Vladimir Putin will meet with the State Duma leadership and factional leaders on Thursday, July 7. Most recently, a similar meeting was held in September 2021. Dmitry Peskov confirmed in an interview with Russia’s TASS agency that politicians had been invited to the Kremlin. He added that the meeting would be held in a “face-to-face” format. The current chairman of the Duma is Vyacheslav Volodin, a politician from the United Russia party linked to Putin, which had the first two deputies – Alexander Zhukov and Ivan Melnikov. United Russia is by far the most numerous faction in the State Duma.

The meeting was unique in that Putin recently reduced the number of face-to-face meetings to a minimum. If you decide to do so, it should be done with special precautions. All this fueled rumors about the deteriorating health of the Russian president. Recently, a comprehensive assessment was presented by an American interviewer who wrote in a report about the advanced cancers that Putin is supposed to treat.

What happened to Vladimir Putin?

However, the world’s media has been speculating for years about what Vladimir Putin may have suffered. One of the suspects is a serious spinal disease. In early 2012, Reuters noticed that Vladimir Putin was limping in public, and later canceled his visit to Kazakhstan. In early 2014, new reports of cancer of the spinal cord emerged, and a few months later rumors spread that the Russian leader had pancreatic cancer.

Meanwhile, it was also reported that Putin had Parkinson’s. Similar allegations resurfaced after footage from April this year, which showed Vladimir Putin gripping the edge of the table with his right hand during a conversation with Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu. The Russian leader’s mental health also raises doubts, as political scientist and journalist Alexandre Adler said in late March, who personally knows some of Putin’s entourage.

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