Putin, who turns 69 this year, is currently serving his fourth presidential term, which is expected to end in 2024. The new legislation, which was announced on Monday, could allow him to serve another six terms of six years if he were to elect to stand and win re-election both times.
The new law formalizes the results of last year’s referendum on amendments to the Russian constitution.
In addition to limiting Putin’s term, the referendum was also a vote on a series of other amendments, including a provision that strictly defined marriage as a ‘union of a man and a woman’.
Navalny was flown to Germany for emergency treatment after his poisoning in Siberia last year, which he said was ordered by Putin and carried out by agents of the Russian security service, the FSB. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied the allegations.
Navalny hunger strike
Navalny said Monday he would continue the strike despite high temperatures and a bad cough amid a tuberculosis outbreak among his inmates, according to an Instagram report his team shared on his official account.
“The third person in my group was recently hospitalized with tuberculosis,” Navalny said. “There are 15 people in the ward, that is to say 20% of them are sick. It is much higher than the epidemiological threshold. And what? Do you think there is an emergency, ambulance sirens are screaming? Nobody cares, the bosses are just worried about hiding the stats. ‘
He criticized the recent coverage of the conditions in the penal colony by the Russian state media after Maria Butina, an employee of the state broadcaster RT, visited the prison and said ‘practical’.
Butina spent time in a U.S. prison after pleading guilty by trying to infiltrate conservative political circles and advance Russian interests before and after the 2016 presidential election.
On Instagram, Navalny said there are “unhygienic conditions, tuberculosis, a lack of medicine. When I look at the horrible plates in which it places our anger, I am generally surprised that there is no Ebola virus here yet.”
He added that the prison does not have the nutrition and nutrients needed to keep prisoners healthy.
“I am, of course, continuing my hunger strike,” Navalny wrote in the post. “I have a legally guaranteed right to invite a specialist doctor at my own expense. I will not give it up; jail doctors can be trusted just as much as state TV.”
A prominent Russian doctors ‘union affiliated with the opposition, Doctors’ Alliance, which is run by a Navalny ally, said later on Monday via a YouTube video that a group of doctors would go to Navalny’s prison on Tuesday for proper medical treatment. demand attention to the opposition figure.