(DailyAnswer.org) – Professor Vladimir Khavinson, Vladimir Putin’s anti-aging doctor, has died at the age of 77 as the president eyes up 7 more years in the Kremlin. A pioneer in finding ways to allow humans to live until 120, the doctor utilized anti-aging peptides Thymalin and Epithalamin in his work. He would not confirm, however, whether Putin received doses. Khavinson has already aided three former leaders Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Boris Yeltsin, but claimed that he arrived too late to prolong their lifespan with his treatments.
Strong rumors circulate of the president’s reliance on botox and cheek fillers in a quest to maintain his youthful appearance, as Putin looks noticeably less gaunt than he did ten years ago. Speculation about the president’s health and altering appearance has ranged from alleged cancer treatments to a Telegram channel’s bizarre claims prompting the Kremlin to deny that the president had died of cardiac arrest in October and been replaced by a doppelgänger. Russia has a history of publicly denying any health issues of Putin’s other than his own admission once that he had a cold.
Khavinson is not the only person close to the president to have died over the last year; in February 2023 longtime adviser and political scientist Gleb Pavlovsky, who became one of his most vocal critics regarding the war in Ukraine, passed away reportedly due to serious illness. In January 2024 Zoya Konovalova, head of Kuban, one of Russia’s state TV companies, was found dead at the age of 48 along with her ex-husband due to suspected poisoning. The deputy editor-in-chief of the pro-Putin newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda was found dead at 35 of a suspected heart attack almost a year after her boss Vladimir Nikolayevich Sungorkin died on a business trip in December 2023. Drawing comparisons to Josef Stalin and Ivan the Terrible, Alexander Stubb, former prime minister of Finland, commented in 2022 on the leader’s determination to leave behind a legacy and make Russia “great again”.
The loss of Putin’s anti-aging doctor highlights the president’s focus on appearances, legacy, and longevity as he confirms that he is running for another term in the 2024 presidential election.
Khavinson credited the success of his research to the Soviet Union, the Military Medicine Academy and the Defence Ministry. The doctor will receive a military funeral.
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