Putin announces 2024 presidential bid --About 70% of Russian citizens believe their current leader should seek another term in office, according to a recent poll | 8 Dec 2023 | Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that he will seek reelection. Should he win, it will be his fifth term as head of state. The presidential election will be held between March 15 and March 17, 2024. The winner will be inaugurated in early May. Putin made his remarks at a ceremony where he awarded Hero of Russia medals to servicemen who had taken part in the military operation against Ukraine. Hero of the Donetsk People's Republic Artyom Zhoga, who was recently named speaker of the Russian federal subject's parliament, asked if he would run in 2024 and he replied in the affirmative. The footage from the ceremony shows Zhoga shaking hands with Putin and telling him that the entire Donbass would like him to participate in the election. "Thanks to your actions...we became free, we got the opportunity to choose...You are our president...We are your team, we need you, Russia needs you," he said. [Exactly. Everyone loves Putin - the bulwark against the WEF and the New World Order. Conversely, everyone wants Joe Biden gone - except for the deep state which installed him and benefits from his lunacy. --LRP]