Putin announced this month, in remarks he made to the military, that he would run for president, a step that is sure to allow him to stay in power for at least another six years.
The head of Vladimir Putin’s Foreign Intelligence Servicesaid in a video released today that Russia’s spies should make every effort to prevent outside interference in the March presidential election.
Putin announced this month, in remarks he made to the military, that he would run for president, a step that is sure to allow him to stay in power for at least another six years.
Putin, who was handed the presidency by Boris Yeltsin on the last day of 1999, has already led the country longer than any other leader since Joseph Stalin, even surpassing Leonid Brezhnev’s 18-year tenure.
“An important political event will take place in the New Year, the election of the President of the Russian Federation» says the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryskin in the video clip.
“We must make every effort to prevent any attempts at outside interference».
Opposition politicians say the election is just a fig leaf of democracy to cover what they see as a corrupt dictatorship in Putin’s Russia.
Putin’s supporters reject that analysis, pointing to some independent polls that show his approval rating above 80 percent.
They say Putin has restored order and some of the influence Russia lost during the chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Source :Skai
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