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Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech
President of Russia was giving his Women’s Day speech – but he started coughing and couldn’t stop for 30 seconds.
Vladimir Putin was, this Sunday, giving her speech related to Women’s Day. But the speech he was interrupted because the president of Russia stayed distressed, I couldn’t speak.
Putin stopped speaking, showed clear discomfort, started coughing, and couldn’t stop coughing constant over 30 seconds.
Vladimir Putin suddenly stopped speaking, began gesturing, point to the neckand began to clear his throat, coughing incessantly for half a minute.
In a scene that, in Portugal, could be reminiscent of moments during the campaign for last year’s legislative elections, although in a calmer, more formal environment this time.
“You know: let me repeat, because my throat is a little irritated. I almost started coughing. I talked a lot today”, explained Vladimir Putin, later.
Vladimir Putin was caught struggling to speak and coughing repeatedly in an outtake from a recorded address leaked by the Kremlin.
The video was deleted four minutes after being posted in the Kremlin’s Telegram channel.
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The video was still available online for 4 minutes – but soon after the Kremlin deleted the file, deleted the video from Telegram, indicates .
20 minutes after it was deleted, the press office of the Russian presidency published a edited version (half the length of the previous recording), and then Putin no longer interrupts the speech.
The President of Russia praised women’s ability to “captivate with beauty and charm, also demonstrating diligence, determination and resilience”.
This video, although it has since been deleted, is a rarity: shows a moment of fragility for Vladimir Putinin relation to your health.
Vladimir Putin’s health has been the subject of theories for a long time. Especially since it started.
Parkinson’s disease, cardiac arrest, neurological decline… A lot has already been speculated about.
In fact, a few days after the war started, one was spread: Putin is sick and has already exceeded the average life expectancy in Russia (which is 68 years among men, while Vladimir Putin is 73 years old).
Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman, has already admitted that his president only sleeps a few hours a night and never takes a vacation. “Honestly, sometimes it’s difficult for me to understand where he gets so much strength from,” Peskov said about half a year ago.
