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PARIS, June 17 — Bloodbaths drawn from Siberian deer antlers. Excrement collected through unwavering officials to escape analysis. Mysterious absences for emergency medical care.
The claims made about the suitability of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who turns 70 in October, are sinister and macabre, as if to prove.
But they illustrate how little is known about the fitness of a leader whose state of fitness is basic to Europe’s long-term, especially since he ordered the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
During Putin’s two decades in power, very little has been known about his health, beyond the prominent symbols provided by the Kremlin that show him shirtless as a symbol of macho strength.
But the scrutiny is now greater with the war Putin has unleashed against Russia’s neighbor.
What are the claims?
The ultimate in-depth investigation into Putin’s fitness published in April through the Russian-language news site Proekt, which used open-source knowledge to conclude that the president’s trips to the southern Sochi hotel were synchronized with those of a large number of doctors.
Among them was thyroid cancer specialist Yevgeny Selivanov, whose visits to Sochi coincided with Putin’s sudden absences from the public eye in recent years.
He also alleged that one of the strategies Putin used to ensure longevity was bloodbaths drawn from deer antlers in Siberia, an approach through his friend Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, originally from Siberia.
French weekly Paris Match said this month that on his visits to Saudi Arabia in 2019 and France in 2017, Putin was accompanied by a team every time he went to the bathroom, to maintain his excretions so that no foreign force could simply medically analyze his urine or feces.
Even more sensational, U. S. news publication Newsweek said in June that Putin had undergone treatment for a complex cancer in April, bringing out U. S. intelligence. The U. S. National Security Council The U. S. government has denied the lifestyles of such briefings.
The Ukrainian army’s intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, in a mid-May interview with Sky News, claimed there was evidence that Putin had cancer.
Proekt also alleged that the Kremlin set up a fake workplace in Sochi that claimed to resemble that of his apartment in the Moscow suburbs to give the impression that he was running in the Russian capital instead of resting in the Black Sea resort.
What’s there?
The only time the Kremlin showed putin was suffering from a physical problem was in the fall of 2012, when he canceled several meetings and disappeared from public life after he was noticed moving awkwardly.
The Kremlin at the time said it stretched a muscle and a newspaper said it was bothered by a challenge in the back while flying with cranes on a motorized hang glider. But Proekt says this is where his main fitness challenges began.
The Covid-19 pandemic has also noticed a strange custom in the component of the Russian leader.
The Kremlin said he had been vaccinated, but unlike almost all other world leaders, no symbol ever came out of his vaccine. Those who approached him, including journalists, were subject to the strictest precautions, such as quarantine days.
Visiting world leaders who have accepted the Kremlin’s strict situations, such as French President Emmanuel Macron and UN leader Antonio Guterres, have been banned at the end of a now strangely long table.
Those who accepted the Kremlin’s demands, adding a Russian Covid test and, in all likelihood, a quarantine, such as Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, received a handshake and even a hug.
A meeting with Shoigu on Ukraine last April also fueled rumors that Putin was clinging tightly to the table in what some saw as an attempt to avoid frame tremors. Numerous videos also showed one of Putin’s feet writhing in meetings.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin postponed Putin’s annual verbal telephone exchange with the Russian people, scheduled for June, to a later date without explanation.
At his 2020 annual press conference, only a handful of hounds, quarantined and pre-screened, were able to enter the room with him, while others concentrated in another room.
In 2021, the event returned to its same previous format, but with a large distance between the front row of journalists and Putin’s office. Even now, as government affairs become widespread again in most parts of the world, Putin directs most of the video on national affairs.
What does the Kremlin say?
The Kremlin, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, has vehemently denied all claims that the Russian president suffers from a serious health problem.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took the same step in an interview with French TV channel TF1 last May to deny that Putin was ill, saying, “I don’t think practically other people can see symptoms of any kind of illness or discomfort in this person. “. ” and claiming that the Russian leader gave the impression in public “every day. “
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, ostracized in the West but a common interlocutor with Putin, insisted in a Japanese television interview in March that the Russian leader had health problems.
“If you think something is with President Putin or that something has happened, you are, as they say, the ultimate pitiful user on earth,” he said.
In recent public appearances, a forum on Peter the Great and an assembly with Turkmen President Serdar Berdymukhamedov, Putin has also shown no signs of physical frailty.
Why is this important?
Putin remains Russia’s undisputed leader and most observers expect him to seek a third consecutive term in 2014, following recent questionable constitutional changes that allow him to do so.
There is no apparent successor and, as commander-in-chief of Russian forces, it is Putin’s resolve to invade Ukraine on February 24.
“The country doesn’t know a word of fact about the physical and emotional fitness of the user who executes it,” said Proekt editor-in-chief Roman Badanin.
“The entire planet does not know if a user who can destroy all of humanity with an urgent red button is healthy. ” — AFP