My office waiting room right now. pic.twitter.com/6os0NiyAZ3— Vladimir Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) March 11, 2015
Posted on 03/12/2015 3:44:41 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
Rumors have been swirling about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s taking usually unheard of sick days.
Putin was supposed to go to Kazakhstan this week to meet in Astana with President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, but a Kazakh official told Reuters, “The visit has been cancelled. It looks like he has fallen ill.”
Belarus officials wouldn’t comment, the report said.
Russia’s Interfax news agency got Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, to confirm the Kazakh cancellation. But “the president feels fine,” that report said.
The Moscow Times said Peskov “did not pick up repeated phone calls.”
A Russian news outlet reported that a Wednesday ceremony to formally ink an annexation agreement between Moscow and South Ossetia was canceled. The Interpreter cites another Russian newspaper saying that meeting was scrapped because the agreement wasn’t ready.
Still, the delegation from South Ossetia didn’t find out the ceremony was canceled until after they got to Moscow.
The Kremlin posted stories and photos of two meetings it says happened this week: on Tuesday with Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area Governor Dmitry Kobylkin and on Wednesday with Head of the Republic of Karelia Alexander Khudilainen.
A series of photos from each meeting showed Putin sitting up in a chair across the table from the officials.
One tweet noted that Putin was wearing the same tie in the photo dated Tuesday as he did for an event two days before. His ties are different, though, in the photos dated Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Interpreter posted a translation of an email received by the Russkiy Monitor, which they said was “signed by an anonymous official of the Central Clinical Hospital of the Department of Presidential Affairs in Moscow, in which he reported that among the patients of this elite Moscow hospital, where the top leadership of the Russian Federation are registered, there were rumors that Vladimir Putin was diagnosed several days ago with an ischemic stroke.”
The Interpreter also forwards a rumor that the Russian Embassy in London is in a tizzy about some sort of pending announcement.
“Even so, the source said that the president was not hospitalized directly at the Central Clinical Hospital,” the report continued. “The editorial board of Russian Monitor cannot confirm or deny the information which might very well be false, however we must note the fact that the president has not been seen in public since last week, his meeting with the presidents of Belarus and Kazakhstan was unexpectedly cancelled. Observers note that since Putin has been in power, nothing of this sort has occurred.”
At age 62, Putin is just two years under the average life expectancy for males in Russia. He regularly puts on macho displays, with shirts and without, to prove his virility to the populace, and Vanity Fair declared in a 2013 headline, “Vladimir Putin’s Face Appears to Contain More Botulism Than Drug-Store Sushi.”
After the New York Post reported rumors last fall that Putin had been battling pancreatic cancer, Putin’s spokesman said journalists “should shut their trap” because “everything’s OK.”
When Putin missed a 2012 trip to Japan, the Kremlin blamed a “minor sports injury.”
Physically, who knows?
Mentally, most definitely not.
Lead poisoning...Kalashnikov variety?
Well, they usually change power in Russia by some type of crime. Poisoning has always been a way for savages to pick the next ruler.
pong
Drooling and pooping his pants? Nice picture to think about and start the day.
Dunno. He’s got nothing to lose if he’s still coherent.
Old commies don’t ever become coherent; they just latch onto a new lie for power.
life expectancy 62..... and the libtard commies in this country want that national health care.... let obama have it for himself and the other commies....
first of all the diagnosis and treatment in the ussa is still the envy of the world... people flock here for treatment..
only the tupid libtards want to change it.... as always for political votes... from idiots and parasites.
I think that not nearly enough people pray for strokes, heart attacks, fatal crashes, etc., for the right people.
We’re to pray for conversion.
Debilities can shift focus.
That’s why we pray for God’s will rather than our agenda.
maybe he’s been hanging out in west hollywood and caught syphyllis? (see other article posted on fr). It is the only plausible scenario, consdiering all those pics of him romping around barechested on exotic tigers. Never see him in any pics with exotic human females, just females from the animal kingdom. Guess that incldes the species known as transexual? lol
Hey! You’re being judgmental!
My office waiting room right now. pic.twitter.com/6os0NiyAZ3— Vladimir Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) March 11, 2015
Dictators often have ‘health problems’ when the time of their end is near.
Just pining for the fjords?
Or simulating death to improve the exchange rate of the Rubles?
“Possible good news!”
Sure would be nice if that were the case, but like the Cold War, the problem is OUR POLICIES, not theirs.
So what happens: They invade Ukraine, and we respond by stating that we need more LGBTs in the military, killing the A-10, gutting our military even more, and appointing an openly gay Air Force Chief of Staff (I think it’s Air Force).
No different than the Cold War. They went through half a dozen leaders while we keep sucking up to them, and NOTHING CHANGED policy-wise. Finally Reagan was elected and everything changed.
We can stop them, but it doesn’t appear we have the will to take the necessary steps. Putin’s approval is 85-90% and I know enough Russians to know that’s an accurate number. His successor will carry out the same policies.
So because we have fags in the US you’re pro-putin and anti-American. I guess if we were perfect and without fags, you’d be on ...well who knows whose side you’d be on.
It is perfectly legitimate to pray for strokes, heart attacks, and other events that could remove the wicked from positions of power.
No it’s not, it’s to pray they change their tune. Praying for someone to die isn’t right.
Now, I want some people to die, ISIS for example, but I wouldn’t pray for it.
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