In his state of the nation address on Jan. 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a sweeping constitutional reform that would give him several options to retain power after 2024, when his term ends. The announcement led to the resignation of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s government, showing that a full reset of Russia’s governance system is underway — and that Medvedev won’t succeed Putin as president, as he did for one term in 2008.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin leaves a plenary session of the International Arctic Forum in Saint Petersburg on April 9, 2019.
