VLADIMIR PUTIN RE-ELECTED AS PRESIDENT

Posted on March 18, 2024

President Vladimir Putin (71) was re-elected as President of Russia. He won overwhelmingly as expected on March 17.

According to official figures, he received 87% of the vote. With this fifth election, he won a new six-year term in office.

However, the election was designed from the beginning to realize Putin’s overwhelming victory and to show that “the people support the Putin regime and its policies,” explained Steve Rosenberg, the BBC’s Russia editor-in-chief.

In his victory speech, Putin for the first time made an overt reference to the death in prison of opposition leader Alexei Nawarinny and made it clear that he was in favor of the proposed exchange of custody with a person imprisoned in the West.

While Putin was delivering his victory speech, there were also people lining up to vote in protest in the same Moscow City, and others offering ballots with Nawarinny’s name on them at his grave.