Russian President Vladimir Putin officially assumed another six-year presidential mandate in the Kremlin’s Andreyevsk Hall. This was announced by the chairman of the Russian Constitutional Court, Valery Zorkin, after the head of state took the oath. In March, as expected, Putin won the elections by a landslide, but according to Western critics, they were not free and he lacked a real opposition.
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11:21 am 7/5/2024 (Updated: 12:30 5/7/2024)
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Putin was sworn in at the Kremlin and officially reassumed the presidency | Photo: Maxim Shemetov | Source: Reuters
The Russian president was greeted with applause by crowds of politicians and prominent personalities during the ceremony in the lavish, gold-lined hall of the Kremlin palace complex. However, a number of Western diplomats, including representatives of the European Union, the United States, Germany, Britain and the Czech Republic, were absent in protest against the state of Russian democracy and Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine.
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The 71-year-old Russian president, who has dominated the political scene of his country since the turn of the millennium, assumed the symbols of his office during the ceremony and gave a short speech to the participants in the hall. In it, he stated that dialogue with the West is not ruled out, but must be set up under equal conditions.
The inauguration was attended by members of the Russian government, including Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and the ruler of autonomous Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. France earlier said it would send its ambassador to Moscow, Pierre Lévy, to the ceremony, although it condemned the repression that accompanied the March election.
“President Putin has been re-elected and will continue on his way, even if the West probably doesn’t like it. For Russia, it’s stability, you can ask any citizen on the street,” Sergei Chemezov, head of the Russian arms concern Rostech, a close Putin ally, told Reuters before the ceremony.
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In March, Putin won a landslide victory in a tightly controlled election in which two anti-war candidates were excluded on technicalities. His most prominent opponent, Alexei Navalny, died suddenly in a penal colony beyond the Arctic Circle in February, and other critics of the current Kremlin are in prison or have been forced to flee abroad by the Russian regime.
For Putin, it was the fifth time he took the presidential oath in Andreyevsk Hall. He did so for the first time in 2000, then in 2004. Due to the constitution, he could not then run for a third consecutive term, so he became the head of the government before becoming president again in 2012. He was also re-elected in 2018.
In January 2021, Putin signed a law that allows him to run for the post of head of state twice more, and he can thus be president until 2036. His current mandate will expire in 2030.
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