Putin - ‘It’s Boring Without Rumors’

‘It’s boring without rumors’: Putin appears in public after week of MSM hysteria

Published time: March 16, 2015 11:14
Edited time: March 16, 2015 13:52

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Life would be boring without rumors, Vladimir Putin said after appearing on public in St. Petersburg on Monday. Earlier, Western media succumbed to hysteria, asking “Where is Putin?” and suggesting the Russian president might have fallen ill.
Putin met his Kyrgyz counterpart Almazbek Atambayev on Monday in his first public meeting open to the press since March 5.
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov mocked the rumors about his boss’s alleged disappearance.
“Have you seen the president [Putin] crushed with paralysis and captured by the generals?" Peskov asked the journalists, smiling,” [He] just arrived from Switzerland where he was delivering babies, as you know.”
When a Western journalist asked Peskov about a foreign doctor attending the Russian president, the spokesman said the doctor in question “was among the generals who captured Putin.”
The Kremlin is not going to comment on Putin’s state of health, Peskov stated.
“We’ve said 10 times, we can’t comment anymore,” he told journalists, adding that the more comments that are released, the more fantastic theories are being invented.




Social media has been abuzz with tweets and blogposts about the mysterious alleged disappearance of the Russian leader.
After Putin canceled a meeting with German chancellor Angela Merkel on March 11, sympathetic users suggested he may have been ill. This theory was denied by the Kremlin.

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