Is Vladimir Putin sick?
Secret service classifies excrement as a state secret
Created: 06/12/2022Updated: 06/12/2022 09:59
By: Felix Busjaeger
Recording from June 7: Vladimir Putin in a video conference © Mikhail Metzel/Imago
Vladimir Putin's state of health is causing concern.
It has now become known that the President's bowel movements have been being transported to Russia for years.
MOSCOW – Is Russia's President Vladimir Putin ill?
The western world has been asking itself this question again and again since the outbreak of the Ukraine war.
Numerous rumors about the state of health of the Kremlin ruler were already doing the rounds.
It has sometimes been suggested that Putin is suffering from cancer or is shaken by Parkinson's disease.
But Russia's president himself repeatedly ensures that there is speculation about his condition: For decades, the former Russian spy has been trying to keep his physical condition a big secret.
Apparently, this even goes so far that Putin has a bodyguard for his bowel movements.
This is reported
by kreiszeitung.de
.
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As several media reports, the protection provided by the FSO secret service goes far beyond the security of Vladimir Putin.
The French magazine
Paris Match
recently wrote that the head of the Kremlin has several security officers who have a special task: when traveling abroad, they are responsible for ensuring that Putin's excrement and urine are returned to Russia.
But that's not all: Vladimir Putin usually takes far more far-reaching precautionary measures for his trips abroad: According to Stern
, the Russian investigative journalist Farida Rustamova reported
years ago that the Russian president would like to use his own toilet when traveling abroad.
If possible, Putin would travel with his own porta potti.
Oligarchs have already fueled the cancer rumors about their president with the words "We hope he dies of it".
Putin's urine and excrement in a special case back to Russia: President leaves nothing to chance
But why does Vladimir Putin apparently leave nothing to chance?
Although Russia's president can hardly travel at the moment because of the Ukraine war and the sanctions imposed on him, the head of government made sure to leave as few traces as possible.
Because these could be used against him in case of doubt.
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Urine and stool can reveal a lot about their former owner in the laboratory.
The intestinal flora can be used to identify diseases, among other things.
In order not to give his enemies an advantage against him, Putin is said to have been counting on his excrement being bagged and brought back to Russia in a special suitcase since 2017.
Nevertheless, the secrecy doesn't necessarily help to silence the rumors about Putin's state of health.
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Should Putin really be ill and the Kremlin chief's potentially precarious state of health become public, this could lead to unrest and, in the worst case, shake the foundations of internal stability.
No wonder Putin is trying to cover up possible illnesses.
Nevertheless, there is always speculation about the health of Russia's president - also against the background of the Ukraine war.
Only in April did it become known that Putin had been treated by several specialists for several years and that there were indications of various types of cancer.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently denied rumors about Putin's health.
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Apparently, Putin is said to not only rely on conventional medicine for his health care: Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is said to have mentioned in a report that Russia's President Putin would regularly bathe in deer antler blood.
A suspected Kremlin insider is also said to have published further details about Vladimir Putin's health.
Allegedly, some time ago he underwent a successful cancer operation, because of which Putin is said to have "disappeared" in the middle of the Ukraine war.
Report on Putin's health: 'urgent medical help' for Russia's president
According to the Telegram channel
General SVR
, Vladimir Putin is said to have sought "urgent medical assistance".
In addition to merkur.de, the
Dailymail
also reported on the information.
Accordingly, the Russian President is said to have complained of “severe nausea, weakness and dizziness” after a meeting.
His medical team is said to have advised him not to attend “lengthy” public appointments.
Although information about Vladimir Putin's health status cannot be independently verified, it may also be the reason why Putin's annual question and answer session with Russian citizens was cancelled.
