article_snippet: Someone dreams of (Rosneft CEO Igor)
article_snippet: Sechin resignation, others -- of government resignation, while others have not seen President Vladimir Putin on TV for several days," President Vladimir Putin said, according to Tass.
article_snippet: Speaking to Russian radio station Echo of Moscow, Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov also urged people not to worry, saying that President Vladimir Putin was "absolutely" healthy.
article_snippet: Asked if Putin was "absolutely" healthy, President Vladimir Putin replied that President Vladimir Putin "can break a hand.
article_snippet: Last fall, rumors also circulated about the health of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, after President Vladimir Putin was absent from the public eye for more than a month.
article_snippet: President Vladimir Putin eventually reappeared, with North Korean state media releasing photographs of President Vladimir Putin walking with a cane.
article_snippet: President Vladimir Putin's last public appearance was Sunday, on International Women's Day.
article_snippet: In the course of President Vladimir Putin many years in power, President Vladimir Putin has cultivated the image of a strong and vigorous leader.
article_snippet: President Vladimir Putin exploits, captured on film and released to the media, have included riding horses while shirtless, exploring the seafloor in a submersible, handling a tranquilized tiger and, just last year, earning a karate black belt.
article_snippet: President Vladimir Putin has been in the international spotlight in recent months after Moscow's intervention in Ukraine, which has prompted heightened tensions with the West.
article_snippet: Opinion: Why has President Vladimir Putin gone missing?
article_snippet: CNN's Alla Eshchenko reported from Moscow, and Laura Smith-Spark wrote and reported from London.
highlights_snippet: President Vladimir Putin spokesman dismisses rumors of ill health sparked by President Vladimir Putin's cancellation of planned talks .