Vladimir Putin limps (Probably from fighting Russian bears) , sparking health rumours - Polidicks

[h2]Vladimir Putin's limp sparks health rumours[/h2] Russian president said to be suffering from serious health problem after several engagements are rescheduled [tab]Vladimir Putin at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation Forum in Vladivostok, where he was seen limping. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images[/tab][img]http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/11/1/1351771946312/Vladimir-Putin-009.jpg[/img] [quote][B]He is a judo black belt, has shot tigers and eats raw eggs for breakfast, but Vladimir Putin's strongman image has been placed in jeopardy recently as reports that he is suffering from a serious health problem continue to circulate.[/B] The Russian president sported a [B]visible limp[/B] during the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation Forum in Vladivostok in September, prompting a flurry of rumours, and [B]several scheduled domestic and international engagements have since been postponed until December. [/B] A long-running health issue was likely to have been exacerbated by a September stunt when [B]Putin took to the Siberian skies in a motorised hang-glider to lead a flock of rare cranes on the first leg of their migration[/B], the business daily Vedomosti reported on Wednesday. But the Kremlin has repeatedly [B]scoffed[/B] at claims that Putin is suffering from any serious medical condition. [I]"Any sportsman has a lot of injuries," [/I]Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov told Interfax news agency Thursday. [I]"Especially if he plays sport actively and every day, like Putin."[/I] [B]Peskov denied that Putin's aerial acrobatics with endangered birds had done the president any harm.[/B] But he admitted that Putin, who is almost six months into his third presidential term and [B]turned 60 in October, had pulled a muscle.[/B] "But that is not imposing any restrictions on his activities," added Peskov. His physical prowess, and a lack of modesty about advertising it, has long been a staple of Putin's presidency, which followed that of Boris Yeltsin, whose obvious physical decline while in office was a source of embarrassment for many Russians. [B]During the Soviet Union there was an implicit ban on public discussions of the wellbeing of politicians.[/B] Officials around the dying Leonid Brezhnev in the early 1980s repeatedly denied that the long-serving leader was seriously ill. Putin has kept the details of his health, like other aspects of his personal life, a close [B]secret[/B]. A rare documentary with exclusive access that was aired on state television on the occasion of Putin's 60th birthday devoted large amounts of time to showing the president's morning exercise regime of [B]weightlifting and swimming, and his nutritional breakfast.[/B] In power since 1999, Putin is constitutionally allowed to seek a second consecutive term as president and remain in Russia's top office until 2024 when he would be 71. The news about Putin's health was first revealed last week by Reuters news agency, which said he was suffering from back trouble which might require surgery. Speculation has mounted this week after a summit for leader of former Soviet states was re-scheduled for December, while Putin did not attend planned October meetings in Pakistan and Turkey. Peskov has said the expected trip to Turkey would take place next month. Domestic engagements have also been disrupted. Peskov announced earlier this week that Putin would not hold his live televised question and answer session in December, which is a feature of the Russian political calendar. The marathon event, which can last for over four hours, will be postponed until the spring when "people's feet and ears won't freeze," said Peskov. Putin recently announced that he was reducing the frequency with which he made the trip from his suburban Novo Ogaryovo residence into the Kremlin in the city centre. Officials said at the time that the decision was motivated by a desire to stop the presidential motorcade unnecessarily disrupting local traffic. The issue of his health is likely to be a new and difficult phenomenon for Putin, said Aleksei Venediktov, a prominent journalist and editor of Ekho Moskvy, which broke the news of Yeltsin's medical difficulties in the mid-1990s. "[But] of course he will try to preserve the image of an absolutely health and eternally young person."[/quote] Postpone your appointments across the world because of a pulled muscle? I scoff at that.

Russian bears are the hardest bears to battle hand-to-hand props to putin

I don't think there's anyone in the universe with more man cards then Vladimir Putin. He'll just take the sickness and beat the shit out of the viruses cause he's so manly\ With his bear hands.

[QUOTE=FrankOfArabia;38281675]I don't think there's anyone in the universe with more man cards then Vladimir Putin. He'll just take the sickness and beat the shit out of the viruses cause he's so manly.[/QUOTE] Or all the badass stuff could be political BS to help him win support?

[QUOTE=FrankOfArabia;38281675]I don't think there's anyone in the universe with more man cards then Vladimir Putin. It isn't cancer cause he would just reach into his body and pull the tumor out. With his bear hands.[/QUOTE] Like he beat it out of journalists?

[QUOTE=Articsledder;38281698]Or all the badass stuff could be political BS to help him win support?[/QUOTE] no hes just badass

[QUOTE=Articsledder;38281698]Or all the badass stuff could be political BS to help him win support?[/QUOTE] He still [I]actually does this shit[/I] even if it's for political points. He's still a badass, if a corrupt one.

[QUOTE=usaokay;38281775]Putin showing signs of weakness? Libel.[/QUOTE] It's a dirty capitalist plot to subvert the working people Putin makes Chuck Norris shit his pants.

I think that he decided to be on the receiving end of Anal sex after being the aggressor for so long.

Pooting

[quote]a serious health problem[/quote] well hey, the man is getting old by now, and running a country is stressful business who knows, maybe sometime down the road he might die of natural causes like radiation poisoning or something

[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;38282276]well hey, the man is getting old by now, and running a country is stressful business who knows, maybe sometime down the road he might die of natural causes like radiation poisoning or something[/QUOTE] Radiation poisoning isn't a man's death A man's death is to die while fighting 10 bears [editline]2nd November 2012[/editline] 50 bears

I thought we shouldn't like Putin because of the many bad things he has done.

I bet it has something to do with the recent assassination attempts by former Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

[QUOTE=OvB;38282588]I bet it has something to do with the recent assassination attempts by former Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.[/QUOTE] Spearheaded by former KGB leader Vladimir Putin.

[QUOTE=Articsledder;38281698]Or all the badass stuff could be political BS to help him win support?[/QUOTE] Not remotely. Plenty of russians hate putin, but he's still a badass. Dude was a high level judo competitor (sports judo is really no fucking joke, those dudes get injured on a daily basis), lifts weights, swims in fucking ice pools, etc etc. Russians always know how to make me feel emasculated goddamn.

please die

[QUOTE=FrankOfArabia;38281675]I don't think there's anyone in the universe with more man cards then Vladimir Putin. He'll just take the sickness and beat the shit out of the viruses cause he's so manly\ With his bear hands.[/QUOTE] You are forgetting someone. [img]http://www.public.navy.mil/airfor/cvn71/PublishingImages/TheodoreRooseveltGRindentif%5B1%5D.jpg[/img] You know, the man that was shot in the lung by a failed assasination attempt, who then proceded to give a FUCKING SPEECH RIGHT AFTER BEING SHOT.

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;38282497]I thought we shouldn't like Putin because of the many bad things he has done.[/QUOTE] Well, he isn't any worse then Soviet politicians or the previous government. I'll give him that. [editline]1st November 2012[/editline] [t]http://i.imgur.com/ycXv3.png[/t] These are the election results, chances are there are some minor incidents at polling stations but he still would have won. The only person I'd want to win in that bunch is Prokhorov, but he got a low percentage because he ran late in the campaign. Opinion polls prior to the campaign reflect a Putin victory. And really, the communist party.. they should not be in power and are probably hitching onto soviet nostalgia.

[QUOTE=Mentlegen;38283162]You are forgetting someone. You know, the man that was shot in the lung by a failed assasination attempt, who then proceded to give a FUCKING SPEECH RIGHT AFTER BEING SHOT.[/QUOTE] also worth a mention [t]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/andrew-jackson-lg.jpg[/t] [quote]He was in many duels, number of which varies depending on what source you consult; some say 13, while others rank the number somewhere in the 100's, both of which are entirely too many times for any reasonable human being to stand in front of someone who is trying to kill them with a loaded gun. He stopped when he was voted into office. When Jackson became a senator, one of his foes from his duels was also in the Senate. The man had shot him, and he still had the bullet in his body. He soon got it out and even gave it to the man who shot him as a sort of peace treaty. When ever he'd get hemorrhages in his arm, he'd ask his servants for a razor and a bowl and cut them open to let them bleed out.[/quote]

[QUOTE=laserguided;38283495]Well, he isn't any worse then Soviet politicians or the previous government. I'll give him that. [editline]1st November 2012[/editline] [t]http://i.imgur.com/ycXv3.png[/t] These are the election results, chances are there are some minor incidents at polling stations but he still would have won. The only person I'd want to win in that bunch is Prokhorov, but he got a low percentage because he ran late in the campaign. Opinion polls prior to the campaign reflect a Putin victory. And really, the communist party.. they should not be in power and are probably hitching onto soviet nostalgia.[/QUOTE] You realize he was getting 107% of the votes in some areas, right?

[QUOTE=Ericson666;38285353]You realize he was getting 107% of the votes in some areas, right?[/QUOTE] He still would have won by loads, the area he got 107% in was Chechnya. Ironically Russia has spent loads of money rebuilding Chechnya so he could have still won since likely any jihadist opposition did not vote in the first place.. I mean, who else would they vote for if Putin is spending loads of money on them. Even if he lost in Chechnya he would have still won with a vast majority since the population of republic of chechnya is only 1mn. It isn't directly Putins fault either, the head of Chechen republic is extremely pro-government so its likely their fault... I mean for fuck sakes there is a [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19625734"]road named "Putin Avenue" [/URL] in their capital.

I hope he gets a leg infection and dies, fucking pig.

[QUOTE=laserguided;38285400]He still would have won by loads, the area he got 107% in was Chechnya. Ironically Russia has spent loads of money rebuilding Chechnya so he could have still won since likely any jihadist opposition did not vote in the first place.. I mean, who else would they vote for if Putin is spending loads of money on them. Even if he lost in Chechnya he would have still won with a vast majority since the population of republic of chechnya is only 1mn. It isn't directly Putins fault either, the head of Chechen republic is extremely pro-government so its likely their fault... I mean for fuck sakes there is a [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19625734"]road named "Putin Avenue" [/URL] in their capital.[/QUOTE] The 107% shows that he was obviously fixing the vote, and didn't give a single fuck who saw.

[QUOTE=Ericson666;38285452]The 107% shows that he was obviously fixing the vote, and didn't give a single fuck who saw.[/QUOTE] Totally, Putin himself was fixing the vote in a republic with a population of 1mn. I don't understand why you think he would focus on some random republic on the other side of Russia, it was likely Ramzan.

Going box to box, stuffing them by hand. The strain finally caught up to him and cramped his leg. It all makes sense now.

[QUOTE=FrankOfArabia;38281675]I don't think there's anyone in the universe with more man cards then Vladimir Putin. He'll just take the sickness and beat the shit out of the viruses cause he's so manly\ With his bear hands.[/QUOTE] if Saxton Hale and Chuck Norris had a baby and then that baby had a baby with Theodore Roosevelt, and that baby had a baby with Rambo, the result would be Putin.

Putin is the ultimate man. He shall live forever.

[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;38285558]Putin is the ultimate man. He shall live forever.[/QUOTE]Let's hope he doesn't.

[QUOTE=Bumbanut;38286791]Let's hope he doesn't.[/QUOTE] Funny comparison, Republicans say the same thing about Putin.