{"id":64948,"date":"2018-05-07T06:05:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T06:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=64948"},"modified":"2018-05-07T06:05:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T06:05:42","slug":"putin-set-to-be-inaugurated-for-fourth-term-as-president-of-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/putin-set-to-be-inaugurated-for-fourth-term-as-president-of-russia.html","title":{"rendered":"Putin set to be inaugurated for fourth term as president of Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Putin set to be inaugurated for fourth term as president of Russia<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

He has been in power for 18 years, whether as president or prime minister, and opponents have likened his tenure to the reign of a tsar, or emperor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Riot police confronted protesters against his rule in Moscow and other Russian cities on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

There have been fears of new unrest on Monday as he takes office.<\/span><\/p>\n

The inauguration at the Kremlin in Moscow is likely to be more low-key than in 2012, AFP news agency reports.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Putin, 65, is expected to meet only volunteers who took part in his election campaign, the agency says.<\/span><\/p>\n

More than 1,000 arrests are said to have been made in 19 cities across Russia on Saturday, nearly half of them in Moscow.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Putin was re-elected president with more than 76% of the vote, his best ever election performance, but widespread irregularities were reported by some international observers. Allegations of ballot-rigging had dogged previous elections too.<\/span><\/p>\n

The country’s best-known opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, was barred from standing against Mr Putin, on grounds of a conviction for embezzlement which he denies and alleges was politically motivated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Navalny was arrested briefly as he tried to join Saturday’s unauthorised protest rally in Moscow under the slogan “He’s not our tsar”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Domestic opponents accuse Mr Putin of undermining democracy in Russia – a policy dubbed “managed democracy” – to keep genuine opposition parties out of parliament and ensure that he and his allies retain power indefinitely.<\/span><\/p>\n

First elected president in 2000, Mr Putin renewed his four-year term in 2004 before stepping aside in 2008 to serve as prime minister under his protege, Dmitry Medvedev, because by law he could serve only two consecutive terms.<\/span><\/p>\n

Few doubted who was really in charge and in 2012 Mr Putin returned as president, this time for a term of six years.<\/span><\/p>\n

When he reaches the end of his fourth term in 2024, he will have been in power for nearly a quarter of a century.<\/span><\/p>\n

That would still fall short of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s 31 years in power or, indeed, the reigns of some Russian tsars such as Alexander II (26 years) and Nicholas I (30 years).<\/span><\/p>\n

1952: Born 7 October in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), Russia’s second city, studies law and joins KGB secret police, serving as spy in communist East Germany<\/span><\/p>\n

1990s: After serving as top aide to mayor of St Petersburg, enters Boris Yeltsin’s Kremlin in 1997, where he is made chief of the FSB (the KGB’s successor)<\/span><\/p>\n

1999: Appointed prime minister, becomes acting president upon Yeltsin’s resignation<\/span><\/p>\n

2000: Elected president and serves two four-year terms<\/span><\/p>\n

2008: Barred from running for a third consecutive term, stuns analysts by returning to post of prime minister while his protege Dmitry Medvedev becomes president<\/span><\/p>\n

2012: Re-elected president and for term of six years, under new law<\/span><\/p>\n

2018: Re-elected for fourth term<\/span><\/p>\n

How has Russia changed under Putin?<\/span><\/p>\n

Ordinary Russians welcomed the stability associated with Mr Putin’s early years in office when inflation was reined in and basic state functions like the welfare system were shored up.<\/span><\/p>\n

Separatist violence in the North Caucasus which had plagued the administration of Mr Putin’s predecessor, the late Boris Yeltsin, was finally brought to a bloody end.<\/span><\/p>\n

As prosperity grew, fuelled by oil and gas revenue, Mr Putin oversaw an increase in state power, rolling back independent media as well as political freedoms.<\/span><\/p>\n

His decision to annex Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 sparked one of the biggest international crises since the Cold War, incurring Western sanctions which continue to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 US presidential election soured international relations even further, while this year saw Mr Putin accused by the UK of responsibility for a nerve agent attack on its soil – allegations denied by Moscow.<\/span><\/p>\n

Political analyst Dmitry Oreshkin told AFP Mr Putin’s approach to the international community would have to change over his new term.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Russia hasn’t been so isolated since the Soviet war in Afghanistan,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Now his [Putin’s] task isn’t to bring any new lands to Russia but to force the world to consider Russia’s interests and accept its previous conquests,” Oreshkin added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-44024184<\/span><\/p>\n

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