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18 Mar 2024

Vladimir Putin celebrates landslide victory – what happens next?

International Editor

Germany called it a pseudo election while the United States claimed it was  “obviously not free nor fair”.

But – despite some protests during the vote itself – today Moscow’s Red Square was filled with those celebrating the re-election of Vladimir Putin.

It came as no surprise that he won a landslide.

But with no opposition at home and Tsarist ambitions abroad,  just what might his fifth term look like?