Scoot slowly over Besse Cooper, 115 years old is just not old enough!
A woman living in a Chechen village is looking to steal the title as the world’s oldest living person.
According to her passport, Kesi Karuyeva is 116 years old, and is due to turn 117 this week, on January 5th. Another document gives her date of birth as even earlier — 1884. But who is really counting after 100 years?
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Even after an estimated 117 years of life, Kesi still remembers life prior to the forced deportation of the Chechens to Central Asia by Soviet leader Josef Stalin, when the country was under the rule of Tsar Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia.
Kesi claims that living under the Tsar was “the best time,” even though Tsar Nicholas II’s reign saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse…but who is around to dispute her?
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Kesi remains in good health and has outlived all but 2 of her 12 children. Take a look at the video of what may be the world’s newest, oldest person.
