Kremlin ceremony boycotted by the United States and a number of other western countries
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 Russia n forces have regained the initiative after a series of reversals and are seeking to advance further in the east.
“For Russia, this is the continuation of our path, this is stability – you can ask any citizen on the street,” Sergei Chemezov, a close Putin ally, told Reuters before the ceremony.How Marine Le Pen fell out with the German far right Putin in March won a landslide victory in a tightly controlled election from which two anti-war candidates were barred on technical grounds., died suddenly in an Arctic penal colony a month earlier, and other leading critics are in jail or have been forced to flee abroad.“No, we will not have a representative at his inauguration,” Matthew Miller, a US state department spokesman, said on Monday.
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