Here is an English translation (using Altavista) from an Italian webpage. It
is about the Italian Journalist who was murdered in Georgia. Antonio Russo
said he had just filmed Vladimir Putin's mother.

Who is Putin's Mother?
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=4959

Before Antonio Russo was murdered, he electronically transmitted his video of the interview with Putin's mother to Italy. The following transciption made using Altavista's translating program, is about this video.

Transcription:
it introduces
LAST VIDEO INVIATOCI FROM ANTONIO RUSSO
This published is the last audiovideo document that we have received in the

half of the slid september from Antonio Russo, not published end here
because Russian it meant integrarlo with ulterior information and necessary
appraisals from he thought its I re-enter in Italy.

The video link
http://www.radioradicale.it/speciale/retroscena.html

Against the publication of this document, the Russian intelligence agencies
would have been mobilitati, for impedirla not only in Georgia and Russia,
but also in the western countries. Draft of a journalistic inquiry from
which he would turn out that the Putin President, to the contrary of
asserted how much in its official biographies, would have lived its infancy
in Georgia, where still its mother would reside, died date instead for in
1998.
The President of the Publishing House, that she published the newspaper "
Top Secret ", Artem Borovik, and the businessman of origin cecena Aunt
Bazhayev, former President of the Sidanko Oil, (see below for more info on
Sidanko Oil) would have been eliminated with a successful attack against an
airplane from they rented to the company charter 9 Aeroteks slid March to
Moscow, why on the point to publish the document.

http://www.radioradicale.it/speciale/retroscena.html

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Comments from RMNews:

Putin is the second Russian/Soviet leader to have questions asked regarding
his mother. Mikhail Gobachev's lineage was also questioned.

Some have claimed that Gorbachev was the grandson of Armand Hammer. (That would make him practically a first cousin to Al Gore.

Armand Hammer was the number one financial supporter of Al Gore, Sr.

Hammer paid for the college education of Al Gore, Jr.

Hammer owned Occidental Petroleum

Al Gore sold the United States Elk Grove Petroleum Reserve to Occidental Petroleum. They made hundreds of millions in profits.

If Gorbachev was linked to powerful American through his mother and her mother, then who or what is Vladimer Putin trying to hide?

SIDANKO OIL ASKS PUTIN FOR HELP

http://www.rbcnews.com/eng_digest/2000/09/06/20000906122030.shtml

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Italian comments of video:

presenta
L'ULTIMO VIDEO INVIATOCI DA ANTONIO RUSSO
Questo pubblicato è l'ultimo documento audiovideo che abbiamo ricevuto nella
metà dello scorso settembre da Antonio Russo, non pubblicato fin qui perché
Russo intendeva integrarlo con ulteriori informazioni e valutazioni da lui
ritenute necessarie al suo rientro in Italia.

Il video

Contro la pubblicazione di questo documento, si sarebbero mobilitati i
servizi segreti russi, per impedirla non solamente in Georgia e Russia, ma
anche nei paesi occidentali. Si tratta di una inchiesta giornalistica dalla
quale risulterebbe che il Presidente Putin, al contrario di quanto affermato
nelle sue biografie ufficiali, avrebbe vissuto la sua infanzia in Georgia,
dove tuttora risiederebbe sua madre, data invece per morta nel 1998.
Il Presidente della Casa Editrice, che pubblicava il giornale "Top Secret",
Artem Borovik, e l'uomo d'affari di origine cecena Zia Bazhayev, ex
Presidente della Sidanko Oil, sarebbero stati eliminati con un attentato
riuscito contro un aereo da loro noleggiato alla compagnia charter Aeroteks
lo scorso 9 marzo a Mosca, perchè sul punto di pubblicare il documento.

: Sometimes 'gigi' can't post on the RMNews webpage in Europe.
: When this happens, she sends the information to me to post.
: ###

: dear rayelan,

: can you post this for me?
: thanks

: from: gigi fet.tv@libero.it
: date: 31-10-2000

: update on v. putin's mother

: i need to appologize for an error in my yesterday's message.
: the mother of v. putin is living in miteki, georgia.

: the official legend says that putin grow up as an orphan. the
: lady filmed by the italian journalist says, i am vera
: putin, my son volodia (diminituive of vladimir), was a
: blanket on the wrong side, my second man did not accept
: him, and vladimir was given in adoption in st. petersburg.
: this means that putin comes from georgia. (the georgians do
: not enjoy a high reputation in the rest of russia)

: the strange thing however is that a russian journalist, artiom
: borovik, owner of "soverscenno sekretno" and
: "versia" both scandalistic newspapers, have
: published already this story. the editor died in a plane
: crash. as well did publish it the spanish newspaper
: "el mundo", 25-02-00, and the russian national
: newspaper "komsomolskaia prawda". the original
: story was published in the georgian newspapaer
: "alia" beginning this year. (it was not possible
: to have the exact dates of the rleative issues)

: the mother of v. putin lives in absolute poverty, was
: reported. nor the name of the father nor the names of the
: adoptive mother / father are mentioned in the articles.

: together with the editor who died in a plane crash (after the
: articles appeared) died also a petroleum businessman from
: tschetschenia, zia bazhayew. (note from gigi: this name
: indicates more an origin from kalmykia - russia)

: together with the story of the origin of v. putin, the italian
: journalist antonia russo, would have also discovered the
: use of non convential arms in the war in tschetschenia.

: in my modest view it is very questionable if antonia russo was
: killed only for the fact to have discovered that v. putin
: was given away for adoption. for the demographic disaster
: (to speak nicely) which stalin left in russia, the
: situation of many families is not clear.

: marco panella, the chief of the radical party of italy and
: longtime memeber of the italian parliament, promised more
: explosive information about this case.

: somebody knows more? i feel a big story behind all this but i
: do not see it at the moment.

: gigi