Under the shadow of hugely strained ties with the West, Vladimir Putin inaugurated his fourth Kremlin term on Monday.
Putin 4.0 begins amid crackdown on the opposition, with Alexei Navalny and hundreds more detained during the weekend.
Opposition leader Navalny was briefly detained along with nearly 1,600 of his supporters on Sunday during nationwide rallies against Putin as police and paramilitary activists used force to break up demonstrations in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
Putin, who has ruled Russia for 18 years and used his last term to annex Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and launch a military campaign in Syria on the …read more
Source: Daily News & Analysis
