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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

If he was dead, we'd probably be hearing about troop movements into major Russian cities, or even a higher alert status by their airforce.

The Russians' are a funny bunch when it comes to the art of paranoia.

Originally Posted by Tyler

Sounds like a coup

Well, its one of the rumours going around, tanks and power outage et al: http://www.ibtimes.co.in/rumours-cla...by-coup-626276

Amid claims that Putin has not been keeping well, Daily Mail, citing pro-Kremlin Islamic Committee chairman Geydar Dzhemal, reported that former Federal Security Service chief Nikolai Patrushev staged a stealthy coup in Moscow.

Further backing the rumour that Putin has been taken out in a coup, social media reports claimed that several tanks were spotted outside Kremlin after a three-hour power outage.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-flourish.html

Vladimir Putin is 'alive' but 'neutralised' as shadowy security chiefs stage a stealthy coup in Moscow, it was claimed last night.


Former FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev was behind the plot, claimed chairman of the pro-Kremlin national Islamic Committee, Geydar Dzhemal.


There have been no confirmed sightings of Putin for nine days, while in the febrile atmosphere engulfing Moscow a convoy of large trucks parked outside the Kremlin fueled rumours of a flit by the president.