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RUSSIA'S PUTIN REAPPEARS AFTER 10 DAY ABSENCE
16:04, 16 March, 2015
YEREVAN, MARCH 16, ARMENPRESS. Life would be boring without rumors,
Vladimir Putin said after appearing on public in St Petersburg
on Monday.
As reports "Armenpress" citing RT, Putin met his Kyrgyz counterpart
Almazbek Atambayev on Monday in his first public meeting open to the
press since March 5.
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov mocked all the rumors about his boss's
alleged disappearance.
"Have you seen the president [Putin] crushed with paralysis and
captured by the generals?" Peskov asked the journalists, smiling,"
[He] just arrived from Switzerland where he was delivering babies,
as you know."
When a representative of western media asked Peskov about a foreign
doctor arriving to Russian President, the spokesman said the doctor
in question "was among the generals who captured Putin."
The Kremlin is not going to comment on Putin's state of health,
Peskov said Monday.
"We've said 10 times, we can't comment anymore," he told journalists,
adding that the more comments that are released, the more fantastic
theories are being invented.
Earlier social media were boiling with tweets and blogposts about the
mysterious alleged disappearance of the Russian leader. After Putin
canceled a meeting with German chancellor Angela Merkel on March 11,
sympathetic users suggested he may have been ill. This theory was
denied by the Kremlin.
Other users who joined the 'Russian-invasion-is-coming' mood wrote
that Putin was preparing for a full-scale war.
Among the speculative theories was that Putin's alleged girlfriend
and ex-Olympic champion gymnast, Alina Kabaeva, had given birth to a
baby and that the Russian leader had abandoned the whole country for
paternity leave. The UK's Daily Mirror even reported that a baby girl,
a love child, has recently been born at a clinic in Switzerland.
The New York Daily News went one further, and wrote that it's not
even the first baby of the couple, as they also had two kids together,
wrote Corriere Del Ticino, a Swiss newspaper.
In the meantime, Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the mass
media fuss just a "Spring exacerbation."
"No need to worry, everything is all right. He has working meetings all
the time, only not all of these meetings are public," Dmitry Peskov
said Thursday in an interview with Echo of Moscow radio. He added
that the president is "absolutely healthy" and that "his handshake
is so strong he breaks hands with it."
Several tabloids speculated about Putin's alleged problems at work
in the Kremlin. They wrote that Putin had been overthrown by a coup
or security agencies in Moscow. The Interpreter wrote that, while
some Russians were posting photos on social media showing tanks near
the Kremlin.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/797825/russias-putin-reappears-after-10-day-absence.html
From: A. Papazian
16:04, 16 March, 2015
YEREVAN, MARCH 16, ARMENPRESS. Life would be boring without rumors,
Vladimir Putin said after appearing on public in St Petersburg
on Monday.
As reports "Armenpress" citing RT, Putin met his Kyrgyz counterpart
Almazbek Atambayev on Monday in his first public meeting open to the
press since March 5.
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov mocked all the rumors about his boss's
alleged disappearance.
"Have you seen the president [Putin] crushed with paralysis and
captured by the generals?" Peskov asked the journalists, smiling,"
[He] just arrived from Switzerland where he was delivering babies,
as you know."
When a representative of western media asked Peskov about a foreign
doctor arriving to Russian President, the spokesman said the doctor
in question "was among the generals who captured Putin."
The Kremlin is not going to comment on Putin's state of health,
Peskov said Monday.
"We've said 10 times, we can't comment anymore," he told journalists,
adding that the more comments that are released, the more fantastic
theories are being invented.
Earlier social media were boiling with tweets and blogposts about the
mysterious alleged disappearance of the Russian leader. After Putin
canceled a meeting with German chancellor Angela Merkel on March 11,
sympathetic users suggested he may have been ill. This theory was
denied by the Kremlin.
Other users who joined the 'Russian-invasion-is-coming' mood wrote
that Putin was preparing for a full-scale war.
Among the speculative theories was that Putin's alleged girlfriend
and ex-Olympic champion gymnast, Alina Kabaeva, had given birth to a
baby and that the Russian leader had abandoned the whole country for
paternity leave. The UK's Daily Mirror even reported that a baby girl,
a love child, has recently been born at a clinic in Switzerland.
The New York Daily News went one further, and wrote that it's not
even the first baby of the couple, as they also had two kids together,
wrote Corriere Del Ticino, a Swiss newspaper.
In the meantime, Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the mass
media fuss just a "Spring exacerbation."
"No need to worry, everything is all right. He has working meetings all
the time, only not all of these meetings are public," Dmitry Peskov
said Thursday in an interview with Echo of Moscow radio. He added
that the president is "absolutely healthy" and that "his handshake
is so strong he breaks hands with it."
Several tabloids speculated about Putin's alleged problems at work
in the Kremlin. They wrote that Putin had been overthrown by a coup
or security agencies in Moscow. The Interpreter wrote that, while
some Russians were posting photos on social media showing tanks near
the Kremlin.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/797825/russias-putin-reappears-after-10-day-absence.html
From: A. Papazian