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Russia's Putin to Visit Turkey Amid Health Rumors
Wall Street Journal MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Turkey next week, the Kremlin said Wednesday, marking his first journey abroad in nearly two months following a mysterious back injury that forced him to postpone numerous foreign trips. Mr. Putin ... Russia's Putin to visit Turkey December 3: KremlinFocus News The EU should take a harder line on Russia's democratic deficitThe Guardian Russia: Introducing the Putin DoctrineNewsweek RIA Novosti -RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty all 150 news articles » |
By LUKAS I. ALPERT
MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Turkey next week, the Kremlin said Wednesday, marking his first journey abroad in nearly two months following a mysterious back injury that forced him to postpone numerous foreign trips.Mr. Putin is scheduled to take part in the third gathering of the High-Level Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council and will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Dec. 3 in Istanbul, the Kremlin said in a statement on its website.
The trip follows weeks of speculation about the state of the 60-year-old Mr. Putin's health in a country with a long history of secretiveness about its leaders' well-being. The Kremlin dismissed reports in late October that Mr. Putin had suffered a serious back injury after he had postponed trips to India, Bulgaria, Turkmenistan and Turkey, and had been working from his residence outside Moscow for several weeks.
A report in leading Russian business newspaper Vedomosti said Mr. Putin may have aggravated an old injury during a hard landing at the end of a September publicity event in which he piloted a motorized hang glider to help lead endangered cranes to their winter nesting grounds.
His spokesman said the president had simply suffered a pulled muscle while working out and the canceled trips were a coincidence.
Mr. Putin—a judo black belt whose vigor has long been part of his public image—first appeared to be limping and in pain during September's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Vladivostok, right after the flight with the cranes.
Write to Lukas I. Alpert at lukas.alpert@dowjones.com
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Russian prison violence exposed
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Russia to Weigh Taxing Individuals on Investments, Deposits
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Russia's 2nd-largest mobile phone operator MegaFon raises $1.7 billion in ...
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 RT |
Russian mafia whistleblower found dead outside UK mansion
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Russian region pays $2.4 million for Tarkovsky archive
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Cossacks help tackle crime on Moscow's streets
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 Sydney Morning Herald |
Putin's Russia not ready to shift on Syria
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 Al-Monitor |
NATO reassures Russia on missiles as ambassador contacts resume
Reuters BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO countries assured Russia on Wednesday that the planned deployment of Patriot missiles to Turkey was a defensive measure as the alliance and Moscow resumed ambassador-level meetings after a gap of nearly a year. Why Is Russia Against Patriots?Al-Monitor all 431 news articles » |
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Russian whistleblower dies in UK under strange circumstances
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President Vladimir Putin has overwhelmed the leaders of Russia's opposition with Soviet-style methods. But he will not be able to stop the modernization of Russian society in the same way. A new grassroots movement is already taking shape.
Putin's Russia is so stable today that it is even capable of withstanding the forces of economic crises, Moscow economist Vladislav Inozemtsev maintains in a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview. He argues the West should give up its hopes for democracy and modernization in the country and instead focus on business ties.
