Russian president Vladimir Putin wants to live until the age of 97 so he can handover the Kremlin to his secret son, who is now just 10 years old.

This latest bizarre plan has sprung from his cozy chats on immortality with China's leader Xi Jinping during their recent meeting. Both dictators are 72 and the Chinese leader told him: “Earlier, people rarely lived to 70, but these days at 70 you are still a child.”

Putin responded: “Human organs can be continuously transplanted. The longer you live, the younger you become, and (you can) even achieve.” Not realising they were being overheard, they discussed living until 150, a conversation the Chinese authorities have since sought to censor.

But in a new online documentary covering Putin’s aims for his succession, investigative journalist an

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