Russia’s Putin laughs off suggestions of ill health

REUTERS: Russian President Vladimir Putin laughed off suggestions he had been forced to lie low because of poor health, saying on Monday that life would be “boring without gossip”…

Putin smiled easily as he sat before television cameras in the Constantine Palace in Russia’s second city in his first public appearance since March 5.

“It would be boring without gossip,” Putin, looking relaxed if pale, told reporters… (more)

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