By all accounts the Internet rumor that Russian President Vladimir Putin died is nothing more than a hoax started with a Facebook Page titled "‘R.I.P. Vladimir Putin," which garnered almost 1 million likes when it hit the Internet on Tuesday, March 10, 2015. The 'About' page stated the following:
"At about 11 a.m. ET on Tuesday (March 10, 2015), our beloved politician Vladimir Putin passed away. Vladimir Putin was born on October 7, 1952 in Saint Petersburg. He will be missed but not forgotten. Please show your sympathy and condolences by commenting on and liking this page."
Hundreds of Putin fans left messages, many were rightly skeptical, and while there is nothing strange about death hoaxes, a quick search shows they are a form of amusement for the hoaxsters themselves, what is strange is a recent DEBKAFILE report titled "Unconfirmed Russian Internet rumors that Vladimir Putin is dead " which states that "a short announcement of Putin’s death was seen briefly on Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s website early Thursday, only to be removed after 20 minutes."
Medvedev is the sitting Prime Minister of Russia since 2012 and the former Russian President from 2008 to 2012, yet somehow, two days after the original hoax swept across the internet, his website fell for it long enough to put a death announcement up? With his connections being who he is and what he was, wouldn't he have known on Tuesday when the hoax was created that it was false?
Was his site hacked?
Add to the weirdness, we see a Reuters article, found on a Google search, screenshot below, reported on the postponement of Putin's scheduled visit to Kazakhstan saying "It looks like he has fallen ill," an unnamed source in Kazakhstan’s government told the agency, yet when the Google search link is clicked, it returns an error "Page not found", with "Our apologies, the requested page was not found. Please double-check the URL for proper spelling and capitalization. If you're having trouble finding a page in Reuters."
http://www.allnewspipeline.com/Putin...ax_Strange.php
Very weird. If they got to him and he's dead, I wonder why Medved isn't saying anything?
"Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, asked by Reuters if the president was in good health, replied "yes".
"He has meetings all the time," he said by telephone. "He has meetings today, tomorrow. I don't know which ones we will make public.""
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0M816620150312
Something big may be in the works....
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