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Kremlin backs $26 billion life-extension project, Israeli report says

Putin's daughter Maria Vorontsova is among the project's leaders, according to a report examining gene therapies, regenerative medicine and organ printing.

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פוטין רוצה לחיות לנצח - וברוסיה משקיעים עשרות מיליארדים למחקר בנושא

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0:12Mikhail Kovalchuk describes research involving thousands of aging monkeys at a Moscow genetics conference.
0:45The report outlines a $26 billion Russian project covering gene therapies, regenerative medicine and organ printing.
1:20Maria Vorontsova describes Russia's regenerative-medicine market as being in its early stages.
2:34The proposed sequence is natural aging to roughly 85 to 90, followed by treatments and transplants.
3:32Bojan Pancevski describes Putin's health practices, including a cryotherapy chamber, in a France 24 interview excerpt.
4:13Reshef contrasts longevity ambitions with declining Russian life expectancy, which the report links to war and COVID-19.

Russia is pursuing a government-funded life-extension project costing $26 billion, with President Vladimir Putin's daughter among its leading figures, according to Kan News, the news division of the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation in Israel.

Correspondent Michal Reshef's report sets that investment against destruction in Ukraine. Its central question is what the Kremlin's pursuit of longer lives involves, beyond the ambition of its president.

At a genetics conference in Moscow, research institute director and Putin associate Mikhail Kovalchuk describes research involving thousands of aging monkeys. The report places that work within a wider program covering gene therapies, regenerative medicine and organ printing.

Maria Vorontsova, Putin's daughter and an endocrinologist, appears in an interview excerpt describing Russia's regenerative-medicine market as still in its early stages. The report identifies her as one of the initiative's leaders.

The video's title, "פוטין רוצה לחיות לנצח - וברוסיה משקיעים עשרות מיליארדים למחקר בנושא", means "Putin wants to live forever, and Russia is investing tens of billions in research." But the plan described is more specific than immortality: first reach roughly 85 to 90 through natural aging, then use treatments and transplants to extend life further. The report does not present a demonstrated route to living forever.

Archive footage shows Putin practicing judo and walking with other world leaders. In an excerpt from a France 24 interview, Wall Street Journal reporter Bojan Pancevski describes practices Putin believes benefit his health, including use of a cryotherapy chamber, which Pancevski likens to a reverse sauna.

Reshef closes with the contrast between the state's investment in longevity and what the report describes as a decline in Russian life expectancy linked to the war and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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