Putin's re -election: The Kremlin's head can repeat Stalin's fate - The Times

Thanks to the urgent amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 2020, Vladimir Putin has the right to stay in the presidential position by two more time by 2036, when he will be 84 years old. The Russian President Vladimir Putin, after receiving a new six -year term, was quite likely to become the oldest head of the Kremlin, who has been in the highest public office throughout the history of the country. About it writes the edition of The Times.

The authors of the article point out that in the case of Putin's power until October 2028, when he reaches the age of 76, he will already ahead of the USSR extener Leonid Brezhnev as the oldest leader of the Kremlin. In addition, he will bypass Joseph Stalin as a Russian leader who is in power in power, in the case of another election in 2030.

Amendments to the Constitution, which were urgently amended in 2020, envisages Putin's right to hold a presidential position for two more terms, namely, by 2036, when he has been 84 years old. Meanwhile, the Russian lives on average only 64 years. Although Putin has access to the world's best health care and is considered a person who almost does not consume alcohol and practices sports regularly, his numerous enemies expect that he will die.

In the event of Putin's death in his position, presidential duties will temporarily move to the head of government, which is currently occupied by former tax inspector Mikhail Mishustin. Putin's associates say that his legacy will continue to live. In turn, both the Kremlin's heads and its opponents are aware that no one can give this accurate guarantee. Three years before Stalin's death, in 1956, during the congress of the Communist Party, his successor Nikita Khrushchev made a speech.

In it he criticized the Stalinist cult of personality and his cleaning. After the speech, the introduction of the Destalinization program, which provided for the dismantling of monuments, renaming of streets and removal of Stalin's body with a mausoleum on Red Square, where it was placed near Vladimir Lenin's embalmed body. Moreover, after Putin came to power, Stalin's reputation began to grow sharply.