MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin is not suffering from "serious" medical issues, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said yesterday, amid speculation that health problems had forced the Russian strongman to cancel foreign trips.
According to Russian media reports, Putin has postponed a number of foreign trips and largely stayed at his suburban Moscow government retreat after aggravating a sports injury. The Kremlin had insisted there has been no change to his schedule. In an interview with Finnish media ahead of his official visit yesterday to Helsinki, Medvedev appeared to confirm Putin was suffering from a sports-related health issue but refused to be drawn into specifics.
"There is nothing serious. Each one of us has some trifles we have to take care of," Medvedev said in a transcript of the interview published on the Russian government website.
President Putin is fine, Kremlin says
