Putin And Cancer - Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony at the Grand Kremlin Palace on June 12, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Contributor / Getty Images)
Speculation regarding the health of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has run rampant in recent years. Before February, it was in the realm of gossip.
Putin And Cancer
However, the issue gained momentum after Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine. Soon, activists, journalists and even the intelligence services were publicly sharing information about the dictator's health – and the effects it was having on the war.
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The biggest revelation came in May when pro-Kremlin filmmaker Oliver Stone said on a podcast that Putin was a cancer patient.
Putin had this cancer and I think he has recovered," Stone said, becoming the first person directly linked to the Russian dictator to acknowledge his alleged health problems.
The closest evidence came in 2021 when Russian investigative journalists found that Putin was accompanied by a large team of doctors, including thyroid cancer specialists, on a trip to Russia.
"We fully confirm this information (that Putin has cancer)," Kirillo Budanov, head of Ukraine's military intelligence service, told online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda in May. “He has many serious ailments including cancer. But we should not expect that Putin will die tomorrow. He has at least several years ahead of him, whether we like it or not."
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Unverified rumors that Putin has cancer or some other serious illness have been circulating since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the Russian dictator significantly reduced his public appearances. Soon he was back in public, meeting his counterparts and domestic thugs behind ridiculously long tables.
Even shaking hands with the general public has disappeared from Putin's life. Opponents of the dictator claim that Putin spends most of his time in a special compound, a kind of bunker, where he is isolated from the real world.
In his guest essay for the New York Times, Mikhail Ziger, a noted Russian journalist and author of "All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin", wrote that "Putin spent the spring and summer of 2020 in quarantine. At his residence in Valdai, about halfway between Moscow and St. Petersburg.'
"His guards enforced a strict protocol: no one could see the president without a week's quarantine – not even Igor Sechin, once his personal secretary, now head of the state oil company Rosneft," Ziger wrote. "Sechin is said to self-quarantine for two or three weeks a month, all in order to meet occasionally with the president."
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Zeiger wrote that he believed that right then and there the reclusive Putin decided to launch a full-scale, brutal war against Ukraine.
Putin's apparent paranoia about meeting people during a pandemic was when the first major rumors emerged that Putin's health was failing.
But with the Kremlin tight-lipped about the dictator's health, the question of whether Putin would see tomorrow was answered by dubious people of dubious reputation, including Valery Solovyov, a former Russian professor turned political pundit, and several Opposition activists were involved, to whom they were forced. leave. of the country by the Putin regime.
The first reliable information about Putin's health came from Stone, the Oscar-winning director turned conspiracy theorist and worldwide supporter of the dictatorship.
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Stone, who interviewed Putin several times between 2015 and 2019 and produced several pro-Kremlin documentaries, said in an interview on the Lex Friedman podcast that aired in May that the dictator had cancer but was now believed to be recovering. went. isolated from humans during epidemics.
In June, Newsweek, citing its sources, reported that a classified US intelligence report suggested Putin had undergone cancer treatment in April. The magazine cited three intelligence officials: one in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, a retired senior Air Force officer and one from the Defense Intelligence Agency.
"If we talk about Solovyov's statements, there is no point in discussing them," Russian political analyst Dmitry Oreshkin told the Kyiv Independent. "But Western intelligence is another matter, it makes sense to discuss it."
He said that Western intelligence has at least got some things right – for example, predicting Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine.
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However, the report was quickly dismissed by a spokesman for the US National Security Council. Additionally, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns, said in July that Putin was in good health.
Even though intelligence reports on Putin's cancer do exist, it is not clear whether they can be fully trusted.
"This should be approached with caution," Oreshkin said, adding that it may be in the West's interest to anticipate Putin's imminent death. However, he added that "Western intelligence agencies will not lie outright."
Sergei Sazonov, a Russian-born political philosopher at the University of Tartu in Estonia, was even more skeptical. He told the Kyiv Independent that he had doubts about the quality of Western intelligence.
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US intelligence has made mistakes in the past. Following Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine, American media, citing American intelligence, reported that Kyiv was likely to fall within days.
Similarly, false intelligence was provided to the US about the alleged weapons of mass destruction of the late dictator Saddam Hussein and the illnesses of the late Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Newsweek reported in June that such information is often provided by America's own enemies to spread misinformation in their own interests.
In addition to explicit claims that Putin suffers from a terminal illness, some circumstantial evidence of his deteriorating health has emerged.
According to the story, Putin is obsessed with his health and has had an average of five doctors with him regularly since at least 2016.
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One of the doctors was Yevgeny Selivanov, a specialist in thyroid cancer. Putin was accompanied by an otolaryngologist who reportedly diagnosed thyroid diseases, including cancer, the project reported. In 2020, Putin met publicly with the head of the National Research Endocrinology Center, Ivan Dedov.
According to the project, Putin also has a penchant for alternative medicine. Specifically, he bathes in the extract of blood from the antlers of severed deer.
In Putin's Russia, the unproven drug has become widespread during the Covid-19 pandemic, with officials ordering devices that "reduce the spread of the coronavirus with electromagnetic fields" and silver medical particles during official events The hosts handing out the masks. Both the devices have been dismissed as having no effect on the spread of the coronavirus.
However, despite the fact that Putin has few health problems, some signs of his health problems can be attributed to his age – he will turn 70 in October.
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New York neurologist Mike Mirer told Russian anti-Putin columnist Yulia Latynina in July that cancer is common among Soviet men of Putin's age and social group, most of whom had unhealthy diets.
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Oleg Sukhov is a political reporter at the Kyiv Independent. He is a former editor and reporter for The Moscow Times. He has a master's degree in history from Moscow State University. He moved to Ukraine in 2014 because of Russia's crackdown on independent media and covered war, corruption, reform and law enforcement for the Kyiv Post.
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FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin presides over a meeting with the leadership of the military-industrial complex operations in Tula, (via Reuters)
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Putin is being kept alive by Western treatments to slow the spread of cancer, according to Russian historian and political analyst Valery Solovyov, according to a report in the New York Post.
"I can say that without this [foreign] treatment he certainly would not be in public life in the Russian Federation," Solovyov told Ukrainian media, according to the New York Post.
"He uses the most advanced treatments [and] targeted therapy that Russia cannot provide him," the report said.
The publication reported that Russian historian and political analyst Valery Solovyov told Odessa Film Studio, a Ukrainian YouTube channel, that it is "certain" that Putin is receiving special treatment that is not available in Russia.
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