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Mark Sleboda ‏@MarkSleboda1 3m3 minutes ago
Re: #PutinIsDead hysteria. Pray not. W this US regime's propensity for assassination as fp tool, suspicion would fall on US. WW3 anybody?


Yury Barmin ‏@yurybarmin 57m57 minutes ago
"A credible source" says that #Putin has cancer, health deteriorated. Nemtsov killed due to fighting inside elites http://theins.ru/news/4521

Still all rumor. Hope it's not true.

Just off the top of my head: Arafat, Castro, Chavez, Ruby.

If so it would be perfectly legal by the new Nazi assassination laws.


Simple as labeling him an enemy combatant.


(You forgot Marley)

The "reliable source" quoted above has withdrawn his statement. Apparently, he had no proof. He had heard a rumor.

I'm sure some one is working on this even if it is not true this time. ::trenchcoatspy::

See http://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/geruechte-um-p...1.18501421 (in German)

Without further comment.

Well, that's much nicer to be a daddy than to have cancer. Mazeltov Vladimir! L'chaim!

Though Kremlin denies it. But his private life is pretty much off limits any way.

Lot's of buzz continuing on Twitter. The most benign rumors are that there is a new Putin in the world and then they go from there.

Some observers note that there seems to be unusual activity around the Defense Dept. and around the Kremlin, which has been having large trucks coming and going. The most innocent explanation is that it has to do with a celebration about the one year anniversary of the annexing of Crimea. Of course, it could be new baby furniture.

from a Polish newspaper using auto-translate:

Quote:Russian Internet users have observed over Moscow government increased traffic helicopters. He immediately joined it with the mysterious disappearance of Vladimir Putin.

The mysterious disappearance of Vladimir Putin led the Russian Internet for spinning conspiracy theories. In their opinion, most recently over Moscow will see increased traffic helicopters. As reported tvn24.pl, the Special Telecommunications Service helicopters president , which allows authorities to supervision of nuclear forces, both landed in the Kremlin, as well as crisis management center. The military helicopters landed in the headquarters of the FSB , as well as in several other districts of the Russian capital.

After Moscow, so the rumors go that the President is seriously ill and had a stroke. Others have suggested a military coup and the state seizure of power by hardliners generals . Putin was in this scenario become hostage to the Kremlin.

Meanwhile, to calm the mood and show that Vladimir Putin is alive and ruled the country, the Kremlin gave information about his conversation with the President of Armenia. The authorities in Yerevan confirmed that indeed the telephone took place.

With the reports of all the activity around the Kremlin and the Defense Department, it I was reminded of the initial reports around the Cuban Missile Crisis, which were the reports of USG leaders being called to the White House on a Sunday. Col Cassad is guessing the same thing is happening -- this time in Moscow. (Computer translation)

Quote:

On the topic of persistent questions in the comments on the topic of "Putin's disappearance" from the media.

In my subjective opinion, in the next few days he will appear in public, and this appearance will be associated with the development of the situation in Ukraine, which is now on the verge of a major war. Actually, it seems to me, the actual breakdown of the Minsk Agreement junta is in itself sufficient reason to think and prepare for certain decisions.

Officially, today is the last date when the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine may adopt a resolution on the implementation of the special status of the former Donetsk and Lugansk regions - if the decision will not be accepted today, it directly violates the "package of measures to implement the Minsk Agreement." Tomorrow begins the same way, and noted earlier time period from 15 to 20 March, in connection with which the various sources indicate that these days possible to resume large-scale hostilities on the initiative of the Kiev junta. Russia somehow be a possible failure to respond agreements, and very likely, we now come to the point of bifurcation, when the situation in Ukraine will start to change dramatically. So I think in the coming days the Kremlin anyway publicly define its future strategy (guess based on the military situation in the NPT, non-public with her ​​already decided) and Putin publicly announce part of this strategy.