![]() ![]() And if you have to watch as many of the Kremlin live telegram feeds of Putin at these various events as I do, they look - and sound - like him. He has his own presidential jet, the Ilyushin Il-96, which flew him to Vladivostok on 11 September, meeting with Kim Jong Un at the Vostochny Cosmodrome on the 13th and back in Moscow for a security council meeting on the 14th. Vladivostok to Moscow is a little over eight hours if you're flying commercial, which Putin doesn't. The Kremlin denies it as obviously it would, but the speculation around certain images or moments tends to stem from Ukrainian sources or the tabloid press and those are never that reliable vis-a-vis Russia. But really, beyond a few weird photos we have no clear evidence that Putin uses body doubles. This was the question: Is there any truth to rumours Putin has a body double? He seemed to get back across Russia very quickly after meeting Kim for a man who does not fly is all I'm saying.Īutocrats having body doubles is a popular conspiracy theory and I have no doubt well enough substantiated in some instances. Following the Kremlin's description of rumours Vladimir Putin has a body double as an "absurd hoax", we thought we'd re-up an answer our Moscow correspondent Diana Magnay gave to a reader question on this subject here in this blog a few weeks ago. ![]()
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