Posted on 06/29/2023 2:22:36 AM PDT by dennisw
Prompting claims it's a body double
Russian president lapped up praise from a fervent crowd in Dagestan last night It is the first time since before the pandemic he has attended such an event His uncharacteristic behaviour has fuelled speculation it was a body double
Vladimir Putin is consolidating support in Russia following last week's short-lived rebellion by Wagner group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in a rare meet-and-greet that saw him mobbed by a crowd as he posed for selfies with young girls.
Stunning footage from the event - a presidential appearance during a trip to the city of Derbent in the Dagestan region of southern Russia - showed how he dove into a nighttime crowd like a Hollywood actor at a red carpet show.
Seemingly imbued with fresh energy after averting a small scale civil war last week, the normally stoic and isolated Putin was uncharacteristically personable, shaking hands and planting kisses on the head of a young teenage girl who gushed over him and pleaded with her mother to snap a photo of her with the president.
In another bizarre moment he shakes hands with - and appears to adjust something on the uniform of - an officer carrying what may be his nuclear briefcase.
He has not greeted his security apparatchiks in such a way previously.
The scene was in marked variance to the extreme measures of the last few years which have enforced strict quarantines for anyone outside of Putin's close circle before meeting with him.
His transformative behaviour has led many, including senior Russian figures, to fuel speculation that Putin greeting adoring fans in Dagestan was in fact a body double.
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President Putin is a great man,
3 days after a coup attempt and “Putin” flies off from Moscow to grope and sniff teens in Dagestan.
No, they would walk much better.😀
God bless President Putin !
President Putin is going to bust Hell wide open when he eventually expires.
President Putin is a Christian. Zelensky is a genocidal warmongering lunatic who worships perversion and sodomy.
LOL!
Is that your self-portrait ? It’s a good likeness.
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