A cross depicting Putin’s tomb at a checkpoint outside Dnipro, Ukraine. Photo by Jorge Silva / Reuters
Published October 24, 2023
ladimir Putin is dying from blood cancer. Or thyroid cancer. Or maybe abdominal cancer. No, it is Parkinson’s. He has dementia. He is losing his sight. His limbs are “shaking uncontrollably”. On any given day, depending which news outlets you believe, the Russian president is terminally ill with any number of different diseases. Or perhaps, as several British tabloids have suggested recently, he is already dead.
Citing an unnamed intelligence source at the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service MI6, the Daily Star reported on 28 May that Putin was “very ill”, possibly “already dead”, with the Kremlin using lookalikes to conceal his demise. Not to be outdone, the Sunday Mirror followed up the next day with its own wholly unverified assertions under the headline, “Vladimir Putin may already be dead with body double taking his place, MI6 chiefs claim.”
The rumours about Putin’s decline spread so far and so fast that Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was forced to deny them during an interview with the French television channel TF1. “President Vladimir Putin makes public appearances on a daily basis,” Lavrov said, according to the Russian news agency Tass. “You can see him on TV screens, read and listen to his speeches. I don’t think that a sane person can suspect any signs of an illness or ailment in this man.”
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SOURCE: https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/ukraine/2023/10/is-vladimir-putin-dead-cardiac-arrest
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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairing a Security Council meeting via a video link in Moscow on October 20, 2023. A rumor was shared via Telegram channel General SVR this week that Putin had suffered a cardiac arrest.GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/POOL/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Published October 24, 2023
Several news outlets reported a rumor this week that Russian President Vladimir Putin had suffered a cardiac arrest, collapsing in the presidential bedroom.
The reports added that the 71-year-old Russian leader had to be resuscitated and taken to a special intensive care unit after security heard him falling to the floor.
Putin’s health has been a subject of rumor for years, with Kremlin secrecy letting speculation run unbound. Interviews and recorded meetings with other world leaders have often been scrutinized for clues hinting at whether he may be sick or terminally ill.
This latest report attracted the attention of journalists around the world. Indian magazine Business Today’s headline read “Russian President Vladimir Putin suffers cardiac arrest, collapses in bedroom: Report.” “Vladimir Putin ‘resuscitated’ after having ‘cardiac arrest’ claims Telegram channel,” wrote British tabloid Daily Mirror. The New Statesman, a U.K. newsmagazine, republished an article from June 2022 titled “Is Vladimir Putin Dead?”
However, the report was sourced from a social media channel that has been linked to a series of unevidenced and occasionally highly implausible rumors about Putin.
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SOURCE: https://www.newsweek.com/putin-health-cardiac-arrest-russia-what-we-know-1837220
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Reporters asked Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov about Putin’s health following an unsourced report by a Russian Telegram channel, picked up by some Western media, that the president had suffered a serious health episode on Sunday evening.
Published October 24, 2023
Moscow: The Kremlin on Tuesday denied a report that President Vladimir Putin was ill, and laughed off persistent rumours that he used body doubles to cover for him in public appearances.
“Everything is fine with him, this is absolutely another fake,”…Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when asked about an unsourced report by a Russian Telegram channel, picked up by some Western media, that the president had suffered a serious health episode that some described as a “cardiac arrest” on Sunday evening.
The spokesman laughed in response to a further question about body doubles, and denied that Putin had any.
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