Vladimir Putin seeks another term

The presidential elections in Russia will be held in March and are widely expected to do nothing but reconfirm the former KGB agent to yet another six-year term at the head of the state.

From the former agent, Vladimir Putin managed to climb the stairs of power into one of the proud and complicated leaders of modern history.

The cold, calculated Russian leader, a man of great ambition, but a few scruples, clearly showed behind the rock of power with his choice, Dimitri Medvedev, that he will not ease the country's direction.

But at a meeting with students of a school in Sochi, conceived to do the Kremlin leader, to look as friendly to the young people after the recent youth protests, he as a joke, all of a sudden, is to realize that he may not intend to leave the presidency anymore. Asked what he plans to do after leaving the Kremlin, Putin, after he paused a moment and smiled easily replied that “did not decide if he wants to leave power<1>

The presidential elections in Russia will be held in March and are widely expected to do nothing but reconfirm the former KGB agent to yet another six-year term at the head of the state.

The prominent opposition politician, Alexei Navally, the organiser of the latest round of protests will probably run, but it is no wonder that his name is not allowed at all on the ballot sheet.

Putin spent three hours talking to teenagers at a meeting aired by national television. The minors had apparently been verified and instructed before not to ask the president embarrassing questions.

The questions on domestic foreign policy, the hot issue of the moment, the Russian intervention to American president of 2016 in support of Donald Trump, were not touched.