International media has been abuzz on why Russia's President Vladimir Putin was absent from the public eye for more than a week prompting Dmitry Peskov, the president's press secretary, to weighed in on the hot topic.
"Have you all seen the paralyzed president, kidnapped by the generals? He has just returned from Switzerland, where he was delivering a baby," Peskov joked, naming all the wild theories regarding Putin's lack of public appearances.
A foreign journalist asked the press secretary to comment on one ridiculous theory sating that a foreign doctor visited Putin. Peskov smiled and said, "Yes, he was one of the generals, who kidnapped Putin."
