Putin, health and the rumors of cancer: from a swollen face to outbursts of anger

LONDON – For months, Vladimir Putin’s health has been the subject of indiscretions, inferences and diagnoses by experts, certainly including those of the CIA and other Western secret services. In recent days, the thesis that he is seriously ill has been re-launched by an anonymous Russian oligarch in a conversation with a Western businessman reported by the magazine. New Linesaccording to which the head of the Kremlin has leukemia or other hematological malignancies.