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Vladimir Putin has been 'neutralised' by a stealthy coup as rumours about his health and well-being
The Daily Mail ^ | 3/15/2015 | Will Stewart

Posted on 03/15/2015 2:51:25 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans

Vladimir Putin is 'alive' but 'neutralised' as shadowy security chiefs stage a stealthy coup in Moscow, it was claimed last night.

Former FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev was behind the plot, claimed chairman of the pro-Kremlin national Islamic Committee, Geydar Dzhemal.

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'I think that Putin is neutralised at the moment, but of course, he is alive,' said Dzhemal, seen as a Kremlin loyalist. 'He is under the control of the power-wielding agencies, who have, in my opinion, organised a coup d'etat.'

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'My information is that Patrushev met Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov in Pyatigorsk on 11 March and tempted him over to his side.'

With feverish speculation in Moscow over Putin's health and whereabouts, and claims of a bitter power struggle in his entourage which could even trigger an attempted coup, the head of Chechnya spoke emotionally of people 'trying to harm the president of Russia - and Russia itself'. And he claimed that forces were scheming 'to break us apart', referring to him and his guarantor Putin.

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The voices of prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, Chief of the Kremlin staff Sergei Ivanov - and Putin's intelligence tsars - have remained silent. Kadyrov has enjoyed extraordinary power and largesse under Putin as a reward for keeping an iron grip on the rebellious oil-rich Chechen region, scene of two bloody wars since the collapse of the USSR. As a result he is hated by many senior Putin loyalists. But Kadyrov's enemies claimed yesterday that the 38 year old bearded regional potentate is in 'panic' because he can no longer contact his mentor. 'He is phoning anyone he can in an attempt to arrange a talk with Putin - but he fails,' alleged a website linked to Islamic hardliners seeking to overthrow Kadyrov.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: 201503; 20150314; 20150315; chechnya; coup; coupplots; crimea; dmitrymedvedev; donetsk; flu; fsb; geydardzhemal; missingman; nikolaipatrushev; patrushev; putin; putinappears; putinback; putinhealth; putinsbuttboys; pyatigorsk; ramzankadyrov; russia; russiacoup; sergeiivanov; sergeishoigu; ukraine; vladtheimploder
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1 posted on 03/15/2015 2:51:25 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Either that, or Putin is merely kicking back, celebrating with his gf.

(or maybe he even got married?)


2 posted on 03/15/2015 2:54:05 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Ah, Russians.


3 posted on 03/15/2015 2:54:51 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat."- Mark Twain)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
putin photo: Vladimir Putin vlad1.jpg
4 posted on 03/15/2015 2:56:23 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: caww; SunkenCiv; AdmSmith; TADSLOS

Putin ping!


5 posted on 03/15/2015 2:58:40 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I don’t think there’s any truth to the rumors.

If he died, Russian state TV and radio would be playing funereal music.

Of course, tomorrow we’ll see if Putin meets the President Of Kyrgyzstan in his native city of St. Petersburg.


6 posted on 03/15/2015 2:59:26 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Let me guess. Christian hating and homo loving begin in Russia in 3,2,1....


7 posted on 03/15/2015 3:00:37 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: txhurl
They're all still looking..'Where's Putin"...lol


8 posted on 03/15/2015 3:00:49 PM PDT by caww
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

He’s waiting somewhere to see who celebrates.


9 posted on 03/15/2015 3:01:40 PM PDT by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: txhurl

Thanks, background here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3267347/posts


10 posted on 03/15/2015 3:02:34 PM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: caww

Another FReeper guessed, and I agree, he DID go to Switzerland for his girlfriend’s birth and Russia told him he couldn’t come back.


11 posted on 03/15/2015 3:05:29 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

The most likely explanation is unfortunately not very dramatic. There is a fairly brutal flue epidemic in Moscow that has reportedly floored around half the population. According to various reports it’s a nasty strain that leaves its victims prostrate for days and can take well over a week to bounce back from. Invoking Occam’s Razor, my money says he has a bad case of the grippe and the Russians just can’t bear admitting that their great leader can be felled by something so mundane.


12 posted on 03/15/2015 3:05:43 PM PDT by NRx
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To: txhurl
From article..."The voices of prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, Chief of the Kremlin staff Sergei Ivanov - and Putin's intelligence tsars - have remained silent."......So has everyone else but news speculators. Whatever is going on NOBODY of Official capacity is saying anything....it might be a changing of the guard??????


13 posted on 03/15/2015 3:06:07 PM PDT by caww
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Perhaps it is not Patrushev, but Primakov that is behind this: http://glavpost.com/post/14mar2015/blogs/19500-pavlo-pravyy-ultimatum-primakova-v-deystvii.html


14 posted on 03/15/2015 3:07:02 PM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Either that, or Putin is merely kicking back, celebrating with his gf.

He and Obama are working on their NCAA brackets this weekend.

15 posted on 03/15/2015 3:07:03 PM PDT by usurper (Liberals GET OFF MY LAWN)
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To: txhurl

Would be nice if Obozo went to play golf in a foreign country and we told him to stay there.


16 posted on 03/15/2015 3:07:55 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: txhurl
In 1964, in the case of Krushchev, he was out of the country when the military, the party and the KGB moved against him. He found out as he was boarding the plane back to Russia.

He was flown to an airport near his dacha, where he spent the rest of his life. But he wasn't flown back to Moscow.

17 posted on 03/15/2015 3:08:01 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I would say that Putin has been Russia’s most powerful leader, in terms of real executive leadership not dictatorial powers, since perhaps Peter the Great.


18 posted on 03/15/2015 3:08:47 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Another report is that he hurt his back riding a bear and is being treated at home by a Viennese orthopedist. The bear was annoyed to be awakened from hibernation.


19 posted on 03/15/2015 3:10:17 PM PDT by cynwoody
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....”There is a fairly brutal flue epidemic in Moscow that has reportedly floored around half the population. According to various reports it’s a nasty strain that leaves its victims prostrate for days and can take well over a week to bounce back from”.....

Well I had it here in the US...and let me tell you you are really put down with this stuff....I actually broke blood vessels coughing ....and not uncommon to relapse, which I did 2 days later after returning to work, for another two weeks.

It was two months before I really felt like things were getting normal again. The cough hangs on forever!

I have to say the worst illness I had in my lifetime.


20 posted on 03/15/2015 3:10:21 PM PDT by caww
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