Air Force Ones and Trojan Horses
Investigators say the Kremlin uses delayed broadcasts, identical offices and decoy convoys to obscure Putin’s movements and control the public record.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin employs a specialized presidential train, decoy motorcades in Moscow, and secret rail stations to obscure his location, according to satellite imagery and investigative reports.
- The Kremlin uses 'canned goods,' or 'konservy,' to delay televised meetings weeks after they occur, while identical-looking offices in Moscow and Sochi allow officials to misrepresent Putin's actual location.
- Reporters this year tracked Putin's activities by monitoring office plant leaf decay, finding apparent reversals suggesting meetings occurred on different days than officially stated. A defector from the FSO alleged the president uses train travel to evade tracking.
- Government officials are forced to keep meetings secret until televised weeks later, then pretend they occurred on that date. Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, drone threats have reportedly curtailed Putin's travel.
- Putin's preoccupation with security intensified during the pandemic, when he mandated two-week quarantines for officials, a trend of isolation that has continued to shroud his activities in deepening mystery.
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Trump's Air Force One hoax was a stunning example of official deception, but it pales in comparison to the veil of secrecy surrounding Russian President Vladimir Putin, writes the New York Times.
The secrecy surrounding US President Donald Trump's flight on Air Force One was a display of official deception of the highest...
President Trump's subterfuge with the Air Force One is nothing compared to the secrecy surrounding the President of Russia, whose obsession with security has reached new heights in recent years.
For Trump, secret flight was a stunning ruse. For Putin, ‘a regular Tuesday'
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump’s Air Force One subterfuge was a stunning episode of official deception. But it pales in comparison to the secrecy surrounding Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose activity is shrouded in so much mystery that journalists have tried to track it by assessing the wilting of his office plants. That is […]
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