Vladimir Putin’s ambitions to remain in power in Russia are unveiled. A new law lets Putin run for president twice more. This article is published by TASS:

Russia’s Federation Council (parliament’s upper house) at its plenary meeting on Wednesday passed a law enabling President Vladimir Putin to contest the presidency again.

A number of the law’s provisions were formulated on the basis of amendments to the Constitution, such as a restriction on the number of presidential terms for one person. It is applied to the incumbent head of state regardless of his previous presidencies. This rule allows the current head of state to hold this position for two more terms.

The law stipulates that the vacancy of Russia’s president is open to any citizen of Russia over 35 years of age, who has permanently resided in the country’s territory for no less than 25 years and does not have and never had citizenship or residence permit of another country. This rule does not apply to Russians who “earlier had citizenship of a state that was eventually incorporated entirely or in part into the Russian Federation in accordance with a federal constitutional law.”

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