Sputnik News:

The Russian president has also become a bit of an Iraqi Internet celebrity, with some circulating rumors that Putin may be able to trace his roots back to the Middle East.

While in no way accurate, the story suggests that Putin’s father was an Iraqi grocer, who because of specializing in figs – “tin” in Arabic – he became known as "Abu Tin." Moving to the Soviet Union after World War II, he married "a blonde Russian girl" and named their child Abdulamir.

From there, Abdulamir Abu Tin was russified to Vladimir Putin.


 

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