Russian Presidential Elections 2024: On Sunday, President Vladimir Putin won 87.8% of the vote, setting a record for a post-Soviet landslide victory. He made it plain that the outcome should provide the West’s leaders a warning that, in either case, they will be dealing with an increasingly powerful Russia for many years to come.
Putin is set to start a new six-year term that, if fulfilled, would overtake Josef Stalin as the longest-serving leader of Russia in the history of the country.
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- Following the results were announced, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and other countries asserted that censorship and the imprisonment of political opponents had tainted the vote and rendered it neither free nor fair.
- According to preliminary results cited by Reuters, ultra-nationalist Leonid Slutsky came in fourth place, while rookie Vladislav Davankov came in third place with little under 4% of the vote. The communist Nikolai Kharitonov came in second.
- Putin promised his supporters during his victory speech that he would bolster the Russian military and give priority to finishing the tasks related to what he described as Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine.
- We have a lot of work ahead of us. Nonetheless, no one has ever been successful in history, nor will they be in the future, in intimidating or suppressing us once we are consolidated, the Russian President declared.
- His fans chanted “Putin, Putin, Putin” and “Russia, Russia, Russia” as he entered the stage.