Putin inaugurated for 5th term

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 07 May 2024 by Alex Teddy
On May 7 his new presidential term began with his being sworn in at St George's Hall in the Kremlin by the President of the Constitutional Court. This term will last until 2030. He is allowed another term after that if he wins it, and that would take him to 2036, when he will be 83. In his oration Putin said that the nation must stay as one as the war goes on. He assured his hearers that Russia shall triumph. Putin spoke to frontline soldiers who attended the event. Later he was blessed by the Patriarch of Russia. The Chechen leader was present at the ceremony despite many rumors in the media that he was suffering terminal cancer. The President of Cuba attended. Most EU countries, the US, Canada and the United Kingdom refused to send representatives. Armenia is the only Commonwealth of Independent States country to decline to send a representative.  The Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has stepped down as the constitutional mandates when a president is re-inaugurated. There is no prime minister at the moment. It is thought likely that Mishustin will be reappointed within days if not hours.

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