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Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to run in March's presidential election, a decision that will keep him in power until at least 2030, as he feels he must lead Russia through its most dangerous period in decades. recently, six sources told Reuters news agency.
Putin, who handed over the presidency to Boris Yeltsin in the final days of 1999, has served as president longer than any other Russian leader since Josef Stalin, even beating Leonid Brezhnev's 18-year rule.
Putin turned 71 on Oct. 7. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of Kremlin policies, said advisers are preparing for Putin's election campaign.
"The decision has been made - he will compete," said one of the sources, who has seen the plan.
For Putin, who enjoys around 80 percent support inside Russia according to polls, the election is a formality if he participates: with the support of the state, state media and almost no public dissent, he is certain of victory.
Another source confirmed that the decision has been made and that Putin's advisers are preparing for his participation in the elections. The same confirmation was given by three other sources: Putin will compete.
While many diplomats, spies and foreign officials say they expect Putin to stay in power forever, there has so far been no specific confirmation that he will run in the March 2024 presidential election.
Russia at War
While Putin may not face an election race, the former Russian Secret Service (KGB) spy faces the biggest challenges any Kremlin leader has faced since Mikhail Gorbachev faced the collapse of the Soviet Union last year. more than three decades.
The war in Ukraine has fueled the biggest confrontation with the West since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1992; Western sanctions have caused the biggest internal shock to the Russian economy in recent decades; and Putin faced a failed coup by Russia's most powerful mercenary, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in June.
Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash two months after the uprising. The West portrays Putin as a war criminal and dictator who turned Russia into an imperialist and land-grabbing country, weakening Russia and strengthening Ukrainian citizenship and in at the same time, uniting the West and giving NATO a mission.
Putin, however, portrays the war as part of a wider war with the United States, which the Kremlin says aims to split Russia in two./REL
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