Putin will seek another term as Russian president, aiming to extend his decades of rule
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Putin will seek another term as Russian president, aiming to extend his decades of rule

LA Times  

Russian President Vladimir Putin talks with Russian service members after an award ceremony in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow on Friday. Putin, who was first elected president in March 2000, announced his decision to run in the March 17 presidential election after a Kremlin award ceremony, when war veterans and others pleaded with him to seek reelection in what Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described as “spontaneous” remarks. “I will run for president of the Russian Federation.” Tatiana Stanovaya of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center noted that the announcement was made in a low-key way instead of a live televised speech, probably reflecting the Kremlin’s spin effort to emphasize Putin’s modesty and his perceived focus on doing his job as opposed to loud campaigning. Brookings Institution scholar Fiona Hill, a former U.S. National Security Council expert on Russian affairs, agreed that Putin thought “a lovely small, victorious war” would consolidate support for his reelection. “So ultimately, it will be all about the war.” He noted that Putin has built “a system that has become more systemically corrupt, more repressive, and also in foreign policy terms — I think this is really the great historical significance — Russia now is more alienated, isolated from the West than at any time since at least the last years of Stalin.” The key lesson for the West is that “there can be no constructive relationship with Russia while Putin or anyone like Putin is in office,” Gould-Davies said.

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