2023-12-07 08:17:36
Russia will elect a new president on March 17, and Vladimir Putin will likely be confirmed in office. The Federation Council, the upper house of parliament, voted on Thursday in favor of the proposed spring election date. Its announcement is a formality. It paves the way for Putin’s expected announcement soon that he will run for another six-year term. The 71-year-old has no serious rival.
Russia’s best-known opposition politician Alexei Navalny is serving a total of more than 30 years in prison in a penal colony. Putin was named his successor by then President Boris Yeltsin on New Year’s Eve 1999. Since then, he has determined Russia’s fate as president or – following a castling with Dmitri Medvedev – temporarily as prime minister.
If Putin completes another six-year term in the Kremlin, he will overtake Joseph Stalin, who led the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. And Putin will then be Russia’s longest-serving head of state since Tsarina Catherine the Great in the 18th century.
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