Before the start of the election campaign, Russian President Vladimir Putin increasingly began to appear in public space. Kremlin political strategists are trying to present him as a “patriotic” candidate.
This is reported by UK Ministry of Defense on Twitter.
As noted in the summary, on November 9, 2023, the Kremlin announced that Putin would hold his traditional press conference combined with a “direct line” before the end of the year. In 2022, the event was canceled, most likely because the Russian Federation suffered high-profile military defeats in Ukraine in the previous weeks.
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Kremlin planners almost certainly see the event as a major milestone in Putin's expected campaign to secure a fifth presidential term in the March 2024 presidential election, according to British intelligence. Most likely, he will nominate his candidacy before the end of 2023.
Also on November 10, 2023, the Kremlin dictator visited the headquarters of the Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don, where he met with the Chief of the General Staff, General Valery Gerasimov, and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
“This is Putin’s second visit to headquarters in four weeks: it is likely to intensify his ongoing efforts to present himself as a “patriotic” candidate on the eve of the election campaign,” the British Ministry of Defense notes.
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