Putin to seek re-election in 2024

Vladimir Putin has decided to run in the March 2024 presidential election, which will likely keep him in power until at least 2030 and could continue his tenure until 2036

Longest-serving Russian leaders (days in office)


Mar 17, 2024: Presidential election

Joseph Stalin 1924-53   10,636
Vladimir Putin 1999-     8,980
Leonid Brezhnev 1964-82  6,601
Nikita Khrushchev 1955-64  3,536
Boris Yeltsin 1991-99      3,096
Mikhail Gorbachev 1985-91  2,480
Dmitry Medvedev 2008-12    1,461
Georgy Malenkov 1953-55      705
Yuri Andropov 1982-84        454
Konstantin Chernenko 1984-85 391
Vladimir Lenin 1922-24       387


Jul 2020: Putin signs executive order amending constitution, allowing him to run for two additional six-year terms

   

       
Putin’s terms 
Prime minister 
President

1999 2005 2010 2015 2020 2024

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