Putin says that Russia will run for president in 2024: State announcement

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has confirmed that he will run in the 2024 national elections, the state news agency reported. Tass reportedaccording to a Google translation.

Putin has ruled Russia for about 24 years, alternately serving as prime minister and president since 1999. Confirming another presidential term in 2024 will keep the to be at the helm of Russian politics until 2030.

Putin remains popular in the country, despite the expensive and bloody ongoing war in Ukraine, drawing international attention and Western sanctions on the attacks. There was also a failed coup in the summer that saw Yevgeny Prigozhin Wagner’s Russian military unit against Moscow. Citing the statistics of the research conducted by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion, Tass said that 78.5% of Russians trust Putin, while 75.8% approve of his actions.

Western opposition has alienated Putin on the world stage, bringing Russia closer to China, Iran and Saudi Arabia.

In fact, the freedom of the Russian leader to move abroad and participate in international affairs is limited by an arrest warrant issued in March 2023 by the International Criminal Court for the crime of illegal deportation and transfer children from the settlements of Ukraine in Russia. All the 123 countries that participate in the Rome Statute that is based on the ICC will have to stop Putin when he enters their territories.

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