Russian Vladimir Putin was overheard chatting to China’s leader Xi Jinping during their recent meeting and both said they wanted to live until they were 150 years old
Russian president Vladimir Putin wants to live until the age of 97 so he can handover the Kremlin to his secret son, who is now just 10 years old.
This latest bizarre plan has sprung from his cozy chats on immortality with China’s leader Xi Jinping during their recent meeting. Both dictators are 72 and the Chinese leader told him: “Earlier, people rarely lived to 70, but these days at 70 you are still a child.”
Putin responded: “Human organs can be continuously transplanted. The longer you live, the younger you become, and (you can) even achieve.” Not realising they were being overheard, they discussed living until 150, a conversation the Chinese authorities have since sought to censor.
But in a new online documentary covering Putin’s aims for his succession, investigative journalist and historian Ilya Davlyatchin suggested the tyrant’s immediate aim is to rule until he is almost 100 while grooming his son Ivan as successor. He told the We Can Explain broadcast on Telegram: “We even know the age Putin wants to live to – 97 years of age.
“This is the year 2050. It’s simple – then his eldest son Ivan will turn 35 – the age when one can be elected to the [Russian] presidential post. But there is a problem. Putin does not admit that he has children, just as he does not admit that he has a mistress [gymnast Alina Kabaeva, 30 years his junior, and Ivan’s mother] about whom, however, the whole world knows.”
Pictures of Ivan have now emerged but ordinary Russians have not been officially informed of his existence and even before the overheard talk with Xi on immortality, Putin was known to be obsessed with longevity.
Russian scientists were last year ordered to hand over their research on anti-aging and Putin is fond of ancient Siberian remedies to prolong life such as bathing in the blood of maral deer.
Another expert Abbas Gallyamov, Putin’s former speechwriter and now a political analyst, said the despot’s two elder daughters were more likely future presidents. He said: “It could be one of Putin’s daughters….absolutely.”
One is Maria Vorontsova, 40, an endocrinologist, who is also suspected to be involved in the search for longer life. The other is Katerinia Tikhonova, 38, a former high-kicking rock’n’roll dancer and now head of the Inopraktika Development Institute, who leads Russian efforts to avoid dependency on Western hi-tech producers.
“For some reason, [Putin] allows them, little by little, to start participating in politics,” Mr Gallyamov said. “They spoke twice at the St Petersburg Economic Forum, although, of course, [they were] not brilliant. But for some reason, he made Katerina Tikhonova co-chair of the commission on import substitution.
“She can be promoted literally in three months – the official time of the election campaign is enough. I am not saying that this is a ready-made scenario. In fact, it contains many, many disadvantages….”
Mr Gallyamov nominated another likely Putin pick as successor – ex-bodyguard Col-Gen Alexei Dyumin, 51, now a top Kremlin aide and secretary of the State Council, who once saved the dictator from a raging brown bear firing his service gun to scare away the beast.
Mr Gallyamov also tipped Arctic-born Denis Manturov, 56, now deputy prime minister, hailed for boosting military production “faster than the whole of NATO combined” to support Putin’s military machine.
He also picked out Boris Kovalchuk, 47, son of Putin’s ‘banker’ Yury Kovalchuk, 74, and nephew of the dictator’s guru on anti-aging Mikhail Kovalchuk, 78, head of the Kurchatov Institute, Russia’s leading nuclear institute. A “conspiracy theorist”, he advocates developing a so-called “Russian genome” and has accused foreign states of seeking to create a new type of “servant human”.