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Election logo. Presidential elections were held in Russia from 15 to 17 March 2024. [1] [2] [a] It was the eighth presidential election in the country.The incumbent president Vladimir Putin won with 88% of the vote, the highest percentage in a presidential election in post-Soviet Russia, [4] gaining a fifth term in what was widely viewed as a foregone conclusion.
In 2012, President Dmitry Medvedev refused to run for a second term and supported Vladimir Putin. Putin was elected president again in 2012 and re-elected in 2018. Initially, Putin could not run for president in 2024 due to the current term limit, but constitutional reform took place in 2020. The constitutional reform established a hard limit ...
The fifth inauguration of Vladimir Putin as President of Russia took place on 7 May 2024, after Putin was declared the winner of the 2024 Russian presidential election. Amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and reports of electoral fraud , several countries refused to send representatives to the inauguration ceremony.
May 7, 2024 at 8:26 AM. Vladimir Putin has formally begun his fifth term as Russia’s president in a carefully choreographed inauguration ceremony, ...
Russia’s 2024 presidential election isn't expected to bring change to the Kremlin. With most opposition figures either in jail or abroad and many independent media outlets blocked, the Kremlin ...
May 7, 2024 at 5:59 AM. Sergei Bobylyov/AFP/Getty Images. Vladimir Putin has formally begun his fifth term as Russia’s president in a carefully choreographed inauguration ceremony, ...
Ballot of the 2024 election with the list of the presidential candidates. Russian presidential elections determine who will serve as the president of Russia for the next six (formerly four from 1996 to 2012 and five from 1991 to 1996) years.
President Putin arrives in Mongolia to discuss a China–Russia gas pipeline meant to recoup Russian losses from Western sanctions, despite Ukraine's urges for Mongolia to arrest Putin under his International Criminal Court warrant. [165] 8 September – 2024 Russian elections [166]