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» Seven air strikes target Islamic State in Iraq, four in Syria: U.S. military 15/03/15 17:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks | Vladimir Putin missing: Rumours suggest president has flu and is lying low at Valdai outside Moscow: Dmitry Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, called the growing speculation that the president had fallen ill “wishful thinking” more indicative of Western fears than a state of doom in Russia. Other commentators offered a darker explanation, drawing parallels with a stunt in 1564. “Recall how Ivan the Terrible unexpectedly vanished from Moscow to make his subjects realise how ‘bad’ it was to live without him… in what looked like a ploy to strengthen support for his rule as he contemplated new drastic measures,” noted Simon Saradzhyan, assistant director of the US-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism at Harvard’s Belfer Centre. Mr Putin is due to meet the President of Kyrgyzstan in St Petersburg on Monday.

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Dmitry Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, called the growing speculation that the president had fallen ill “wishful thinking” more indicative of Western fears than a state of doom in Russia. Other commentators offered a darker explanation, drawing parallels with a stunt in 1564. “Recall how Ivan the Terrible unexpectedly vanished from Moscow to make his subjects realise how ‘bad’ it was to live without him…  in what looked like a ploy to strengthen support for his rule as he contemplated new drastic measures,” noted Simon Saradzhyan, assistant director of the US-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism at Harvard’s Belfer Centre. Mr Putin is due to meet the President of Kyrgyzstan in St Petersburg on Monday. Vladimir Putin missing: Rumours suggest president has flu and is lying low at Valdai outside Moscow Sunday March 15 th , 2015  at  4:36 PM - Europe RSS Feed 1 Share It may not be quite what his admirers wanted to hear,