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Putin will be sworn in as president for the fifth term

2024-05-07 08:55:00, Kosova & Bota CNA
Putin will be sworn in as president for the fifth term
Vladimir Putin

For the fifth time, Vladimir Putin will take a long walk through the Grand Kremlin Palace to the St. Andrew's Throne Hall.

There he will be sworn in as president of Russia for a new six-year term. The road may be familiar, but much has changed since Putin's first inauguration ceremony in May 2000, the BBC reports. 

At the time, President Putin pledged to "preserve and develop democracy" and "take care of Russia." Twenty-four years later, the Kremlin leader is waging war against Ukraine; a war in which Russia has suffered heavy losses. Instead of developing democracy, President Putin has limited it: imprisons critics, removes all checks and balances on his power.

"Putin thinks of himself now as Vladimir the Great, as a Russian czar," believes Fiona Hill, a former White House national security adviser.

"If we were to go back to his first two presidential terms, I think we would have a fairly favorable assessment of Putin. He stabilized the country politically. The Russian economy and system was performing better than any previous one. The war in "Ukraine, going back to the annexation of Crimea 10 years ago, has dramatically changed this trajectory. It has become an imperialist instead of a pragmatist," she added. 

Officially, Vladimir Putin won more than 87% of the vote in the March presidential election. However, he faced no serious challenger in a race widely seen as neither free nor fair./CNA 





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