London/Kyiv/Tbilisi : Russian President Vladimir Putin has exact replicas of his offices in different regions of Russia to conceal his whereabouts and thwart potential attacks, an investigation has claimed.

Three identical rooms in separate residences have been exposed in a report by Systema, the US-funded RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty’s Russian-language investigative unit.

Meetings reported by the Kremlin to have taken place in Putin’s official residence at Novo-Ogaryovo, just outside Moscow, were actually held hundreds of miles away.

One replica is in Sochi on the Black Sea, and another at his sprawling forest estate in Valdai, a lakeside town halfway between Moscow and St Petersburg.

Investigators from Systema analysed 700 videos and examined leaked travel records from Putin’s ent

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