, Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin (a WWII veteran, factory worker, and survivor of severe wounds). He tends to be reserved about private family matters.

However, in his 2000 book *First Person* (based on interviews), his official Kremlin biography, a 2010 interview, and a 2015 column he wrote, Putin has shared respectful, admiring reflections on his father’s character, wartime heroism, resilience, and the family’s endurance through hardship.

He portrays a positive view rooted in respect, trust in his father’s stories, and pride in his ordinary working-class roots.

On his family background and roots:

“I come from an ordinary family, and this is how I lived for a long time, nearly my whole life. I lived as an average, normal person and I have always maintained that connection.”

He also recounted his parents’ early life factually and with a note of pride in their pre-war achievements:

“My father was born in St Petersburg in 1911. ... It was in Pominovo that my father met my mother, and they got married at the age of 17.”

“Before the war [World War II], my parents occupied half of the house in Peterhof and were very proud of the living standards they had achieved then. It wasn’t really much, but it seemed like an ultimate dream to them.”

On his father’s character and wartime stories Putin described : “My father was a silent man.”

He then recounted in detail the heroic sabotage mission his father survived (one of only four out of 28 men), including hiding in a swamp and breathing through a reed while German dogs passed overhead. Putin presented it as a story his father personally told him

In a 2010 interview (while Prime Minister) about his parents’ war experiences:

“My father had told me that he was with a partisan unit in the beginning of the war, but I later found out that in reality he was with a sabotage group. When I was President, I requested documents from the archives. My father was no longer alive then, had already passed away.
"Amazingly, the documents tallied with everything he had told me, right down to the tiniest detail.”

Putin noted that his parents avoided discussing the war much because it was painful (they had lost an older son during the Siege of Leningrad)

On his parents’ resilience and lack of hatred, In a May 2015 column Putin wrote for 'Russian Pioneer' magazine:

“There wasn’t a family who didn’t lose someone [during the war]. But there was no hatred toward the enemy, and that’s what was amazing.”

He recalled his father living with lifelong shrapnel fragments in his leg from wounds sustained in combat. The column frames his parents’ generation (including his father) with admiration for their endurance, lack of bitterness, and humanity despite immense suffering.

Putin has consistently described his father as a tough, hardworking, ordinary Soviet citizen and war hero whose experiences shaped the family’s modest, resilient life in a communal apartment in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).
He has voiced respect, trust, admiration for his father’s strength and honesty, and a positive connection to his family heritage.

Putin, born to a Hero & dedicated his life to be as strong and as patriotic to Russia as his father !

[Ravenlocke]

RT_India

📹 Putin Salutes Russia’s Navy, Hails Country As A ‘Great Maritime Power’

Marking Navy Day, the Russian President praised generations of sailors and scientists whose “military triumphs,” hard work and scientific achievements helped secure Russia’s maritime status.

He added that Moscow continues to develop its naval forces while strengthening the professionalism of its sailors.

https://x.com/RT_India_news/status/2081248569818837018

RT_India

📹 ‘Entire Country Supports Them and Looks Forward to Them Coming back home with Victory,’ Putin Hails Russian Navy’s Role In Special Military Operation

‘Devoted Sons Of Russia, Under Russian Flag Have Conquered The Seas,’ Putin Marks Navy Day From St. Petersburg

Speaking from the Main Admiralty, the Russian President said the day is celebrated with “great Respect” for sailors and heroes of the Navy’s long history.

https://x.com/RT_India_news/status/2081393100489105408

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Brian McDonald

Putin told reporters today that he does, in fact, read bloggers and social media channels, despite the long-standing claim that he barely uses the internet.

“There are bloggers whom I sometimes watch with genuine interest,” he said. “Sometimes I’m even pleased, they get it exactly right.”

Putin added that online channels are “not useless,” but claimed they contain “an enormous amount of informational garbage” and can easily mislead people without enough background knowledge. He said he still relies primarily on official sources, but makes his final judgments based on “the entire volume of information” that reaches him.

It's an interesting detail given how often Kremlin officials and people close to Putin have said over the years that he doesn't personally use the internet in anything like the normal sense. Unless, of course, texts are printed out for him, or videos uploaded to TV. But that would be rather strange and cumbersome?

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status...51661650719149

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RTRussia

Jul 25
Putin arrives in the Russian city of Omsk

Plans to meet with Kazakhstan's President Tokayev and take part in the 22nd Forum of Interregional Cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan

https://x.com/RT_Russia_/status/2080983365449048322

APT News

Jul 25
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev tour exhibition stands highlighting Russian-Kazakh bilateral cooperation during a joint forum. The leaders viewed displays showcasing economic partnerships, industrial collaboration, investment opportunities, technology, trade, infrastructure, and cross-border initiatives aimed at strengthening ties between Russia and Kazakhstan.

#Putin #Tokayev #Russia #Kazakhstan #RussiaKazakhstan

https://x.com/APT__News/status/2081039128599449907

RT_India

Jul 25
📹 Tokayev Floats ‘Freeze’ Option For Ukraine Conflict, Says ‘All Of This Must Be Stopped’

During talks with Putin in Omsk, the Kazakh president said “nobody knows how to resolve this situation,” adding that freezing the issue remains “a proven international practice.”


https://x.com/RT_India_news/status/2081049587050320010

Brian McDonald

Jul 25
Kazakh President Tokayev, speaking alongside Putin in Omsk, suggested freezing the Ukraine conflict and returning to what he called an “Istanbul 2.0” formula.

Tokayev said he had been receiving “many signals” from Western Europe and the US and had already discussed them with Putin by phone and he also praised Putin for showing “maximum diplomatic flexibility” at the Anchorage meeting in Alaska, last year.

“Perhaps this conflict should now be frozen and we should return to the Istanbul formula 2.0, since significant results were achieved there,” Tokayev said, adding that any settlement would require guarantees from major powers, including Russia.


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