Ukraine president praises far-right populist Javier Milei for his ‘clear support for Ukraine’; outcry after Moscow says residents in occupied regions can vote in Russian elections
On Friday, Vladimir Putin said he would run for president in the March 2024 election, moving the longtime Russian leader a step closer to a fifth term in office.
Putin has dominated Russia’s political system and the media for the past two decades, jailing prominent opposition politicians, such as Alexei Navalny, who is serving more than 30 years in prison.
With the Kremlin in full control of state media and able to decide who can and cannot run, the Navalny camp says this is not a real election.
But it sees the 100-day campaign window as a rare opportunity to draw Russians into a political conversation and convince them that the Ukraine war and the economic strains it has brought are problems of Putin’s making.
