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Mr. Putin, who claimed his 5th word successful March successful a rubber-stamp election, repeated a telephone for talks to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine that critics spot arsenic a request for capitulation by the West.
May 7, 2024, 6:06 a.m. ET
Vladimir V. Putin was inaugurated for a 5th word arsenic president connected Tuesday successful a ceremonial filled with pageantry and a televised religion service, arsenic the Russian person tried erstwhile much to picture his penetration of Ukraine arsenic a religiously righteous ngo that is portion of “our 1,000-year history.”
Mr. Putin took the statesmanlike oath — helium swore to “respect and safeguard the rights and freedoms of antheral and citizen” — with his manus connected a red-bound transcript of Russia’s constitution, the 1993 papers that guarantees galore of the antiauthoritarian rights that helium has spent overmuch of his 25-year regularisation rolling back.
Mr. Putin claimed his 5th word successful March successful a rubber-stamp election that Western nations dismissed arsenic a sham. If helium serves the afloat six years of his caller term, helium volition go the longest serving Russian person since Empress Catherine the Great successful the 19th century.
“Together, we volition beryllium victorious!” Mr. Putin said astatine the extremity of a code aft helium took the oath successful the Kremlin’s gilded St. Andrew’s Hall.
Afterward, successful a departure from the broadcast of Mr. Putin’s 2018 inauguration, authorities tv showed a work wrong the Kremlin’s Cathedral of the Annunciation that was led by Patriarch Kirill I, the caput of the Russian Orthodox Church. He blessed Mr. Putin arsenic the president stood, looking on, occasionally bowing and crossing himself — a country that underscored the Kremlin’s intensifying efforts to springiness a spiritual sheen to Mr. Putin’s rule.
“The caput of authorities indispensable sometimes marque fateful and fearsome decisions,” the patriarch said, successful what appeared to beryllium effort to framework Mr. Putin’s penetration arsenic justified earlier God. “And if specified a determination is not made, the consequences tin beryllium highly unsafe for the radical and the state. But these decisions are astir ever associated with victims.”
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