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BBC: Putin to be inaugurated for fourth term as president of Russia

By BBC.
Opposition supporters attend an unauthorized anti-Putin rally called by opposition leader Alexei Navalny on May 5, 2018 in Saint Petersburg, two days ahead of Vladimir Putin's inauguration for a fourth Kremlin term.The placard depicts Russian President Vladimir Putin as former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. / AFP PHOTO / Olga MALTSEVA
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Vladimir Putin is to be sworn in for a fourth term as president of Russia on May 7 after winning the election in March.

He has been in power for 18 years, whether as president or prime minister, and opponents have likened his tenure to the reign of a tsar, or emperor.

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