Vladimir Putin sworn in for new term in ceremony boycotted by the West amid nuclear tensions
Russia has a new President, same as the old President: Vladimir Putin .Putin said he is open to talking to the West, and also vowed victory.
Putin told Russia's political elite after being sworn in that he was not shutting down dialogue with the West but that it would have to make its own choice about how to engage with his country. His best known opponent, Alexei Navalny, died suddenly in an Arctic penal colony a month earlier, and other leading critics are in jail or have been forced to flee abroad.
Sergei Chemezov, a close Putin ally, told Reuters before the ceremony, that Putin brought stability, something which even his critics should welcome. Underscoring the rise in nuclear tensions, Russia said on Monday it would practise the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons as part of a military exercise, after what it said were threats from France, Britain and the United States.
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