Parents who named their son Putin to show their love for the Russian president plead with officials to let them change it six years later
- The Tajik parents of Putin Dzhuraev, now eight, said they ‘regret’ their decision
Parents who had named their son Putin in 2016 to show their love for the Russian president have begged officials to allow them to change it.
The Tajik parents of now eight-year-old Putin Dzhuraev, told a local registry office that they now wish to give their son his birth name of Rasul.
Ekaterina Belous, head of the Alexandrovsky district registry office in Vladimir oblast, east of Moscow, said that the couple have ‘regrets’ about the decision, but did not go into detail about why those regrets were held.
‘The parents have already turned to us again,’ she told New City of Alexandrovsk newspaper.
‘We’re currently consulting with them. Let’s just say they regret that they did it.’
The Tajik parents of now eight-year-old Putin Dzhuraev, told a local registry office that they now wish to give their son his birth name of Rasul
Parents who named their son Putin in 2016 to show their love for the Russian president have begged officials to allow them to change it
The child’s cousin, named Shoigu – after Russia’s minister of defence, Sergei Shoigu -will be keeping his name for the time being, Belous confirmed.
The decision to name the child Putin comes from the boy’s grandfather – Rahmon Juraev, a fan of the Russian president – who was inspired in 2016 by the decision of an Egyptian journalist to name his own son after the Russian leader.
‘Vladimir Putin is the number one man in the world for me. Strong, smart and educated. My grandson looks very similar to Putin as a child, and I, without hesitation, decided to change the name of the child,’ Jurayev told the BBC Russian Service at the time.
The family, originally from Tajikistan – where Putin was once hailed as an iconic leader – fled the country to Russia in the 1990’s after a fierce civil war in their home country.
Since the war in Ukraine began last year, the president has become less popular in Central Asia.
Enlistment officers in Russia have been entering mosques to search for migrants from the Muslim-populated countries of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
They have offered them payments and expedited citizenship in return for military service in the Ukraine war.
According to Eurasianet, many have been forced to enlist against their will or tricked into joining.
