Waar is Putin?

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Kremlin says Putin healthy, dismisses illness rumors | Reuters

MOSCOW Thu Mar 12, 2015 9:13am EDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the Kremlin in Moscow, March 5, 2015.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is in good health, the Kremlin said on Thursday, dismissing rumors that the leader was suffering from an illness after a foreign trip was canceled.

A Kazakh governmental source said Putin's trip to Astana scheduled for this week was canceled because Putin had fallen ill, stirring speculation on social media that something had happened to the 62-year-old leader.

Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, asked by Reuters if the president was in good health, replied "yes".

"He has meetings all the time," he said by telephone. "He has meetings today, tomorrow. I don't know which ones we will make public."

Russian politics, through the Soviet era and beyond, has traditionally been fertile ground for rumor because of the secrecy surrounding leaders, not least their health.

The daily RBK said Putin had not been seen on live television since a March 5 meeting with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Photographs on the Kremlin website showed him at meetings dated March 10 and March 11.

On Wednesday, Putin was due to meet a delegation of officials from Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia.

"They didn't take off," said an official familiar with the arrangements. "They headed out in the morning but did not make it to the plane because they were told it was postponed."

The meeting had been rescheduled for March 18.

FIRM HAND

Markets shrugged off the rumors about Putin, and the rouble was trading slightly stronger on Thursday.

The last time Putin's health was in the spotlight was in 2012. Three sources told Reuters that Putin, seen limping in public, was suffering back pain. The Kremlin denied any such ailment.

Putin was not the only subject of rumor on Wednesday.

The editor in chief of Nezavisimaya newspaper tweeted late on Wednesday that he had been told that Putin's ally Igor Sechin, the chief executive officer of Rosneft (ROSN.MM) Russia's largest oil producer, would be fired on Thursday.

A Rosneft spokesman described the remark as wrong.

Peskov, asked by Ekho Moskvy if the president's handshake remained firm, answered: "handbreakingly so."

"Some people are dreaming of Sechin's resignation, some of the resignation of the government and some haven't seen president Putin for several days on television," Peskov told Tass news agency.

(Reporting by Maria Kiselyova, Vladimir Soldatkin, Lidia Kelly and Denis Dyomkin, Writing by Thomas Grove; editing by Ralph Boulton)

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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2015 11:55 schreef egeltje1985 het volgende:
Ik denk ziek. Als ie dood was kunnen ze dat niet heel lang verborgen houden, lijkt me.

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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2015 12:00 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

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russian_market twitterde op vrijdag 13-03-2015 om 10:52:10 Hoppla! @L0gg0l: Swiss Rumors: Putin absence due to girlfriend Alina giving birth in Ticino http://t.co/vZnGDH1Qys http://t.co/5TvXSdvd1H reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2015 12:03 schreef egeltje1985 het volgende:

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ja zou goed kunnen inderdaad. dan zullen ze het toch wel binnenkort naar buiten moeten brengen lijkt me.

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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2015 12:10 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

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Volgens het Kremlin is hij vandaag gewoon in Moskou.

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rConflictNews twitterde op vrijdag 13-03-2015 om 11:42:37 PHOTO: Kremlin posts image said to be from today of Putin meeting with head of RU Supreme Court http://t.co/AOPZ1uY12V - @L0gg0l reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2015 12:19 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

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Ik zeg ook niet dat wat het Kremlin zegt de waarheid is

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Vladimir Putin’s spokesman has been forced to deny that the 62-year-old president is in poor health after a string of meetings were cancelled and the Kremlin published old photographs to claim work was proceeding as usual.

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Kind soll schon auf der Welt seinPutins geheime Baby-Mission im Tessin

SORENGO - TI - Die Ger�chte um Neu-Papi Putin verdichten sich: Schon mehrmals soll die schwangere Alina Kabajewa im Tessin gesehen worden sein. Anfang Woche habe sie f�r die Entbindung im Spital eingecheckt.

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Op vrijdag 13 maart 2015 17:27 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Vandaag bracht het Kremlin een filmpje naar buiten van een meeting tussen Putin en de chairman van de supreme court. Echter is die video al een jaar (!) oud.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/putins-reappearance-lie-hes-sight-150453763.html

Update, Peskov laat weer van zich horen, geen baby voor Putin, dat noemt hij 'onzin'

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Waar Putin dan wel is?