Putin may soon say he will run in Russia’s 2024 election – Kommersant

On Tuesday, Kommersant claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin may announce his participation in a 2024 presidential election, allowing him to rule until 2030.

Kommersant said that anonymous individuals close to the presidential administration believe Putin may declare his participation in the March election during a November conference.

Although there were various options for what Putin may do at the conference, the renowned Russian publication reported he had the last say. No quick Kremlin response.

Putin, who took the president from Boris Yeltsin on December 31, 1999, has ruled Russia longer than any other leader since Josef Stalin, surpassing Leonid Brezhnev’s 18 years.

Putin turns 71 on October 7. Many diplomats, spies, and officials anticipate Putin to rule for life, although he has not announced his 2024 presidential bid.

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Putin said last month he would unveil his intentions once parliament called the December presidential election, which is required by law.

Last month, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov suggested Putin would be unbeatable if he ran.

Putin may not compete for ballots, but he faces the biggest problems any Kremlin boss has faced since Mikhail Gorbachev battled the disintegrating Soviet Union over four decades ago.

The Ukraine war has caused the West’s largest confrontation since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the Russian economy’s biggest external blow in decades. Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russia’s most powerful mercenary, tried to rebel in June.

Prigozhin died in an aircraft crash two months later.

The West views Putin as a war criminal and tyrant who has led Russia into an imperial-style struggle that has weakened the country, established Ukrainian statehood, united the West, and given NATO a post-Soviet mission to oppose Russia.

Putin, though, portrays the fight as part of a larger conflict with the US, which the Kremlin elite claims wants to divide Russia, steal its resources, and then settle scores with China.

As the West’s post-Cold War supremacy wanes, Russia recovers from the Soviet collapse, and China becomes a superpower, Moscow’s former Soviet spies have warned of a Russia-NATO battle.

West wants to assist Ukraine in fighting Russian soldiers, not the NATO-Russia confrontation. The Kremlin claims the West will never beat Russia in Ukraine.