Build up to WW3 -- PUTIN RETURNS - Puts 40,000 Troops on Snap Military Exercises

 
There is still no explanation for President Putin's 10-day absence
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has laughed off speculation about his health after making his first appearance in public since 5 March.

Life would be boring without gossip talks in St Petersburg. The 62-year-old appeared relaxed and smiled before the television cameras.

His disappearance from public view had sparked rumours that he might have fallen ill, died, been removed in a coup, or once again become a father. Earlier on Monday, Mr Putin ordered the Russian navy's Northern Fleet on to a state of full combat readiness in the Arctic. It came as more than 45,000 troops, as well as warplanes and submarines, started major military exercises across northern Russia.
'Excellent form'

video of Mr Putin's meeting with his Kyrgyz counterpart at the Constantine Palace in Russia's second city was broadcast by state television without sound. There was no obvious sign that Mr Putin had been or still was suffering from any medical condition

speculation on his health, the Russian leader replied: "It would be boring without gossip." Mr Atambayev, for his part, said Mr Putin had driven him around the palace for 20 minutes before the meeting. "I can confirm that he's in excellent form," he was quoted by one journalist as saying. As speculation about Mr Putin's disappearance mounted, the hashtag #Putinumer (#Putinisdead) trended on Twitter. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was forced to counter questions about each rumour, dismissing them as "March madness". Vladimir Putin has said Russia was so fearful of attack at the height of the Ukraine crisis that it was preparing to arm its nuclear weapons, in extraordinary claims aired on state TV on Sunday night.

Amid ongoing Russian media speculation that the President was watching the Crimea documentary from his sickbed, Mr Putin’s full interview with Rossiya One provided new insight into his country’s involvement in the annexation of the Black Sea peninsula.


Russia take control of Crimea, Mr Putin described the Ukrainian revolution to oust Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014 as an armed coup “masterminded by our American friends”.

trick” the world into thinking the regime change was “supported mostly by the Europeans” Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared in public Monday for the first time since March 5, brushing off speculation about his health a few hours after he ordered nearly 40,000 troops to be put on full alert as part of snap readiness exercises and follow dozens of military exercises conducted over the past year since the start of the Ukraine crisis. The corporate media is making a big deal out of the fact Russian leader Vladimir Putin has not been seen in public since March 5. In addition to unfounded allusions he is suffering from an illness, rumors are swirling that Putin — who is compared to Hitler and Stalin in the U.S. and Europe, largely because of his stance on the U.S. engineered coup in neighboring Ukraine — is in Switzerland where his girlfriend Alina Kabaeva has given birth to a son.

The Ukrainian armed coup was organized from Washington, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated in an interview for a new documentary aired Sunday. The Americans tried to hide behind the Europeans, but Moscow saw through the trick, he added. As reported by Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge, the Russian response to the extra-legal ruling of a corrupt court in the Netherlands, which had no jurisdiction over the case on which it ruled, awarding $50 billion dollars from the Russian government to shareholders of Yukos, a corrupt entity that was looting Russia and evading taxes, is telling. Asked what Russia would do about the ruling, an advisor to President Putin replied, “There is a war coming in Europe.



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