ロシアのプーチン大統領は健康、報道官が体調不良説を否定 | Reuters
ペスコフ報道官はロイターの電話取材に対し、プーチン大統領は健康だとし、「大統領は常に会議の予定がある。今日も明日も会議の予定があるが、どれがマスコミに公開されるかはわからない」と述べた。
プーチン大統領は１１日、予定されていたカザフスタン訪問を延期。大統領府は体調不良が理由との報道を否定しているが、国内メディアは、プーチン大統領は今月５日のイタリアのレンツィ首相との会談以降、テレビのライブ画像に登場していないなどと報道。１１日に予定されていた南オセチア代表団との会合も１８日に延期されており、健康不安説が出ている。
Kremlin says Putin healthy, dismisses illness rumors | Reuters
Russian President Vladimir Putin is in good health, the Kremlin said on Thursday, dismissing rumors that the leader was suffering from an illness after a foreign trip was canceled.
A Kazakh governmental source said Putin's trip to Astana scheduled for this week was canceled because Putin had fallen ill, stirring speculation on social media that something had happened to the 62-year-old leader.
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."
Russian politics, through the Soviet era and beyond, has traditionally been fertile ground for rumor because of the secrecy surrounding leaders, not least their health.
