A leaked video of Vladimir Putin having a severe coughing fit during a recent televised address has once again sparked speculation about the state of his health.
In the video uploaded to the Kremlin’s Telegram channel, the Russian president is seen clearing his throat before having a coughing fit, gesturing towards his throat. The video was swiftly deleted, prompting a frenzy of theories about an illness.
The 73-year-old has long been rumoured to be suffering from a health condition, suggested variously to be everything from cancer and Parkinson’s disease to cosmetic surgery complications.
Observers regularly remark on his sudden, unexplained absences from public view, the Kremlin’s attempts to cover up those absences, and Putin’s changing appearance.
Putin has also been observed at various points over the years with tremors in his hands, twitching legs, and a swollen face, which has prompted wild speculation as to the president’s health. In April 2022 a video showing him clutching on to a table for the entirety of a meeting sparked renewed concern that he was suffering from serious health issues.
Moscow has repeatedly denied reports of his ill health.
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— New York Post (@nypost) March 10, 2026Sir Richard Dearlove, the head of M16 between 1999 and 2004, said in 2024 that Putin had something “fundamentally wrong” with him and that his health was deteriorating. Unsubstantiated theories have even claimed the President uses a body double.
Russian investigative outlet Proekt has reported that Putin was visited by a thyroid cancer specialist 35 times between 2016 and 2020, while Fiona Hill, Trump’s former Russia adviser, suggested Putin might be taking steroids for back pain he suffered since falling off a horse in 2012. “There may be something else,” she added.
None of these suggestions has been proved, however, and the Kremlin keeps a tight rein on the emergence of any unfavourable information about the president’s health.
The Russian leader, who changed the country’s constitution in 2020 to enable him to rule until 2036, has always tried to project an image of aggressive power and masculinity, engaging in photo ops showing him fishing and hunting out in the wilderness, as well as topless and on horseback.
However, he is famously paranoid about his health. Russian media have reported that he had taken part in the grisly tradition of consuming and bathing in blood from the severed antlers of Siberian red deer in the Altai region. According to tradition, the controversial practice improves cardiovascular function, gives strength and stops ageing, though this has not been scientifically proved.
Putin with deer in the Tyva region of southern Siberia in 2013. Local media suggested that he had engaged in the local tradition of bathing in their antler blood (Photo: Alexey Nikolsky/Ria Novosti/AFP)According to Proekt, after Putin began to take antler baths, the craze spread among the Russian elite.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Putin is known to have taken evermore extreme measures to protect himself, quarantining from even his closest advisers over fear of getting infected.
He was caught in a hot-mic moment last year discussing organ transplants to prolong human life and even achieve immortality with his fellow dictators Xi Jinping of China and Kim Jong-Un of North Korea.
Putin said that “with the development of biotechnology, human organs can be constantly transplanted so that people can live younger and younger, and even become immortal”.
Jinping responded: “In this century, humans may live to 150 years old.”
Later on, at a news conference, Putin said: “Modern means of health support, medicine and even some surgeries involving organ transplants allow humanity to hope that the active lifespan will not be like today. It differs from country to country, but there’s hope that our lifespan can increase considerably.”
Organ transplants are typically used for people with ill health and failing organs rather than to increase longevity.
However, his government has funded anti-ageing technology, investing heavily in cellular rejuvenation and immune system strengthening. Putin’s eldest daughter, endocrinologist Maria Vorontsova, leads one of these projects looking into cell renewal processes.
According to the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europe, the number of anti-ageing projects funded by the state-run Russian Science Foundation has grown six times since 2021 compared with the previous five-year period.
Putin outside the town of Kyzyl in Siberia in 2009. He has attempted to project an image of power and masculinity (Photo: Alexey Druzhinin/Ria Novosti/AFP)In 2024, Putin announced a new national project to increase life expectancy by researching new health technologies, which aims to “save 175,000” lives by 2030. A major part of which would focus on disease prevention, neurotechnology, biological age assessment and organ bioprinting.
It is not known whether Putin is testing any of these experimental medical innovations on himself, but this “would provide a plausible explanation for why he looks quite unwell, disappears for a bit, then comes back looking healthier”, says Keir Giles, associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia programme at the Chatham House think-tank.
“So something is going on, whether it is treatment for a condition that he is suffering from, or some other kind of medical intervention that keeps him bouncing back and looking younger than he did previously.”
“Of course, there is also the heroic quantities of Botox,” he told The i Paper. However, he cautioned: “There’s a lot of mythology about Putin – some of it has a kernel of truth, some of it is wildly fantastical.”
In 2023, a Russian defector who worked in Putin’s security service revealed details about his paranoid behaviour, which included a secret train network so he could not be tracked, a two-week quarantine period for staff who came into contact with him, and food testers.
A mass opposition rally in Moscow’s Pushkinskaya Square in March 2012. The banner reads: ‘We demand a ban on the Botox injections into brain’, a reference to rumours of Putin’s Botox use (Photo: John Macdougall/AFP)It was the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic that prompted this change in lifestyle, he said, causing him to shut himself off from the world.
Gleb Karakulov, who worked for the Federal Protective Service, described the Russian president as “pathologically afraid for his life”.
“Our president has lost touch with the world,” he said. “He has been living in an information cocoon for the past couple of years, spending most of his time in his residences, which the media very fittingly call bunkers.”
This obsession with longevity is nothing new, especially among the planet’s wealthiest men. Billionaires around the world, such as the 48-year-old US tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson, have invested large sums of money into trying to turn back the clock. Johnson has had plasma transfusions from his son to try to reduce the age of his vital organs to 18.
For Putin, his hope for prolonging his life is down to his need to maintain power at all costs, but there is no escaping death.
Putin in October 2019. Observers regularly remark on the 73-year-old’s absences from public view and changing appearance (Photo: Kremlin Press Service/Anadolu Agency/Getty)“The key thing is that death is inevitable,” says John Tregoning, professor in vaccine immunology at Imperial College London, and author of the book Live Forever? A Curious Scientist’s Guide to Wellness, Ageing, and Death.
“We are all sooner or later going to die. We can accelerate this through unhealthy living – drinking too much, smoking, not taking exercise, eating poorly. But the damage that happens to our bodies is cumulative and complex.”
“There is no magic bullet to repair that.”
Tregoning adds that the one thing we can do to improve our healthspan, which is the length of time we are healthy, is to be socially connected.
He suggests Putin should “join a choir” if he wants to live longer, as “activities such as singing that involve exercise, cognitive engagement and social connections are particularly good”.
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