INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskovsaid late Sunday.Putin is widely expected to declare his bid for a sixth overall presidential term
democracy, it is costly bureaucracy..
passed in the wake of the invasion last year, and most prominent opposition activists have fled abroad in fear of being jailed.This year,
elections in dozens of regions across Russia will be held in September, with 18 regional heads, members of 16 regional parliaments, and 12
town councils, as well as the mayor of Khabarovsk in the Far East, being elected by direct vote.The Kremlin is also expected to hold a vote
in the four Ukrainian territories it claimed to have annexed last fall.
