#Putin and his double
Yesterday, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court, Valery Zorkin, was showing a strange map to a man who resembles Russian President Vladimir Putin. All official events with the participation of the president yesterday were attended by Putin's double.
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The presidential double held a state awards ceremony, met and personally talked to the Chairman of the Constitutional Court, Valery Zorkin, whom he described after the meeting as "a funny and inconsiderate old man", and also had a meeting with...
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the President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik. Recently, #Putin's double has been increasingly called upon to participate in official events involving the "president". Putin himself, due to ill health, appears less and less frequently in public.
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The president still leads the country, takes part in meetings, takes reports, gives recommendations and orders, and makes key decisions. The use of the double is mainly a hedge against possible excesses in public or on the air due to...
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the deteriorating health of the head of state. #Putin considers the double play entirely under his control and relatively safe for him for now. Or rather, the benefits of using the double are obvious and outweigh the possible theoretical risks.
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The double is constantly under the control of what the president believes to be the selflessly loyal employees of the Federal Protective Service who are personally loyal to him (#Putin). Despite the striking resemblance in appearance, the president considers his double...
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a kind of silly puppet suitable for use with limitations. In general, the president likes to use "silly" and, in his opinion, harmless puppets. Thus, yesterday the court clown, former #Russian president Dmitry #Medvedev, was launched into the information space.
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#Medvedev, in the grotesque buffoonish manner of a scotched alcoholic, began to threaten the world with a nuclear apocalypse. Fortunately, no one in the world pays much attention to this circus. On the other hand, #Putin was very pleased with Medvedev's antics.
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