Putin ‘Puts Authors of New Biography on Kill List’

Vladimir Putin is accused of unleashing a chilling Kremlin hit squad against two investigative journalists after their bombshell biography exposed dark secrets about the Russian leader’s private life — including an alleged teenage lover and a violent family history that “terrifies” him.

Roman Badanin, 46, and Mikhail Rubin, 42, co-authors of The Tsar in Person: How Vladimir Putin Fooled Us All, are now reportedly “marked for death,” according to Western intelligence sources.

“This book unmasks Putin,” one senior security insider told us. “It paints him as both predator and son of a monster. That’s why Moscow wants these authors silenced — permanently.”

The book claims Putin groomed then-17-year-old model Alisa Kharcheva, who once posed for a provocative “Putin-themed” calendar. It also portrays Putin’s late father, Vladimir Spiridonovich, as a violent bully who once gouged out a woman’s eye with a pitchfork during a drunken fight.

Exiled Russian dissidents are warning the authors to “watch their backs.” One insider put it bluntly:

“When you expose Putin’s corruption and private life, you sign your own death warrant.”

The Kremlin, the book claims, rewarded Kharcheva with special perks, including admission to Moscow’s elite MGIMO University despite failing entrance exams and a luxury apartment arranged through oligarch-linked businessman Grigory Baevsky, a close associate of billionaire Arkady Rotenberg — one of Putin’s oldest friends.

In 2012, Kharcheva sparked controversy by posting an erotic birthday tribute to Putin titled “P—- for Putin”, where she posed alongside a kitten and a portrait of the Russian leader. She quickly deleted it, wiping her social media clean — a move critics say was part of a Kremlin cover-up.

When asked about her luxury apartment in 2016, Kharcheva downplayed the connection, insisting:

“We bought this flat with a mortgage. We’re still paying it off.”

Perhaps most shocking are the allegations about Putin’s father. The book cites witness Anfisa Kormilitsyna, who claimed:

“He broke through the gate with a pitchfork and hit Marusya [Putin’s mother] right in the face. He accidentally gouged out her eye.”

To avoid trial, Maria’s family allegedly forced him to marry her.

Badanin and Rubin also allege that Putin’s father was notorious in his village for humiliating young girls:

“He lifted girls’ skirts and laughed as they cried,” Badanin said.

Putin, 72, has long tried to craft the image of a strongman raised by virtuous parents. In 2015, he publicly claimed:

“I never once saw my father drunk. I never heard a swear word from him.”

But behind the scenes, Moscow is escalating censorship. Over the past decade, the Kremlin has banned books on LGBTQ rights, suppressed Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich, and whitewashed Soviet history.

Western intelligence officials warn that targeting authors and critics is nothing new. Putin has been repeatedly accused of authorizing assassinations abroad, including the poisonings of Alexander Litvinenko in London and Sergei Skripal in Salisbury.

“Putin wants this book erased from history,” one Western analyst said. “But in trying to bury it, he’s only proving its power.”