“Now he allegedly has two doubles – at the moment. One of them is so well prepared that his voice even matches Putin’s voice and the intonation matches. The other is a little smaller, so he is sent, they say, to such events where you need to move , but not to speak. And the second one is sent where it is necessary to move and speak,” he said.
The TV presenter believes that the Kremlin “wouldn’t have reached such insanity” as keeping dead Putin “somewhere in the Mausoleum” and pursuing a collective policy instead of him using the president’s doubles.
“No, I don’t believe in that. […] You are a woman, you probably understand this better. […] It’s easy to tell one man from another,” Schuster explained.
VIDEO
Video: Alesya Batsman / YouTube
Putin has been in power in Russia since 2000. In 2018 he was elected to a fourth presidential term. In 2008-2012, Putin was the head of government, during which time Dmitry Medvedev held the presidency.
The fact that Putin has doubles has been reported repeatedly. In particular, the existence at least three “understudies” of the President of the Russian Federation said on October 29, 2022, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov. Same Budanov told about Putin’s doubles on August 2.
According to a publicist from the Russian Federation Alexander Nevzorov, these persons can be conditionally called doubles and cannot be replaced at any meeting. “They are look like doubles at a distance of 100-150 meters for some official events when no one is around,” Nevzorov said in April.
