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    Emil Lazarian
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Putin to seek reelection in 2024 – Reuters

 14:56, 6 November 2023

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 6, ARMENPRESS. Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to run in the 2024 March presidential election, Reuters reported citing various sources.

Putin feels he ‘must steer Russia through the most perilous period in decades’, according to the anonymous sources.

The sources, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of Kremlin politics, said that news of Putin's decision had trickled down and that advisers were now preparing for the campaign and a Putin election.

"The decision has been made – he will run," one of the sources who has knowledge of planning told Reuters. A choreographed hint is due to come within a few weeks, another source said.

Another source, also acquainted with the Kremlin's thinking, confirmed that a decision had been made and that Putin's advisers were preparing for Putin's participation. Three other sources said the decision had been made: Putin will run.

A foreign diplomatic source, who also requested anonymity, said Putin made the decision recently and that the announcement would come soon.

Putin has held continuous positions as president or prime minister since 1999 – as prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2012, and as president from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS