Roman Badanin is the founder of the independent Medien Proekt. Earlier this month, the news site, banned in Russia, published an investigation into the Kremlin chief’s health. It depicts a Russian president isolated from the world by a growing circle of doctors and hypothesizes that Vladimir Putin is suffering from thyroid cancer.
On the ice at a hockey game, on a judo tatami, on horseback or just shirtless in the woods around one of his dachas. Vladimir Putin has made his physical form and strength the primary tool of his communication. However, it is his health that calls into question a poll published earlier this month by independent Russian news site Proekt.
This brings to light a cluster of clues suggesting that the Russian President, who will turn 70 on October 7, may be suffering from thyroid cancer. Roman Badanin, the founder and editor-in-chief of Proekt, spoke about his investigation on BFMTV on Monday.
More and more doctors around Putin
Proekt has been banned in Russia since last July, and its journalists investigated corruption allegations against the interior minister and his entourage. Your editorial team had to leave the country.
Therefore, its members have conducted these recent investigations from abroad. Roman Badanin, himself a refugee in Stanford, California, provided us with the elements that suggest Vladimir Poutine has thyroid cancer.
“I would say that our examination does not confirm that he has thyroid cancer, but he has been surrounded by doctors for five or seven years. They follow him in large numbers, the journalist first specifies. A number that, according to him, has only increased in recent years.
Putin consulted his oncologist 35 times in four years
One of them in particular caught Proekt’s attention. Every time he disappears from the media scene, one of his most loyal companions is a doctor who specializes in thyroid cancer. One wonders why he is with Putin so regularly. should not accompany a healthy person, emphasizes Roman Badanin.
His name – as Proekt states in the online article: Yevgeny Selivanov. According to independent media, Vladimir Putin consulted this oncologist 35 times in four years. The latter would have spent a total of 166 days at the dictator’s side.
Reindeer Bloodbaths
Studying Vladimir Putin’s treatment even leads Roman Badanin to question his sanity. “He uses special means to treat himself: like reindeer bloodbaths,” he explains.
For the journalist, the cloud of doctors surrounding the Russian President now makes him an above-ground figure: Vladimir Putin lives in a bubble. He has completely isolated himself from the outside world.
Robin Verner Journalist BFMTV