16-03-2015, 01:11 PM
From USA Today
Quote:Putin appears in public for first time in eleven days
Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY7:32 a.m. EDT March 16, 2015
(Photo: Dmitry Serebryakov, AFP/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared in public on Monday for the first time since March 5.
After an eleven-day absence without explanation, Putin was seen in St Petersburg meeting in the Constantine Palace with Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambaev.
Over the course of the last week, the Kremlin has released undated photo and video footage of Putin, 62, increasing conjecture about his health, whether he had perhaps lost control of the government and even about his love life.
Speaking about the health rumors, he told reporters in Russia's second city on Monday that "It would be boring without gossip." Images published on social media did not appear to indicate anything untoward about his appearance.
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The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14