Thread by @generalsvr_en

#Putin's Double on St Petersburg Economic Forum

A man resembling #Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in several official events last Friday and Saturday. On Friday, June 16, although Russian President Vladimir Putin honored St. Petersburg with...
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his personal presence and even felt quite tolerable, he entrusted the honorary mission to participate in official events to a double. The understudy of the president had a meeting and short talks with the president of the #UAE, Mohammed Al Nahyan,...
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wandered a bit between the structures and pavilions of the SPIEF and finally exchanged courtesies. The meeting was held regularly. The double did not allow obvious punctures and reservations. Also, the understudy took part in the plenary session of...
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the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. To participate in this event, #Putin's double was prepared for a long time and seriously. Already a month before the event, the understudy was provided with study materials, and the main speech and answers to...
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questions (both prepared and possible) were provided ten days in advance and adjusted the day before. The plenary session was successful, despite some differences in behavior and in the manner of presenting information, as well as reservations.
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The double coped well this time. As insiders in the president's entourage say, "They eat it anyway," the longer they go on, the more they take both the #Russian and international audiences watching the speeches of the "fake president" for suckers.
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#Putin did not want to personally award Valentina Tereshkova with the Order of Gagarin, calling her an "old whore" behind her back, and delegated this mission to the double. The only event in which Putin took part in person these days was the flag-raising ceremony,...
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appearing in company with Elena Ilyukhina, a close friend of his former mistress and part-time deputy general director of Gazprom Neft, general director of Gazprom Lakhta. Instead of the president at a meeting with the heads of delegations of African states and...
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the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, whom #Putin called "Papuans", it was again the doppelgänger. In the evening, on the eve of the meeting, the understudy was provided with "outlines" of how Putin sees the general situation with the peace initiatives of...
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African comrades and the main theses of the future speech. It should be noted that the double failed to adequately prepare. He did not fully understand the logical and temporal chains of presidential claims against the Ukrainian leadership, so he added some aspects of...
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his own vision of the situation. Nevertheless, the meetings were held within reasonable limits and showed that the double copes, even in difficult conditions, when there is a lack of information in the preparation process.
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