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| Russia elections: Protesters arrested on final day of vote set to give Vladimir Putin fifth term - BBC News | |
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| Vladimir Putin has been Russia's dominant political figure since his election as president in 2000, serving two terms and then a four-year stint as prime minister, before resuming the presidency in 2012 and winning re-election in 2018 - against only token opposition. | |
| Since then, Russia's authorities have further tightened control over the media, thereby muffling an embryonic opposition movement. | |
| Putin has also adopted a stridently nationalist course and appealed to memories of Soviet-era power to shore up domestic support. | |
| The president presents himself as a strong leader who took Russia out of the economic, social and political crisis of the 1990s, and defends Russia's national interests, particularly against alleged Western hostility. | |
| Opponents and critics at home and abroad accuse him of undermining Russia's institutions, halting democratic development, and entrenching rule by a narrow, wealthy elite. | |
| He unleashed Europe's biggest war since World War Two in February 2022 when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. | |
| You can read more about Vladimir Putin here. | |
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