Putin and his mother Maria Ivanovna, in July 1958. By all accounts Putin was said to have been an extremely shy child.
Vladimir Putin received numerous birthday greetings from leaders of foreign countries.
Along with written greetings, Vladimir Putin received a number of telephone calls, in particular, from President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe, President of Armenia Serge Sargsyan, and former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi.
Pressing issues on the international and bilateral agenda were also discussed during these conversations.
Source: Kremlin
Note: Notably absent from the list of birthday wishes was President Barack Obama?
We contacted the White House to inquire why the President of the United States refused to wish Putin Happy Birthday. The response from the operator in this case was “are you serious? Is this some kind of prank call?”
The operator then hung up on me?
It should be noted that on the occasion of President Obama birthday Putin called to wish him a Happy Birthday? See article: Putin wishes Obama happy July Fourth, calls for closer tieshttp://www.cnn.com/…/…/europe/russia-us-relations/index.html
Bio Note: Putin was born on 7 October 1952, in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (modern day Saint Petersburg, Russia),to parents Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin (1911–1999) and Maria Ivanovna Putina (née Shelomova; 1911–1998). His mother was a factory worker, and his father was a conscript in the Soviet Navy, where he served in thesubmarine fleet in the early 1930s, and later served on the front lines in the demolition battalion of the NKVD during World War II. The ancestry of Vladimir Putin has been described as a mystery with no records surviving of any ancestors of any people with the surname “Putin” beyond his grandfather Spiridon Ivanovich.