Today, 7 May 2024, Vladimir Putin is sworn in to begin yet another 6-year term as Russia’s leader.
Along the 24 year of his reign, he has gradually modified the Constitution so that it might yield him extraordinary power – which has recently gone so far as global nuclear threat.
This is Putin’s fifth term. He is the longest Kremlin leader since Joseph Stalin.
Putin’s new term doesn’t expire until 2030, when he is constitutionally eligible to run for another six years, reports the Associated Press.
„If we took ourselves back to his first two presidential terms, I think we’d have a fairly favourable assessment of Putin. He stabilised the country politically and made it solvent again. The Russian economy and system were performing better than at any other previous time in its history.
„The war in Ukraine, going back to the annexation of Crimea 10 years ago, has dramatically changed that trajectory. He’s turned himself into an imperialist instead of a pragmatist”, muses Fiona Hill, a former White House national security advisor.
Putin is currently 71 years old.
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