April 2022 The Sun reported, based on video footage, that Putin may have Parkinson's disease. This speculation, which has not been supported by medical professionals, has spread in part due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which many saw as an irrational act. The Kremlin rejected the possibility of Parkinson's along with outside medical professionals, who stress that it is impossible to diagnose the condition based on video clips alone. Awards and honours See also Ivan Ilyin Aleksandr Dugin Explanatory notes References Further reading Asmus, Ronald (2010). A Little War that Shook the World: Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West. NYU. . Frye, Timothy. 2021. Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia. Princeton University Press. Gessen, Masha (2012). The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. London: Granta. . Lipman, Maria. "How Putin Silences Dissent: Inside the Kremlin's Crackdown." Foreign Affairs 95#1 (2016): 38+. Myers, Steven Lee. The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin (2015). Naylor, Aliide. The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front (I.B. Tauris, 2020), 256 pp. Rosefielde, Steven. Putin's Russia: Economy, Defence and Foreign Policy (2020) excerpt Sakwa, Richard. The Putin Paradox (Bloomsbury, 2020) online. Sakwa, Richard. Putin Redux: Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Russia (2014). online review Sperling, Valerie. Sex, Politics, & Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia (Oxford UP, 2015). 360 pp. Stoner, Kathryn E. Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order ( Oxford University Press, 2021) Toal, Gerard. Near Abroad: Putin, the West, and the Contest Over Ukraine and the Caucasus (Oxford UP, 2017). Historiography "Writers have grappled with Vladimir Putin for two decades: Greyness, greed and grievance have been the dominant themes." The Economist 26 March 2022. External links Official Kremlin Personal Website: Vladimir Putin A Putin biography from Stratfor email leak at WikiLeaks 1952 births Living people Politicians from Saint Petersburg Presidents of Russia Heads of government of the Russian Federation Acting presidents of Russia 1st class Active State Councillors of the Russian Federation 20th-century Eastern Orthodox Christians 20th-century presidents of Russia 20th-century Russian politicians 21st-century Eastern Orthodox Christians 21st-century presidents of Russia 21st-century Russian politicians 2003 Tuzla Island conflict Candidates in the 2000 Russian presidential election Candidates in the 2004 Russian presidential election Candidates in the 2012 Russian presidential election Candidates in the 2018 Russian presidential election Communist Party of the Soviet Union members