The Kommersant daily reported, Russian President Vladimir Putin may shortly declare his intention to run in the 2024 presidential election, giving him the opportunity to hold onto power until 2030.
Putin may announce Russia’s 2024 election: Putin is rumoured to be planning to announce his participation in the March election during a conference in November, according to authorities, Kommersant claimed, citing unnamed sources close to the presidential administration.
However, there were other possibilities for what Putin would do at the conference, according to the respected daily in Russia, and the final choice lay with him.
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, denied knowledge of a plan to announce Putin’s candidature in November when questioned about the Kommersant article.
Regarding the official launch of the presidential campaign in November, Peskov stated, “I have no knowledge of it.” “I don’t have that kind of information. There is nothing else I can say.
Putin has been in power for a longer period of time than any other Russian leader since Josef Stalin, surpassing even Leonid Brezhnev’s 18-year reign. He was given the president by Boris Yeltsin on the final day of 1999.
On October 7, Putin turns 71.
There hasn’t been any official confirmation of Putin’s intentions to run for president in 2024, despite the fact that numerous diplomats, spies, and officials have stated they expect him to hold onto power indefinitely.
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Putin stated last month that he wouldn’t reveal his plans until after parliament had officially announced the December presidential election, as required by law.
Last month, Peskov asserted that if Putin decided to run, no one would be able to defeat him.
Putin may not have any rivals for elections, but the former KGB agent faces the most difficult combination of problems the Kremlin has encountered since Mikhail Gorbachev struggled with the disintegrating Soviet Union almost forty years ago.
In addition to being the worst external shock to the Russian economy in decades, the war in Ukraine has brought up the biggest confrontation with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the most powerful mercenary in Russia, attempted a failed coup against Putin in June.
Two months later, Prigozhin lost his life in an aircraft accident.
The West portrays Putin as a war criminal and a despot who plunged Russia into an imperial-style battle that devastated the nation and helped create the state of Ukraine while bringing the West together and giving NATO a post-Soviet mission of resisting Russia.
Putin, though, frames the conflict as a little piece of a much larger conflict with the United States, which, according to the Kremlin elite, seeks to split Russia apart, seize its natural riches, and then move to settling scores with China.
As the West’s post-Cold War dominance dwindles, Russia puts the humiliations of the Soviet collapse behind it, and China becomes superpower, the former Soviet spies who hold sway in Moscow have frequently warned of the potential of a Russia-NATO clash.
The West claims that its goal is to aid Ukraine in defeating Russian soldiers, not to start war between NATO and Russia. According to the Kremlin, the West will never succeed in making Russia lose in Ukraine.