Thursday, January 16, 2020

Russian MPs Confirm Mikhail Mishustin As New Prime Minister



Daily Mail: 'I'm sure the Russian people will support me': Putin is confident of becoming Russia's leader for LIFE after changing the constitution

* Putin says he believes Russians will support sweeping changes to constitution
* Planned changes could pave the way for him to extend leadership beyond 2024
* Putin is supposed to step down as president by 2024 under the current rules

Vladimir Putin believes the Russian people will support his sweeping changes to the country's constitution that could keep him in power long after his presidential term ends.

The Russian President announced, as part of his annual state address on Wednesday, changes that could pave the way for him to extend his leadership beyond 2024.

A day after the shock announcement, that saw his entire government - including Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev - resign, Putin said he believed the people supported these changes.

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WNU Editor: Russia's new Prime Minister is a very rich man on a Russian technocrat's salary .... Putin critics ask how his PM choice acquired expensive properties (The Guardian). More here .... Putin’s New PM Hiding Elite Moscow Property – Proekt (Moscow Times).



More News On Russian President Putin's Constitutional Changes

Russian MPs confirm Mikhail Mishustin as new prime minister after cabinet resignation -- RT
Russian parliament backs Putin's pick for PM after 'January Revolution' -- Reuters
Putin fast-tracks effort to extend his rule, new PM approved -- AP
Russian parliament approves Mikhail Mishustin as new prime minister -- DW
After shakeup, Russian Duma approves Mikhail Mishustin as next PM -- UPI
Putin's party backs president's pick for prime minister -- Al Jazeera
Who is Mikhail Mishustin — Russia's next prime minister? -- DW
Russia’s new PM a career bureaucrat with no political aims -- AP
Russian political earthquake: Putin sets out plan for Kremlin departure & Medvedev resigns -- Bryan MacDonald, RT
Putin may be following Xi's lead, but he's nowhere near as secure as the Chinese leader -- James Griffiths, CNN
Putin Shakes Up Russia to Keep Things the Same -- Anthony Halpin, Bloomberg
Like Stalin, he'll rule to the death: Vladimir Putin's new constitutional changes are an audaciously disguised power grab for the future -- Mark Almond, Daily Mail
Dmitry Medvedev: the rise and fall of the Robin to Putin’s Batman -- Luke Harding, The Guardian
Putin's plans are all about keeping his hands on levers of power -- Andrew Roth, The Guardian
Vladimir Putin clears the way for his next step to everlasting power -- Matt Bevan, ABC News Online
What is Russia's Putin up to? -- Paul Kirby BBC
'Not Everything Works Out': Medvedev's Career, in Photos -- Moscow Times

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

and Trump? why not?

Anonymous said...

Democrats insincerely ask "What if?"

The only one, who has done it in America, was FDR and he was grand daddy Democrat.

More gaslighting by the Demofuck party.

Roger Smith said...


And in a few years, his taxpayer bought headstone will be the biggest of all.