With a new program, Vladimir Putin wants to save thousands of people’s lives – and slow down the aging process. Is the autocrat’s megalomania going to his head?
Moscow – Vladimir Putin launched a “national project” in early 2024 to Health Now, a few months later, the New Health Preservation Technologies initiative is intended to combat aging. By 2030, the project is expected to save “175,000 lives,” according to the Latvian Internet portal Medusa found out. And this while in Ukraine War tens of thousands of Russian soldiers lost their lives.
Research institutes will work to slow down the aging of cells and develop treatments for osteoporosis, cognitive and sensory Diseasesas well as developing a better immune system. Other research will focus on growing organs and tissue in the laboratory in the future. Organs will even be printed in the future using “bioprinting”, as the Kyiv-Post writes.
Bioprinting and delaying aging: Putin’s vision for Russia’s future
According to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, bioprinting is “an additive manufacturing process in which living cells are printed together with scaffold-forming auxiliary materials to form larger tissue structures.”
Putin announced the plan at the conference “Modern Medical Technologies: Tomorrow’s Challenges Ahead of Time” in February. In his speech, he said: “We have created this forum to discuss promising solutions that are only now emerging and being tested, but which will soon fundamentally change people’s lives.”
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova presented the planned programs in more detail at Moscow’s “Rossiya” exhibition. The plan also caused a stir in Russia’s medical community. A source in Moscow’s hospital described the initiative as the “whims of an ageing Politburo,” as Medusa However, the big beneficiaries of the project are not the citizens of Russia, but the country’s pharmaceutical companies, as some experts told the Russian daily Commersant expressed.
Putin’s anti-aging project: “An obsession fuelled by lobbying”
A close ally of Putin is said to be involved in the venture himself. Mikhail Kovalchuk has been interested in slowing down and delaying aging for some time. Kovalchuk, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and head of the Nuclear Research Institute, is said to be involved in coordinating the project and regularly informing Putin about its progress.
Apparently, the
entire project is an urgent matter for Putin. A Russian doctor who is said to be involved in the project commented on the work: “They asked us to process all our proposals in a fast-track procedure… this was the first time I have experienced something like this. Usually, every national project or federal program is preceded by several meetings with various experts and some kind of public discussion,” he said. Medusa quoted.
A source close to the Kremlin commented to Medusa and RadioFreeEuropethat the program was “an obsession fueled by lobbying.” And with the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, many scientists who had studied the aging process fled Russia. Mikhail Batin, a former Russian politician who now lives in the United States, says of the project: “You can provide the money, but who will develop the technology? No one in Russia can boast of publications on anti-aging…” (sure)
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