Russian media: Putin has not appeared publicly for a week already
Since August 9th, the Russian Federation President, Vladimir Putin, has not appeared in public, Dozhd reports.
"The Kremlin website publishes reports on the President's meetings, but journalists are not invited to attend. It has been reported that they have been recorded in advance. At the same time, there is no mention of Putin's vacation this year," the message says.
According to the channel’s report, the last time Putin appeared in public was on August 8th, and the next time will be when he meets with journalists only on August 16th. This was relayed by two people who are familiar with the Russian President’s schedule.
On August 8th, Putin worked in Abkhazia and Sochi, where he stayed for one day.
"The Kremlin's website has regular reports of Putin's meetings over the past few days in which he held with high-ranking officials, but all of them were tete-a-tete, journalists were not invited to them, so it was impossible to understand when these events were actually recorded," the TV channel reports.
Information about all of these meetings appeared nearly at the same time, between 1:50 and 3:20 p.m.; news agencies covered the events within 15-20 minutes after the Kremlin's website added the information. In addition, all media outlets published only the pictures taken by Putin's personal photographer.