On his birthday! Vladimir Putin wants to live forever

On the day of his 73rd birthday, Tuesday, October 7, Vladimir Putin plans to work as usual, holding an operational meeting of the National Security Council and accepting "several international calls", according to the TASS agency, an expert in the art of maintaining the myth of the leader who is constantly on the move, writes the French publication Le Monde.

A myth that Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, reinforced a little earlier by revealing that the president did not take a vacation this year. "There are no full vacations in his schedule, this almost never happens. "The function of head of state does not allow for rest," he said in an interview with a Telegram TV channel on August 1.

Fully dedicated to conducting his “special operation“ in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is not afraid of overwork. And this despite his age, which is quite advanced by national standards - reaching 73 years for a man in Russia is quite rare, with the average life expectancy for men being 68 years, according to data from the federal statistics service Rosstat from 2024.

His term at the head of the country is expected to continue. In office since March 2000 (as President of the Russian Federation, with an interruption as Prime Minister of Dmitry Medvedev from 2008 to 2012), Putin can, according to constitutional amendments adopted by referendum in 2020, be elected president of the country until 2036. Then he will turn 83 years old.

Journalists recall that during a conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on September 3 in Beijing, the Russian president discussed the possibilities of modern medicine for extending life. The Russian leader then stated that "with the development of biotechnology, human organs will be able to be transplanted without hindrance, which will allow people to achieve immortality".

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What's more, Putin later publicly admitted that he believes in the possibility of extending human life to 150 years. Journalists found that on his initiative, the number of state-funded scientific projects in this area increased 6 times.

According to the publication, from 7 projects approved in the period from 2016 to 2022 for a total of 21 million rubles, in the period from 2021 to 2025 their number increased to 43, and the total volume of funding amounted to 172 million rubles.

In addition, in 2025, other research programs on aging received funding in the Russian Federation, including the program “Regulation of cell renewal processes in the body, a fundamental basis for long-term preservation of the functional activity of organs and tissues, health and active longevity of a person“. Its head is endocrinologist Maria Vorontsova, who is probably Putin's eldest daughter.