President Putin’s 2024 Inauguration Ceremony
by RT [5-7-2024 published].
(Regardless of how you feel about Russia & President Putin, this is a video worth watching all the way through. You get to see the impressive gold-plated Grand Kremlin Palace, the Presidential Regiment in the Kremlin's Cathedral Square & the blessing from Patriarch Kirill who is head of the Russian Orthodox Church. During the main ceremony, notice the ethnic diversity of the Russians. Also realize that many of them lived through the 1991 collapse of the former Soviet Union and have watched and been party to the incredible rejuvenation of modern Russia, which is not like the former Soviet Union. Remember that the Soviet Union lost 27 million people while defending their country from Nazi Germany and defeating Germany. The Communist Party no longer dominates Russia. — RAD)
The Russian leader has taken the oath of office for his fifth term as President in a ceremony in Moscow in the Grand Kremlin Palace for another 6-year term.
The inauguration of Vladimir Putin, who is taking the oath of office for his fifth term as president, took place at the Kremlin in Moscow on Tuesday.
The 71-year-old veteran politician was reelected earlier this year with a record 87.28% of the vote.
The principal elements of the ceremony have remained unchanged since 1996, when Boris Yeltsin began his second term in office, though some details were different. For instance, Putin used an updated version of the presidential vehicle, the Aurus Senat, during the event.
The ceremony was attended by representatives of the Federal Assembly (Russian parliament), judges of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, members of government and the Central Election Commission, as well as outstanding scientists, artists, renowned athletes, and foreign guests.
A 30-gun salute followed Putin’s remarks. He reviewed the Presidential Regiment in the Kremlin’s Cathedral Square in a light drizzle and then walked into nearby Annunciation Cathedral for a blessing from Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
During the brief service, Kirill compared Putin to Prince Alexander Nevsky, the medieval ruler who “courageously defended their people on the battlefield.”
He reminded Putin that the head of state sometimes “has to take fateful and formidable decisions” that can lead to victims, an apparent reference to the many casualties in Ukraine — a conflict the church has endorsed.
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