Vladimir Putin – Russia's longest ruler since Stalin – plans to stay in power until 2030
Russias President Vladimir Putin and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square on the National Unity Day in Moscow, on 4 November 2023. That puts him in line to run Russia until at least 2030, when he will be 78.
"The decision has been made - he will run," said one of the sources who has knowledge of planning. A choreographed hint is due to come within a few weeks, another source said, confirming a Kommersant newspaper report last month. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment. Peskov said in September that if Putin decided to run, then no one would be able to compete with him.While Putin may face no real competition in the election, the former KGB spy faces the most serious set of challenges any Kremlin chief has faced since Mikhail Gorbachev grappled with the crumbling Soviet Union more than three decades ago.
"Russia is facing the combined might of the West so major change would not be expedient," one of the sources said. "Russia is going backwards," Oleg Orlov, one of Russia's most respected human rights campaigners, told Reuters in July."We left Communist totalitarianism but now have returned to a different kind of totalitarianism."
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