Skip to content
Advertisement

For Putin, winning reelection could be easier than resolving the many challenges facing Russia

FILE - The Rear-Front Memorial sculpted by Lev Golovnitsky and drawn by Yakov Belopolsky, the first part of a triptych also consisting of The Motherland Calls in Volgograd and Warrior Liberator in Treptower Park, Berlin, shows a soldier and a steelworker holding a sword together, with the worker facing the vast steel mills that were key suppliers to the Soviet defense effort is seen with a metallurgical plant in the background in Magnitogorsk, Russia, April 29, 2020. President Vladimir Putin is likely to win another six-year term easily in an election expected in March, using his sweeping grip on Russia’s political scene to extend his tenure of over two decades in power. But he faces daunting challenges. (AP Photo/Maxim Shmakov, File)
FILE - The Rear-Front Memorial sculpted by Lev Golovnitsky and drawn by Yakov Belopolsky, the first part of a triptych also consisting of The Motherland Calls in Volgograd and Warrior Liberator in Treptower Park, Berlin, shows a soldier and a steelworker holding a sword together, with the worker facing the vast steel mills that were key suppliers to the Soviet defense effort is seen with a metallurgical plant in the background in Magnitogorsk, Russia, April 29, 2020. President Vladimir Putin is likely to win another six-year term easily in an election expected in March, using his sweeping grip on Russia’s political scene to extend his tenure of over two decades in power. But he faces daunting challenges. (AP Photo/Maxim Shmakov, File)

More Photo Galleries