'Where is Putin?' Russians ask, as leader drops off radar

Yahoo News ^ | 3/12/15

[Enlightened1]

Moscow (AFP) - Where is President Vladimir Putin? The Kremlin was forced Thursday to insist the Russian leader was in good health as rumours swirled online over his week-long absence from the public eye.

Putin was last seen in public on March 5 when he met with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and, ever since he postponed a trip to Kazakhstan this week, Russians have grown increasingly curious about what their usually omnipresent leader is up to.

The 62-year-old nurtures a fit, tough-guy image and rarely takes time off.

"There's no need to worry, he's absolutely healthy," Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Echo of Moscow radio station on Thursday.

[Grampa Dave]

As the Ruble continues to spiral down, Putin’s life span is probably getting shorter. His backers will be seeing the futility of backing him as their monetary resources dry up.

[lacrew]

Sounds very Soviet.

[lee martell]

Maybe Vlad is in France, getting some work done Facelift, Eyebrow lifts, Pec. Implant Replacements, Chrome Dome massage, wax & polish. Polliwog Pedicure, Singing Lessons, stuff like that.

[areukiddingme1]

Ok, seriously, has anyone seen his girlfriend — She is smoking hot...I would not be making war...

[tcrlaf]

Lots of speculation, most of it baseless and wild.

Rumors that it just isn’t Putin that “hasn’t been seen”, but several high-ranking Military leaders, as well.

Add in that there was a “Snap” Nuclear exercise last weekend, and the baseless speculation plot thickens.

[gdani]

I think it’s probably just too cold for him to be out & about with his shirt off.

[dan on the right]

Its obvious. Getting more plastic surgery.

[Zionist Conspirator]

[elhombrelibre]

Some reports say he’s had a stroke. Possibly, all the horrors he’s inflicted on others has comeback to him through God’s hand. This vile and malicious man deserves the wrath of a Just God.

[Daffynition]

When he replaces Lenin....stuffed and prepped in the Kremlin....we'll know the answer.

[SevenofNine]

If they start play Russia classical music you know something up LOL!

[Daffynition]

Hope he takes Hitlery with him......BOGO.

[elhombrelibre]

Get a grip man. He’s not going to be here forever. You’re not going to have take down all of those posters you have of him without his shirt on. Go to your altar of Putin and pray he’s going be swell.

[Kozak]

Hopefully suffering from a very painful, long fatal illness.

[Billthedrill]

And there was Lenin, stiff and still, a symbol and a sign,
And rancid races come to thrill and wonder at his Shrine;
And hold the thought: if Lenin rot the Soviets will decay;
And there he sleeps and calm he keeps his watch and ward for aye.
Yet if you pass that frame of glass, peer closly at his phiz,
So stern and firm it mocks the worm, it looks like wax . . . and IS.

0bama, however - I'm thinking a cheap straw-stuffed taxidermy job in a small-town Haunted House exhibit.

[tcrlaf]

“You’re not going to have take down all of those posters you have of him without his shirt on.”

Lol...
The last “poster I had on my wall” was of Nastassja Kinski.

You really do live in a crazy fantasy world of hate, doncha?

[edpc]

Yes, because Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko were “fine” as well.

[Daffynition]

Hussein should be a cake. Served at school lunches.

[elhombrelibre]

No. I’m a Christian. I’m not a Putinista. The two are not compatible. And your love of Putin and constant apologias, fawning, sycophancy, lickspittle, and propagating for him don’t mean a whit to a free man.