Parents who named their son Putin to show their love for the Russian president are begging officials to give them permission to change the name six years later
- Putin Dzhuraev’s Tajik parents, now eight, say they ‘regret’ their decision
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 Tajik parents of Putin Dzhuraev, now eight, have told a local registry office that they now want to give their son his birth name Rasul.
Ekaterina Belous, head of the Alexandrovsky district registry office in Vladimir Oblast, east of Moscow, said the couple “regrets” the decision, but did not elaborate on why those regrets were detained.
“The parents have already turned to us again,” she told the New City of Alexandrovsk newspaper.
“We are currently negotiating with them. Let’s say they regret doing it.’
The Tajik parents of Putin Dzhuraev, now eight, told a local registry office that they now want to give their son his birth name 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 nephew, named Shoigu – named after Russia’s defense minister Sergei Shoigu – will keep his name for now, 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 an Egyptian journalist’s decision to name his own son after the Russian leader.
“Vladimir Putin is number one in the world for me. Strong, smart and well trained. My grandson is very similar to Putin as a child, and I decided without hesitation to change the child’s name,” 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 for Russia in the 1990s after a fierce civil war in their homeland.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine last year, the president has become less popular in Central Asia.
Recruitment officers in Russia have entered mosques to search for migrants from the Muslim-populated countries of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
They have offered them payments and accelerated citizenship in exchange for military service in the war in Ukraine.
According to Eurasianet, many have been forced to enlist against their will or have been tricked into joining.