Putin Begins Fifth Term As Russia’s President, Says Talks With West Only On Equal Terms

Vladimir Putin was sworn in as Russia’s President for the fifth time on Tuesday. He took oath for a six-year term at a Kremlin ceremony that was boycotted by the United States and a number of other Western countries due to Russia's war in Ukraine.

Putin, in power as president or prime minister since 1999, begins his new mandate more than two years after he sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine, where Russian forces have regained the initiative after a series of reversals and are seeking to advance further in the east.

In March, Putin won a landslide victory in a tightly controlled election from which two anti-war candidates were barred on technical grounds.

His best known opponent, Alexei Navalny, died in an Arctic penal colony a month earlier, and other leading critics are in jail or have been forced to flee abroad.

(With inputs from Reuters)

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