Putin expected to win Russia’s referendum even without all the incentives
Government ads urging people to get out and vote (or stay home and vote—for this time only they can do it online) barely mention that the new constitution will ‘reset the clock’ for Vladimir Putin. That means he will be entitled to run for two more terms as president, which might let him stay in office until 2036, but his advisers reckoned that was more information than people actually needed.
LONDON, U.K.—“The very existence of an opportunity for the current president (to be re-elected in 2024), given his major gravitas, would be a stabilizing factor for our society,” said Valentina Tereshkova, former Soviet cosmonaut, first woman in space, and now, at 83, a member of the Russian D...
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