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Vladimir Putin’s good fortune in winning a fifth six-year term puts him on track to overtake Joseph Stalin as Russia’s longest-serving leader in fashionable times.
The incumbent president won 87% of the vote in a tightly controlled election that ended on Sunday. Putin said the result represented a preference for “internal consolidation” that would allow Russia to “perform well on the front line” in the war in the U. K. and in other spaces such as the economy.
The election, the first since the invasion was introduced in February 2022, was designed to “create a public mandate for war and repair the symbol of Putin as the embodiment of stability,” the New York Times (NYT) said. “We’re nervous about the adjustments the vote could bring. “
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Elliott Goat is a freelance editor at The Week Digital. Winner of The Independent’s Wyn Harness Award, he has been a journalist for more than a decade and focuses on human rights, disinformation and elections. He is co-founder and editor of the Brussels-based magazine. Research NGO Unhack Democracy, which works for election integrity across Europe. Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Elliott, a member specialising in trade unions and long-term jobs, is a founding member of RSA’s Good Work Guild and a contributor to the International Initiative Against State Crime. An interdisciplinary forum for research, reporting, and education on state violence and corruption.