Peskov commented on rumors about Putin’s “doubles”

There is only one president in Russia, Vladimir Putin, said press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov, commenting on rumors about Putin’s “doubles” that have been spreading recently on various Telegram channels.

“You probably read different Telegram channels – “how many doubles does President Putin have,” right? Now experts are guessing: there are three or four of them. Whom we see now, every day – today [цветы] assigned to [памятнику] Minin and Pozharsky – is this the third or fourth double? This is not clear. And we have only one Putin,” Peskov said.

Peskov has repeatedly denied information about the president’s doubles. In April, after Putin’s visit to the headquarters of the Dnepr group of troops in the Kherson direction and the headquarters of the Vostok National Guard in the LPR, a Kremlin representative called the words about the president’s doubles a lie. October 24 Peskov also saidthat Putin does not use any doubles; he called information about this “absurd information canards” that are being discussed by a number of media outlets. He added that it brings nothing but a smile.

In 2020, Putin said in an interview with TASS that in the early 2000s. he was offered to use a double for his safety, but he refused this idea. It was suggested that the understudy attend events where it would be unsafe for the president to be present. However, according to Putin, he never had doubles.