Look from the back

The "drawn muscle" of President Putin became a factor in international politics

September 9, 2012. Vladivostok, APEC summit

At the end of last week, President Putin's health ceased to be the internal affair of Russia. In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, the press secretary of the president Dmitry Peskov assured the Russians: rumors about severe back in the back of Putin are “greatly exaggerated”. But soon the news came from Tokyo: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda was forced to transfer a visit to Russia outlined to December due to the “poor health” of the Russian president. After a four -hour confusion, the Kremlin made a response diagnosis to Mr. Nod: he became a victim of the same damned rumors. Who to believe? How to be?

The head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin seems to know about the correct behavior in this situation. “... Well, be a man. Well, what are you following all these rumors? Do not follow, do not ask stupid questions! " -he cut off the other day to the interfax correspondent, who dared to ask if it was true that the most beautiful woman of Feldmebel Serdyukova was the ex-head of the apparatus of the Director of the Special Staff of the Russian Federation Marina Chubkina became an adviser to the president of the railway monopoly.

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It is extremely difficult to believe in Lukashenko’s ignorance and the gully of Noda

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Many people of our country honestly, in Yakunin, tried to “be men” and not ask “stupid questions” to themselves and others. They tried from that September day when our president at the APEC summit in Vladivostok, having seized the moment, sat down with an unnaturally straightened back on the edge of the chair in an empty presidium. And shortly after returning to Moscow, he retired in Novo-Ogarev. Then we went “strongly exaggerated rumors” about the hard landing of the Deltaplane, who headed the flock of the Sterhs, about the displaced disk in the spine and the need for an emergency operation. Several serious foreign visits are postponed. And now November has come. The German colleague, standing five steps from Putin during his meeting with Chancellor Merkel, expressed firm confidence: he looks good, but the absolute impression that the corset wears ...

And then on November 27, another “man” intervened in the situation. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko told Reuters that Putin damaged the spine and therefore in the near future they would not play hockey: “He loves to fight. He fought, fought, raised a man, threw it through himself, turned the spine ”...

It is very difficult to believe in Lukashenko’s ignorance, which was probably more than once on the table about the “pulled muscle”. How hard it is to believe in the jacket of the Japanese of Noda. And the point here is not that serious people work on both.

In Minsk, they are sure: Lukashenko deliberately leaked info about Putin’s malaise - in revenge for the Kremlin’s decision to build up oil supplies from 23 to 18 million barrels in 2013. When the Old Man threatened that he would continue to buy oil from Hugo Chavez, Moscow did not lead an eyebrow. The Kremlin left the revelations of Lukashenko about Putin's spine without comment. But not without an answer: on November 29, Russia turned negotiations with Belarus on oil supplies. They do not do this with the “victims of rumors”.

With the Japanese prime minister is a similar conflict. After all, with a request to delay his visit, Moscow turned to Tokyo in early November. The Node reacted with understanding of the request, hoping that they would understand him in Moscow: it is critically important for him to talk with Putin in the Kurilov to early parliamentary elections on December 16. Otherwise, he will “fly away” on them, which are indicated by the measurements of public opinion. And at the end of November, Peskov finally announces Putin’s dense international schedule for December. There was no place for a meeting with the noda in it, Moscow did not enter his position. And the offended Noda, like Lukashenko, used the theme of Putin's health in his interests. The “pulled muscle” of Russian President Putin has already become a factor in international politics, which will now have to be reckoned with. Do they understand this in the Kremlin? On December 3, Vladimir Putin must pay a visit to Ankara, who was also delayed. So let's see ...

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