Is Vladimir Putin Dead? Has a double taken his place? Earlobes Don't Lie.

[Lifebringer]

Maybe like others, he has a double, in event of assassination attempt?

That or the new baby's early morning feedings are taking its toll.

[Gaia]

Vladimir Putin regularly used violence against his divorced wife Lyudmila, a new German documentary about the Russian leader has claimed.
Putin the Man, made by ZDF television and shown for the first time this week, claimed to have been given access to previously unseen files of an unidentified Western intelligence agency.
The files include details of Mr Putin’s time as a young KGB officer stationed in Dresden in the eighties, as well as his later rise to power in Russia.
They contain information from a secretary inside the Dresden KGB office codenamed “Lehnchen”, who befriended Mr Putin's ex-wife and said he used beat Lyudmila regularly.

Mr Putin went "off the rails" as a KGB spy:

He is depicted as a man who had struggled against the odds from a difficult background to achieve his dream of becoming a KGB spy, only to go off the rails during his time in then-communist East Germany.
Far from his carefully cultivated image as a fitness fanatic today, at the time Mr Putin was overweight and a heavy drinker, according to the documentary.
“He was depressed, fat, lazy and disillusioned,” Mahsa Gessen, an author and activist told the documentary.
It includes an incident when the young Mr Putin lost a bunch of KGB keys, and there was a frantic search until they were found.
The intelligence files include the testimony of a woman identified as “Mrs H” who said Mr Putin groped her at a party, and his colleagues blamed it on alcohol.
Mr Putin has "misrepresented" a crucial incident in his life
Back in 1989, East Germany was gripped by anti-communist protests that eventually brought down the Berlin Wall. Mr Putin has always claimed that he managed to talk the protestors down while posing as an interpeter.
But Siegfried Dannath, one of the demonstrators, told the documentary Mr Putin had in fact appeared in full uniform at the door and told the crowd his men had orders to shoot. That version of events was corroborated by Sergei Bezrukov, a former KGB colleague of Mr Putin’s.
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Mr Putin survived five assassination attempts
Intelligence files seen by the documentary makers identified five attempts on Mr Putin's life, including one in which British authorities managed to stop a former KGB major at one of London’s airports before he could carry out a mission to kill the Russian leader.
That matches previously published reports that two men were arrested in London in 2003 in connection with a suspected plot to kill Mr Putin.
The files seen by the documentary also mention assassination attempts in Moscow, St Petersburg, Tehran and the Azerbaijani capital Baku, as well as a failed coup attempt shortly after Mr Putin was appointed prime minister under President Boris Yelstin in 1999.
The coup attempt is blamed on a power struggle between the FSB, the successor to the KGB controlled by Mr Putin, and a rival Russian intelligence agency.
EPA

Mr Putin had secret cosmetic surgery

By 2010 Mr Putin had become so vain that he secretly had a facelift operation, the documentary claimed.
The Western intelligence agency believes blue stains seen under the Russian leader’s eyes during a state visit to Ukraine that year were caused by the operation.
At the time, Mr Putin’s spokesman blamed the stains on poor television lighting.
He is always late - and likes to keep people waiting
Vladimir Putin once deliberately kept the Queen waiting half an hour, according to the documentary, which depicts him as a man obssessed with making others wait.
He regularly keeps his own ministers waiting two or three hours, and has made Angela Merkel wait several hours before a meeting.
“It’s a sign of his power,” Ben Judah, a biographer of Mr Putin, told the documentary. “You need me but I don’t need you, so you have to wait.”

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His daily routine
Mr Putin is a late riser who does most of his work in the afternoons, the documentary claimed.
He breakfasts on cottage cheese and does several laps of a swimming pool, before taking hot and cold baths.
He is terrified of physical decay, Mr Judah said, and has a fear of ageing.
Despite Russia’s rivalry with the US, Mr Putin does his daily workout using American-made fitness machines, the documentary said.

German Documentary: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/haupt...4/Mensch-Putin

Hope it would be helpful

[Morbid]

leaders/presidents are merely middlemen between controllers and the masses. it doesnt matter how many doubles there are.. the agenda stays the same.

[Sunny-side-up]

I seem to remember Leonid Brezhnev was wheeled in and out of hospital over and over, the last I remember of him he was like a stiff on a sake-barrow, very inanimate!

He seemed to go on and on and I wondered back then how many of him there had been!

[thesadwolf]

Plastic surgery definitely muddy these waters. He's had a LOT of work done. He's a vain person.

[Cristi Copac]

putin today is different than the first one. even his wife confirmed that.

[amor]

I know a little about plastic surgery. Mr. Putin has had some plastic surgery I would guess; there are pull marks at his right temple, while a heavier person had pull marks at the temple moving in a different direction. Having magnified all the pictures, most of them are Mr. Putin; however several of them appear to be a person 20 or more pounds heavier with a heavier cranium. Others exhibit another SPIRIT not usually or ever worn by Mr. Putin, judging from his usual public persona. He has round nostrils. One image to his right has long-type nostrils. If you make the distance of his face from the camera equal and measure from the bottom of his chin to the base of his nose you can be more certain of the comparisons. Most of his real images are serious, unhappy, suspicious looking in aspect. One or two of the other images show smiles and a happier looking soul and they do not appear to be his. I wonder what happened to him as a child. The KGB would twist anyone's outlook.

[Daozen]

Thanks for the replies everyone... more later..

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Morning Fox, the nose looks different too.