Russian state television has broadcast footage purporting to show Vladimir Putin working at his official residence on Friday, as his spokesman continued to deny rumours that the president is ill.
The brief and unremarkable segment features Mr Putin meeting Supreme Court chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence near Moscow, talking about plans to reform the judicial system.
Photos were also posted on the Kremlin website, which announced the Russian leader would meet the president of Kyrgyzstan in St Petersburg on Monday.
Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "His health is really perfect and everything is OK with him.
"He's working in accordance with his traditionally overloaded working schedule."
But speculation about the president's absence has continued on social media, with wild theories ranging from serious illness, to a coup d'etat, to tabloid rumours that a woman romantically linked to Mr Putin in the past had given birth to his child.
A Ukrainian children's animation showed Mr Putin being abducted by aliens from the Kremlin roof.
Joking that he would organise a competition to find the best journalistic hoax, Mr Peskov said: "Information that a child has been born to Vladimir Putin is not true."
However, sceptics remained unconvinced, saying Friday's new footage proves nothing, as there is no way to independently verify when it was filmed.
Two state events have been cancelled in recent days, and Mr Putin has not been seen in public since a meeting with Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi in Moscow on 5 March.
A planned trip to Kazakhstan was postponed on Wednesday, with an unnamed Kazakh government official telling the Reuters news agency: "It looks like he (Putin) has fallen ill."
The second engagement - a ceremony to formalise the controversial annexation of South Ossetia - was reportedly cancelled at such short notice that the South Ossetian delegation had already arrived in Moscow.
The Russian leader was also not present at a meeting of the Federal Security Service on Thursday, which he has often attended in the past.
But Mr Putin's spokesman said the agreement with South Ossetia would be signed next week, and insisted the president had not planned to attend the security service meeting.
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Gallery: Vladimir Putin - Man Of Action
Vladimir Putin has earned a reputation as something of an action man. Here in 2013 he is seen shaking hands with a walrus on a visit to the under-construction Primorsky Aquarium.
Seemingly always keen to be seen with members of the animal kingdom, he was also pictured touching a dolphin during his trip to the new attraction on the Russky Island, in the far eastern city of Vladivostok.
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