One of the details he provided was that the Russian president does not use a mobile phone or the Internet. "All the information he receives is only from people who are directly close. He lives in a kind of information vacuum," said Karakulov. He said that people who work in the same room with Putin still must endure a two-week quarantine, though he said he did not know whether Putin is seriously ill amid speculation from some observers that the Russian leader may be in deteriorating health.