Russian President Vladimir Putin’s victory in the March election was never in question and the prospect of his inauguration has generated little excitement © Sputnik/AFP/File / Michael KlimentyevMoscow, Russian Federation, May 6 – Vladimir Putin will on Monday be inaugurated for his fourth Kremlin term under the shadow of hugely strained ties with the West and a crackdown on the opposition, with Alexei Navalny and hundreds more detained at the weekend.
Opposition leader Navalny was held along with nearly 1,600 of his supporters on Saturday during nationwide rallies against Putin as police and paramilitary activists used force to break up demonstrations …read more
Source: Capital News
