Russian state television has aired footage it says shows President Vladimir Putin at his country residence in Novo-Ogaryovo on Friday.<br /><br /> It shows the president with the head of Russia’s Supreme Court.<br /><br /> Putin hasn’t been seen in public in over one week, sparking rumours that he is ill. <br /><br /> “Well, there is absolutely no reason for any doubts about the state of his (Putin’s) health, his health is really perfect and everything is OK with him, and he`s working in accordance with his traditionally overloaded working schedule,” said Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Vladimir Putin.<br /><br /> Perhaps the newly released presidential footage will put an end to widespread speculation swirling around social media that Putin is dead, sick, under arrest,undergoing chemotherapy or having plastic surgery.
