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Over the past few months, a Russian political scientist named Valery Solovei has stoked a global frenzy with a sensational claim: that Vladmir Putin died last year and today is represented in public by a body double. The Kremlin’s elite, Solovei tells his half-million online followers, controls the double and has stuffed Putin’s body in a freezer. Then on Thursday, journalist Tucker Carlson aired a two-hour interview with Putin. Solovei shrugged it off as a sham. Carlson, he said, interviewed Putin’s doppelgänger, who will now be passed off as real to millions of viewers in the West. “Putin is dead,...

Vladimir Putin has complained that his old friends often no longer recognise him amid rumours he regularly uses body doubles. The Russian dictator, 71, told an audience in the country's remote Chukotka region that school and university classmates do not believe it's really him. 'When I [very occasionally] meet my classmates or fellow university students, they often look at me and say - "I don't believe it, is it actually you, or not you?",' he said. -snip- Solovey - who once taught future Russian spies and diplomats - was challenged by a top Ukrainian TV interviewer Dmitry Gordon over his...

Rumours of Vladimir Putin's 'ill health' have been swirling for years, with recent sources claiming the Russian President has died and his corpse is being stored in a freezer 'used for deep-frozen food'. Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding his first major news conference today, since launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year. At the annual event (which didn't happen last year), he has claimed that peace with Ukraine will only occur "when we achieve our objectives". -snip- Speculation has mounted online for years about the Russian President's 'ill health', with claims he is allegedly suffering from...

Intriguing rumors have recently surfaced regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin's health and whereabouts, coupled with startling claims about his luxurious woodland palace, Valdai, situated in central Russia. According to sources including Radar Online and the General SVR Telegram channel, there are allegations that Putin, 71, may have passed away on October 25, with his body purportedly being stored in a freezer at this opulent residence. These claims, which have been denied by the Kremlin, suggest that a body double of Putin might be acting on his behalf. The General SVR Telegram channel, believed to be operated by a Kremlin insider,...

Rumours are circulating that Vladimir Putin has died, and that his corpse is being stored in a freezer in his luxurious woodland palace. The General SVR Telegram Channel, supposedly led by a Kremlin insider, claimed the Russian President had succumbed to a number of health issues last month. A heart attack was said to have been the final blow, with a body double now filling in for the despot. The channel continues to state that Putin is dead despite the Kremlin refuting the claims. A Telegram post earlier this week said the body was "in the freezer at his residence...