Putin Sworn In For Another Six Years As Russian President “To Serve The People And The Fatherland”

Monday, May 7, 2018
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Mon, 05/07/2018

Vladimir Putin was sworn in for another six-year term as Russian president, his fourth, buoyed by popular support but weighed down by the ongoing confrontation with the West, a fragile economy and uncertainty about what happens when his term ends.

As described by ABC, standing in the ornately-decorated Andreyevsky Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, with his hand on a gold-embossed copy of the constitution, Putin swore to serve the Russian people, to safeguard rights and freedoms, and protect Russian sovereignty.

Putin’s inauguration for a fourth term as Russian President followed two months after more than 70% of voters backed him in an election in which he had no serious challengers. Putin’s most dangerous opponent, Alexei Navalny, was barred from running and on Saturday Navalny, together with hundreds of supporters, was again detained by police while protesting against Putin’s new term.

In a speech after the swearing-in ceremony, Putin said that in the next six years Russia would prove a “strong, muscular player on the world stage, backed by a powerful military”, while pushing hard to improve life for its citizens at home.

“Taking up this post, I feel a colossal sense of responsibility,” Putin told his audience of Russian officials and foreign dignitaries, among them former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder…

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