About 1000 armed bodyguards have been employed by the Kremlin for Putin’s safety though Moscow try to make the world believe that about 70 percent Russians like him. The tragedy with every Communist country is that the state of health of those who are at the helm of affairs is kept kept like military secrets with the result that rumours about their health are order of the day in the media.
POSTSCRIPT: As prognosticated the recent Saudi -America deal allowing the former to enrich uranium has watered the mouth of many Muslim countries of the middle east including Turkey who too have now started thinking in terms of making similar deals with White House.
The new Prime minister of England had barely taken charge of his office when the American government confronted him with a problem by asking him to allow use of UK air bases for attack on Iran. If he refuses he will incur the wrath of the American president. If he okays the House of Commons will give him a tough time.
