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

[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.

[hapnHal]

Got a thought...
I bet Edward Snowden might know where Putin is.

[txhurl]

Snowden asked to come home around the same time we last saw Putin.

[MomwithHope]

I think Snowden has got the goods on Hillary’s email.

[huldah1776]

dang. Not that I feel for him, but what would the replacements do with him? Make him work?

[apocalypto]

That would be hillarious.

[sten]

or a propaganda job by the fabulous one in the white hut

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

And STOP sending me selfies of you shirtless in your bathroom. I’m not interested. Oh wait, that was Geraldo Rivera. My bad. Made a mistake!

[caww]

That scenario isn’t hard to imagine......similar was done to Yeltz... and only one person could grant him the “protection” he would need going out...KGB Putin and this was ‘another reason’ Yeltz appointed Putin...to save his own skin.

When the bottom falls out for a Russian Leader his first and foremost thoughts and actions will be to secure for himself and his family safe passage.

[caww]

Who’s to know at this juncture.....and that is the agenda.

[ansel12]

It wasn’t sagar anyway, it was somebody with a similar name, who sent an email from an older thread, it turns out that he hasdsome old grudge that he wanted me to know about.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

I know, I was just having some fun. Sometimes my jokes fall flat.

[Lady Heron]

Why isn’t it it the top line of every radio newscast, etc?

Because there is no proof there is anything wrong with Putin or in Russia and if they speculate on the air and later look the fool it gives every other news outlet propaganda against them.

[caww]

....”Snowden asked to come home around the same time we last saw Putin”.....

Ha! Very glad you mentioned this as I was thinking about that early today.....must be Snowden wants out of dodge because if there's been a change in leadership he has zero guarantees what they will do with him...which may not be such a good thing. If there's another leader they may well want to know what he knows and won't care to hold him over Obama's head as a toy to dangle. They may want the goods....and Snowden may not have a choice.

I'm sure Snowden's been thinking about this...IF...there's a change...and if not that possibility does affect how he see's his time there....which sooner or later he is running out of.

Then theirs his interview with Germany TV on Jan 26th held in Moscow..... that Snowden said that US government officials “want to kill me”......“These people, and they are government officials, have said they would love to put a bullet in my head or poison me when I come out of the supermarket, and then watch as I die in the shower,”...

At any rate he is a complainer failing to understand he is where he is for decisions he made...he had soooo many other options.

However he does have his pole-dancer girlfriend there with him so he's not that miserable as we see here at the theater

I say leave him as he is and let him continue to figure it out on his own..he is NOT suffering

[piasa]

Oh, forgot about Primakov- Russia’s WMD man in Saddam’s Iraq.

[piasa]

Iran invited Snowden to come to Tehran a couple weeks ago.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yep. I have said ad nauseam that the 40 or so oligarchs Putey works for are not happy with his misadventure in the Ukraine and the plummeting ruble. They don’t give a rats bazoo about the Ukraine. They care about making money and the the sanctions and drum rattling by Merkel and the EU are not good for business.

[txhurl]

WOW. That’ll take some time to mullah over. Did Iran know Putin was potentially going under?

[PJ-Comix]

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

What does your Geydar tell you?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Islamic Geydar?

[AdmSmith]

Catherine Fitzpatrick:

Boris Nemtsov had to be killed, but not only because he was going to lead an anti-war parade — that would have had at the most 16,000 people in my view, given the remote location, the problems in preparing it, the arrest of Nemtsov for the two weeks before it, etc. And not only because he was going to release a report on the war — lots of people have done that, and more can always be done, but his contribution would have been to make it interesting, viral in Russia, and compelling to foreigners. He had already done a video with a million views about MH17, with Leonid Martynyuk.

I think the reason Boris would have to be killed was because he would have easily gotten the 100,000 signatures that any candidate for president in emergency elections after the demise/withdrawal/death/overthrow of the existing president needs to have. This is what Robert Coalson helpfully explained at RFE/RL. It's actually easier to run for president after a death/overthrow like that then in the normal course of things (it seems to me). Why did they have to do this? Because they had nothing to imprison him on.

http://3dblogger.typepad.com/minding_russia/2015/03/what-i-think-is-going-on-in-moscow.html

This is a very interesting remark.