Waar is Putin? #2

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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 zaterdag 14 maart 2015 21:41 schreef SureD1 het volgende:
Over die tanks: nee zegt niks inderdaad... ooit stonden ze er wel...wellicht vandaag, wellicht eerder...

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 21:44 schreef nummer_zoveel het volgende:
Wel vreemd dat hij nu al zolang van de radar verdwenen is.
Maar ja, Rusland, hij kan ook opeens zo weer opduiken zonder dat er een verklaring voor wordt gegeven.

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 23:50 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Dit oa.

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Russianspringru twitterde op zaterdag 14-03-2015 om 00:44:28 16 MARCH 2015"WE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD""FOREVER"#RUSSIANSPRINGMaximum RT http://t.co/KLHYcQxq0a reageer retweet

maar ook @aavst Aleksei Venediktov een invloedrijke journo heeft gezegd dat er maandag meer info komt:

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MarQs__ twitterde op zaterdag 14-03-2015 om 21:12:45 Well-connected head of Ekho radio station confirms that there'll be news about #Putin in 48 hours (Monday evening) http://t.co/6YzxykUS8c reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 23:40 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Dat verhaal over dat vriendinnetje is in ieder geval debunked

[ afbeelding ]

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Op zaterdag 14 maart 2015 23:59 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Mwa, denk dat de woordvoerder de vragen over Putin zo beu was dat hij dacht, even hun weekend verknoeien.

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wierdduk twitterde op zondag 15-03-2015 om 00:12:55 Goed, het nieuws is dat Vladimir Poetin is afgezet door grijze kardinaal-annex-havik Sergej Ivanov en een groep generaals. #Kremlinologie reageer retweet

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Op zondag 15 maart 2015 01:01 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Wierd lijkt ingevoerd, maar hij "rehashed" het gerucht dat Illarionov lanceerde...

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wierdduk twitterde op zondag 15-03-2015 om 01:11:52 Volgens Alexandr Rahr, die Poetin goed kent, gaat het om Medvedevs positie en is VVP op vakantie: http://t.co/BUm6Q4PZ9C reageer retweet

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Chaos and cracks behind the Putin regime - Business Insider

putin medvedevRIA Novosti/ReutersShake-up at the Kremlin.

There's something going on behind the scenes in the Kremlin.

There's something going on behind the scenes in the Kremlin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin hasn't been seen in public since March 5. (Video featuring Putin on March 13 was not live.)

Analysts are speculating that his absence suggests there may be a power struggle behind it all. And it appears as though Boris Nemtsov's murder could have been the catalyst in all of this.

On March 12, Reuters reported that the murder of opposition figure Boris Nemtsov has "exposed rarely seen tensions between different camps inside President Vladimir Putin's system of rule."

"Some of Nemtsov's associates say his shooting is being used by one faction to send Putin a message that they are unhappy and need to be reckoned with," Reuters reported.

Additionally, former economic policy adviser to Putin and current senior fellow at the Cato Institute, Andrey Illarionov, wrote on his blog that Putin's continued absence suggests a palace coup.

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Business Insider reached out to Alexander Rahr, a German political analyst who was Putin's biographer and advised the former German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher on his efforts to help secure Khodorkovsky's release, on his thoughts on what's going on behind the scenes.

He said that factions within the power structure have become visible, there likely to be some power change-ups, and that "fights over the number two position" — aka Medvedev — have "exploded!"

The public might never know what's actually going on behind in the Moscow power structure behind Putin's absence. In any case, the cracks in the empire are starting to show.

Business Insider: What exactly is going on right now with Putin?

Alexander Rahr: Putin is not dead. All this incorrect information is the Ukrainian press. Next week, he'll reappear. He just took a vacation for a week. No one has said anything about this because it's hard to explain to the public.

BI: And what's going on with Medvedev — does anyone have bad relations with him? I've noticed many of the tentative reforms he made were overturned after Putin returned to the presidency.

Rahr: During his presidency, Medvedev split up the powerful elite, the siloviki [BI note: "Siloviki" is a Russian term for politicians from security or military services, such as the FSB or Soviet KGB] lost their influence. Now they are catching up. Medvedev decides almost nothing, but Putin will not fire him, because, for Putin, there is no more loyal person than Medvedev.

There won't be huge change-ups [in the Kremlin], but there will be some. I think that they'll kick out the prosecutor general [Yury Chaika]. The head of the MVD [Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev] will lose his post. They might bring back [Russian economist, former minister of economics and trade, and current president of Sberbank German] Gref instead of the [first deputy prime minister of Medvedev's cabinet] Shuvalov.

putin medvedevEduard Korniyenko/Reuters

BI: You mentioned in a Facebook comment that "fights over the No. 2 position have exploded!" — that's about Medvedev, correct?

Rahr: Yes. The thing is that the battle between different factions has now become noticeable. Someone wants to quickly get rid of Medvedev. After all, if something happens to Putin, then Medvedev automatically becomes the acting president ...

BI: And what would you say is the mood in the Kremlin after Nemtsov's murder?

Rahr: Nemtsov was murdered in the same way as [journalist] Politkovskaya. The Chechens and people in the Siloviki structures. I think that Nemtsov angered too many people — the nationalists in Donbass and the Islamists in Chechnya. Just like Politkovskaya.

There's something going on behind the scenes in...
Bron: uk.businessinsider.com

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Op zondag 15 maart 2015 01:26 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Die had ik ook gezien...

Rahr zegt: All this incorrect information is the Ukrainian press. Maar wat ik zie is dat de twitterende wereld een optrekkend weekend heeft, ik zie geen malicieuze spins of iets dergelijks.

Kern van Illariov's verhaal was ook dat het om Medvedev ging toch?

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Op zondag 15 maart 2015 01:31 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Het is als die tipgevers rond de roulette tafel, kiezen een willekeurig nummer (theorie), hebben ze per toeval gelijk, dan krijgen ze een flinke fooi (reputatie).

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Op zondag 15 maart 2015 01:33 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Dit ja maar wat ik zeg, een optrekkend weekend...zelfs het feit dat de lichten uit zijn op het Kremlin is nieuws nu...

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Op zondag 15 maart 2015 01:36 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Ik hou het bij gezondheidsproblemen, misschien een griep met complicaties. Al zullen er waarschijnlijk ook intriges bezig zijn gezien de economische en politieke situatie.

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Op zondag 15 maart 2015 01:39 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Dan zoui de president van Armenië ook in het complot moeten zitten, die meldt op de officële website dat hij op 12/3 met Putin gebeld heeft.

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Op zondag 15 maart 2015 01:45 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Persbericht is nagenoeg identiek aan dat wat op de website van het Kremlin staat, net onder het verslag van VVP's meeting met de opperrechter... Kwam uit JBC zijn rondreis niet naar boven dat Armenië bestaat bij de gratie van Rusland? (Kan best dat ik Kaukasische republieken door elkaar haal). Misschien worden dit soort persberichten dagen van te voren gekeurd/klaargezet...

VVP moet zo ongeveer doen wat Castro altijd deed (op de foto met de krant van vandaag) om te overtuigen...

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Op zondag 15 maart 2015 01:50 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

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Armenie is inderdaad Russisch gezind

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Op zondag 15 maart 2015 01:54 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

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Eerder wapens voor de strijd tegen Azerbaijan

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Op zondag 15 maart 2015 01:56 schreef Repelsteeltju het volgende:

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Armenen zijn geen Slaven.

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Op zondag 15 maart 2015 01:56 schreef Repelsteeltju het volgende:

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Armenen zijn geen Slaven. Of ze aan kusjes doen weet ik niet.

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Op zondag 15 maart 2015 01:59 schreef Repelsteeltju het volgende:

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Op de basisschool had ik een Armeens klasgenootje dat helemaal uit zijn pan flipte als je dat zei.