This is pure rumor, and you are the first to read about it.
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Verious?
I wish it was true, sounds like pure fantasy to me.
Very interesting
Thats like getting Ukraine news from RT, a crazy Russian site
"in particular, next to the Situation Control Center a helicopter landed, identified by amateur aviation enthusiast as the aircraft of Presidential Signal Service..."
There was another rumor today that Putin was very ill.
All rumors until CNN and Huffpo reports it.
Medvedev is Putin’s poodle & always has been.
But maybe Putin is waxing delusional & thinks that stupid Westerners will believe absolutely anything....
Such hugh and series news from Ukranian facebooker!
Yeah, right. I won’t believe it until it is announced that Putin has a cold.
Where is Putin? Russian leader’s absence sparks rumors.
If one morning russians wake up to classical music playing all day long, then Putin is dead.
No wonder Snowden wants back into the US-— soon. LOL!!
If something is wrong, the one to watch is Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu.
He’s been a major hawk regarding Ukraine, Crimea, and Donbas.
He and several other high-ranking officers were in Crimea on the 11th, and in Rostov today.
Has this been confirmed by DebkaFiles?
The death of Putin isn’t as important as the West assumes. Russia is a KGB police state where, in fact, the underground soviet system is still very much intact and in control. Dictatorship in Russia by a single leader itself is a well-crafted myth. Ask KGB defectors like Anatoliy Golitsyn and others. The Communist Party didn’t simply up and disappear, but most if it “democratized,” with Commies turning all of a sudden liberal or democratic, depending on whatever orders they received, and with much Communist party funds either being moved out of the country or transferred into the hands of a trusted few, who are periodically killed for not following secret rules and their money and businesses get confiscated by others or by the government itself.
Putin was just the next guy who was in line to take power. The next guy will be another KGB goon, whoever is chosen by however Mafias choose their next leader.
hopefully a disgruntled Chechen did puttie in.
Some reports suggest cracks in Putin’s power vertical. Reuters reports that the killing of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov and his alleged killers’ link to Chechnya point to a possible divide between the Russian state security agency (FSB) – Putin’s closest allies – and the head of Russia’s Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov, who has a pretty powerful army that operates outside of FSB’s direct influence.The idea of a palace coup, or at least some serious problems within Putin’s power system, has been circulating in media for quite some time.
Last year, a theory about a confrontation between the “hawks” (war proponents, those in charge of the military and security agencies, living off of state money, moved by ideology and geopolitical ambition) and the “doves” (Putin’s somewhat liberal cronies: oligarchs seeking success and power) gained popularity. It seemed to explain the confusing behavior of the Kremlin as it tried to save face over its hybrid war in eastern Ukraine while trying to maintain diplomatic relation with the rest of the world through lies and manipulation.
The hawks seem to have won. The new military doctrine was signed on December 26, stating that Russia faces threats from foreign nations and identifying the expansion of NATO as the biggest security threat. The Kremlin’s propaganda machine intensely militarized the mood of the Russian population and reinforced the idea of the West and Ukraine as Russia’s number one enemy.
I would add, in a dictatorial cleptocracy it's never final who won and who lost. It could easily be that because the "hawks" won themselves a military doctrine, the "doves" shot their way to power.