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Kremlin Rejects Rumor Of Putin Illness, Shows Footage Of Today's Meeting
Following reports that after unexpectedly rescheduling two preannounced high level meetings, the social networks erupted with a cornucopia of theories and "confirmed" reports that the Russian president is sick, had a stroke, or has outright died. To be sure this is not the first time the 62-year-old's health has been put into question, the last time being 2012 when rumors swirled again. However this time it got so bad even Bloomberg felt it was relevant to ask "Where is Vladimir Putin." This morning the Kremlin answered.
Earlier today, Russian state television broadcast footage which it said was of Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting Supreme Court chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev on Friday at Putin's residence near Moscow. The Kremlin released more detail on the meeting, along with photos taken today:
Meeting with President of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev
Vladimir Putin met with President of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev to discuss the court’s work since the merger of the Supreme Court and the Higher Arbitration Court.
And then just to make sure this latest iteration of "Putin is officially dead" fades into memory, the Kremlin also noted that "Vladimir Putin will meet with President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev in St Petersburg on March 16.
The main subject on the agenda will be continued steps to develop bilateral cooperation, particularly trade and investment ties, cultural and humanitarian contacts, and relations in the energy sector. The two presidents will also have a detailed exchange of views on cooperation in connection with Kyrgyzstan’s accession to the Eurasian Economic Union."
So with rumor of Putin's death greatly exaggerated, the trolls decided to promptly latch on to another, even more tabloidy rumor spread by, sure enough, the Swiss Blick.ch tabloid, according to which Putin's 32-year-old "girlfriend" Alina Kabaeva checked into the maternity ward at the Clinica Sant'Anna in Switzerland, where she is due to deliver Putin's child any minute.
Because the rumors must go on.
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careful, there. Russian sources don't deny Russians in Ukraine. They only deny that they are Russian Soldiers in active duty. Or that if, then they are in vacations, or something
there was a moment of truthiness when some Putin spoke about the Crimean "green men", but he later explained his words were misunderstood
Boring
Your side lost. Deal with it
Looks like big, bad Vlad kicked sand in your vagina too.
You are Ghordy need to go buy a douche to relieve your discomfort.
Actually their fighting against Grandmothers and children, or so it seems, considering how many of those they keep trying to kill...
@Leszek and such like trolls, bloody read what there is to read about where the rebels found their weapons and stop being tiresome, for Heaven's sake.
The whole world knows these weapons had been hidden in Ukraine weapon caches during Soviet times in case of a Nato invasion, minus you.
Lea, you accuse him of trolling? fine, but look at my (albeit flippant, I agree) comments in this thread and note the reactions. You Can Not Say Anything Even Remotely Against The Father Of The Russian Nation without great, great gnashing of teeth and downvoting. just saying
(my favourite, so far, is this one: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-13/kremlin-rejects-rumor-putin-ill...
one mention of Polonium, and the "the Kremlin is never wrong" Brigade is in full crying mode. Polonium! Po-lo-ni-um! )
Edit: you see? One mention of Polonium, five downvotes inside a minute. I start to suspect bots. Now I repost, perhaps I can reach -10. POLONIUM!!!
Happy to oblige. :)
but it proves nothing
no, nothing about Polonium and the many deaths can be proven. nevertheless, they died. conspiracy theory does not work one way only
I was talking about your "POLONIUM --> bots" conspiracy theory.
As for the other one, it is valid but needs to be substantiated.
Well, from what I can discern,,, Putin has more Russian interest at heart than the entirety of the usa government including the civil service has towards America. One could include the rest of the Western politicians with respect to their nations.
Ghordius sagt:
Careful with the hyperbole, Ghordius. I'd hate to think you'd descended to a Chindit13 level of drama queenery.
Say whatever you want against Putin. If it is based in fact and verifiable, I'll probably agree with you.
If you keep repeating the same old discredited canards, though, don't expect any sympathy.
Annexation of Crimea? Anyone who has seriously examined what happened knows that it was not annexed. Repetition of a simple lie until it is accepted as truth was a technique favored by a rather infamous European about 8 decades ago. I had rather hoped that you were above falling for such crude methods.
The down arrows for mentioning polonium are deserved, in my opinion. In addition to being another one of those lies repeated until believed, it is one which is easily repeated and reinforced with just a few words. All one has to do is say, "polonium tea," and in the mind of the uninformed reader they are transformed into "Putin is an evil dictator who has anyone that is a minor annoyance to him killed by exotic and diabolical means and oh, by the way, he is Teh Red Commonist Menace® who is determined to take over the world and restore the USSR".
Debunking it (again) is far more time consuming than uttering those two words, and even when links are posted to articles explaining who was behind the Litvinenko poisoning, those whose minds have already been made up will rarely take the time to read anything contrary to their beliefs.
Here's one for you. I'd like to think that you'll read it.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/07/31/theresa-may-raises-an-o...
I've taken the time to compose this response to you as a measure of respect. Those annexation aficionados, polonium parrots, and quoters of crackpot Puss Riot hagiographer Masha Gessen, on the other hand, are barely worth the time it takes to give them a red arrow.
While you give it some thought, here's a snappy little tune from around 1983 that you might enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVf7m_YZ2zY
good joke, Lea! :-)
there are wreckage of modern russian equipment destroyed by Ukrainian Army, there are satellite pictures of hundreds of tanks crossing Russia-Ukraine border, and there are hundreds of dead russian solders
russian propaganda is working non-stop to spread lies, but their efforts are pointless, because you can't hide the truth, it is simply impossible, especially today with all these phones and cameras etc
similar lies were spread about “the little green men” on Crimea
DON'T MENTION LITTLE GREEN MEN IN CRIMEA!!! polonium, polonium, polonium! (just testing a little theory)
You were probably referring to this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSAaiYKF0cs
Let me provide a "control group" for your theory:
LITTLE GREEN MEN IN CRIMEA!!!
polonium, polonium, polonium!
now we've a polish joke making posts.
why not stay at your daytime job selling freedom apples.
I think Putin is an alien.
Show us your birth certificate!
Still waiting for Obama's
I guarantee you that Putin can't be elected President of the United States. He goes to the wrong kind of Christian Church, for starters
I'll bet the KGB can come up with a better birth certificate then that comedic one the Obomber crowd came up with...
What you are missing, and should scare the hell out of you, is the shear efficiency of the US Deep State.
A mediocre forgery was presented to the public (signed by U.K.Lele if my memory serves) knowing that a mediocre job would just irritate the sh*te out those paying attention, but the MSM would provide enough cover to keep the sheep from paying attention.
The fake birth certificate, like the Nobel Peace Prize for the Magic Negro, and his getting elected was a show of strength by those who rule over you.
Like in the Matrix, how can you scream if you have no mouth?
Rove gave the game away.
Seems since they have everyone guessing, they should keep him out of sight for a good long time just to keep the nudniks running around in circles with this distraction.
So glad we got our daily dose of Putin watching - now we can go back to isolating him again.
Hologram.
Unless he is shirtless and riding a bear thru the Siberian tundra, how can we be certain that's Putin?
With all this Putin distraction going on has anyone noticed that Russia has pulled out of the CFE treaty with NATO?
Oddly enough, my understsanding is that only Russia had ratified the treaty in the first place but never the West. And that Russia had already broken it's non-ratified terms back during the invasion of Georgia in 2008.
Where is the Bummer, asks Russia
The White House releases next morning photgraphs of the Bummer with Reggie on the Golf course and with Rahm at the Bathouse.
The US is on the ball and having a gay time too
Delted double entry
Whats with the ZH love affair for Putin?
Serious double-standard when it comes to conspiracy theories
he is sexy, you can find him in poses, he has all the marks of the "Alpha Man"
on the other side, there is a great hunger for anything that challenges the "unclear description here" that ails so many ZH readers
then you have some trolls paid for that, but not many, and I suspect some bots, too
and of course you have all the lies that neoconservatives spread. plenty of funny websites are sponsored by them to keep the masses ignorant. some are even funny. I like the "Vatican Conspiracy", for example, they are hilarious
Jews, Jesuits, Rastafarians, Knights of Malta, Knight of Columbus, Celtic Druids, The Queen of England, Reptoids from outer space, Illumanati, Bilderbergs, Ancient Egyptians, Vietnam Veterans and the ever popular Babylonians...
Kinda hard to keep up with all those rascals running the world. It seems they're all in on it.
And a nod to Hollywood for our lately departed Freddy.
You forgot South Park and their secret Jew messages in each episode.
You forgot my homies the Sumerian colonists from Nibiru
They don't do fiat. Strictly gold
Embedded socialist trolls !
ZH is an antidote to the Israeli run US/western based ''lame stream media''
Oh, give me a home where anti-Semites do roam
Where the commies do troll all day long
Where seldom is heard a West-loving word
And red arrows fall down just like rain
The bigots were pressed from this part of the west,
But alas they always return,
From the banks of Wall Street and soup agencies fleet
Where hasbara campfires burn.
Interesting Russian desk .... one man work .... two men play chess ?
Socialists will lie, steal, cheat, kill for their religion .... like Muslims will for their quasi-religion !
Hey faggot for brains!
You got a different avatar than a green man humping a green man?
A society who even remotely depends upon the continued existance of any individual for its cohesion is asking for trouble.
We are mortal.
There is simply no help for it.
Descent into fantasy helps nothing.
Flu has been going around in Moscow. If Putin had the flu, it is about the right time to be getting over it.
"A society who even remotely depends upon the continued existance of any individual for its cohesion is asking for trouble."
And a society that even remotely depends on the death of any individual is in deep, deep trouble.
Maybe Putin had to take a timeout because he was laughing too hard when he was told this news:
http://www.sovereignman.com/finance/et-tu-britain-united-kingdom-to-join...
"Late yesterday, the government of the United Kingdom announced that they would be applying to join the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank… as a founding member...
...The soon-to-be-live Chinese International Payment System (CIPS) will provide a way for banks to transfer funds to one another without having to use the US banking system… or the US dollar.
China is also the ringleader behind both the BRICS development bank (called the New Development Bank, or NDB) as well as the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
Both of these are multilateral development banks that aim to end the dominance of the western-controlled World Bank and IMF.
NDB includes all the BRICS nations– Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
Founding members of the AIIB include China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, etc. They’re typically all rapidly growing and/or resource-rich developing nations."
He must be feeling totally isolated now!
Notice the members are pretty much the Shanghai Cooperation Organization members, and Russia's economic block members. So Iran, Turkey, and a few others are about to become members of SCO and the UK "USA poodle" just pissed on OB's leg.
Putin Lives! Anyone seen Lloyd Blankfein or Jamie Dimon lately?
No, haven't looked under any rocks lately though.
Watched an interview with Lloyd on CCTV last night.
Putin isn't going to last forever any way you slice it. I hope he has a worthy successor or two in mind. And not Medvedyev - that guy is as qualified to run Russia as a pet cat.
Of course this could have made him a bit ill:
Russia to provide $13.75mn as part of first IMF loan for Ukraine – finance ministerRussia will participate in financing the first tranche of IMF aid to Ukraine in the amount of $13.75 million; the Bank of Russia will deliver the payment on March 13, said Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov.
http://rt.com/business/240517-russia-ukraine-imf-tranche/
polonium
edit. Hmmm, Ghordius is correct!
We tried to poison some folks
"The Phony Litvinenko Murder" William Dunkerley
Trolls your propaganda on ZH could run a Terra watt methane power station.
Putin have been active all the time.
Tiered as he is of USA, EU and NATO, he don't inform them about what he is doing.
He have a website called President of Russia.
http://eng.kremlin.ru/transcripts
Putin have a unbelievable work capacity, all over the planet making new deals without using bullets and bombs.
I have read a shit loaded document called UN agenda 21, and the problem is! I cant find word as democracy and election, what could be if implemented, finding yourself as a part of a global slave labor. Another name is Unipolar world.
Putin is fighting this, and a reason that I support him.
this thred is a perfect example of what it is like to cross the love sick.
bitch slap contest.
How dare you slap me!
Actually I did like Drudge's link to this subject.
I especially appreciate this paragraph, it shows heart.
Early in his presidency, Mr. Putin dropped out of sight when the submarine Kursk sank in 2000 and again two years later when terrorists seized a Moscow theater and took hundreds of hostages. But since those two crises, which spawned all manner of questions about his leadership skills, he has been very much an almost daily public presence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/14/world/europe/russia-putin-seen-in-publ...
is it important to you?
as much butthurt you have...
best deal on ointment for that is Bulgaria generic online
or might be all in your mind...
"Vladimir Putin will meet with President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev in St Petersburg on March 16."
USA sends Richard Miles," the engineer of the first Color Revolution in Serbia and the Rose Revolution in Georgia" to Kyrgyzstan.( quote from article at below link)
http://orientalreview.org/2015/03/05/the-male-nuland-and-the-us-central-asian-strategy-i/
Bloomberg business has President Putin cover again (vs Jeresko)
six pages of
"the American Woman Who Stands Between Putin and Ukriane"
try make sense of that....
then piece about Nemtsov negative to Putin
another about sanctions
then about Pimco fall in Russia
that's a lot of desperation
It seems fairly obvious to me that they are keeping him under wraps because of some potential threat they've detected against him, possibly due to the issues in the Ukraine.
World emabarrassment & hubris continues to plauge this US regime.
Pure Agitprop or a PERSEC security issue is possible. Change & vary routes, times, schedules etc all standard SOP's & TT&P's. The stupid it continues to burn.
Here's a dousey that will surely make headlines soon:
US State Dept Announces "Long-Standing" Policy against Supporting Coups. Journalist Laughs and Laughshttp://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/12/4420
"Immanentize the Eschaton"
Eric Voegelin
Are these the only two photos? If so, it proves nothing. These are from the 'right side'. A stroke would primarily affect his left side functions....We'll see in a few days if we get more photos or videos....
If it is a stoke, praying it is all natural and not an attempt. That would be bad for the world....
Much ignorant here...
Putin Administration is full team, not one.
was from beginning Yelstin handed over leadership
Putin team is very stable centrist...there is others much harder
According to the Hollywood Inquirer, Putin died in 1966 and was replaced by a look alike.
Why don't we get sensational stories like this about Barry? Something about his tranny wife getting the much needed final surgery and scheduled for a "Jerry Springer" episode. Shows title, A Surprise for Barry!
Putin is not sick, just the opposite.
As a Swiss paper reports 32 yo Alina Kabajewa gave birth to Putin's daughter last week, explaining his absence. Though he has not been spotted in Ticino, Italian Switzerland, ma dai, e niente, he was head of the secret service so what is the problem to go to Switzerland under cover for the birth of his daughter.
The best a man can make ... is a child
German language article
Article and cicumstances seem credible enough. It's probably where he is. Meanwhile MSM trying to destablize Russia with their baseless propaganda. They are truly delusional!
Weekend at Bernie's 3? He is dead in those pics.
So the hospitals are so bad in Russian that they have to fly to Switerland to give birth? I smell Bull Shit.
GHORDIUS ON FIRE TODAY!!!
"Putin rejects rumors of Putin's death"
Deutsche Welle: Paternity leave for Putin? Swiss paper's baby rumor causes stir
http://www.dw.de/paternity-leave-for-putin-swiss-papers-baby-rumor-causes-stir/a-18314837
A Swiss newspaper claims to know why the Russian president hasn't been seen in public lately - that his alleged girlfriend has given birth to the couple's third child.
The Telegraph: Vladimir Putin's 'girlfriend has given birth'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/vladimir-putin/11471579/Vladimir-Putins-girlfriend-has-given-birth.html
Citing local residents, Switzerland's Bick tabloid said on Friday that Mr Putin flew to Switzerland to be with Alina Kabaeva, his rumoured lover, as she went into labour at the private Clinic Sant'Anna near Lugano earlier this week.
In ieder land heeft de 3e SpinozaGolf een andere invloed op het collectief bewustzijn. Het Kremlin heeft de media in Moskou al laten weten dat president Vladimir Putin de komende dagen een zeer belangrijke mededeling zal doen. Vyacheslav Lebedev - de voorzitter van het Hooggerechtshof - zal nu ook wel ingewijd zijn in de blauwdruk van het systeem 'Leven en Laten Leven'.
http://www.volkskrant.nl/dossier-vk-dossier-statenverkiezingen/schippers...
In Nederland zijn de verantwoordelijke ministers al afgetreden om zo de weg vrij te maken voor ...?!?!?