Russian President Vladimir Putin has reappeared in public following a 10-day absence, laughed off suggestions he had been forced to lie low because of poor health, saying on Monday that life would be “boring without gossip.”
Putin smiled as he sat before television cameras in the Constantine Palace near St. Petersburg in his first public appearance since March 5.
In what appeared as a carefully choreographed double-act, visiting Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev also vouched for the Russian leader's health, saying that Putin “just now drove me around the grounds, he himself sat at the wheel.”...Read Full Article @ VOA
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