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After the elections, Russian leader Vladimir Putin returned to the lifestyle he led before the start of the election campaign. He rarely leaves the Kremlin and his residences. As he writes “group”over the past two weeks not a single off-site event has been held on the president’s schedule.

According to the publication, from the beginning of the presidential election campaign on December 8 to April 20, the Kremlin announced 100 off-site events with Putin’s participation. In particular, 31 events outside the Kremlin and presidential residences were held in the last pre-election month, between February 17 and March 17. During this time, Putin managed to visit Chelyabinsk, Tatarstan, Stavropol and Krasnodar regions.

However, in the last week before the elections (March 11-17), Putin did not travel outside the Kremlin or Novo-Ogarevo.

Since the election, Putin’s travel numbers have dropped dramatically.

In the month from March 17 to April 17, only 10 events outside the Kremlin and residences were reported, one of which was a concert in honor of the annexation of Crimea, which took place the day after the elections. Putin left the Moscow region only once a month.

The president’s activity has fallen particularly suddenly in the last two weeks. Since April 5 (on this day a dam broke in Orsk), Putin has participated in only two online meetings dedicated to eliminating the effects of the flood and there was one online meeting with the government on implementation of Russian software, on video calls with the governors. several regions and Crimea, and also received in the Kremlin, Alexander Lukashenko and several officials. He also spoke on the phone with the leaders of Iran and Kazakhstan.

Putin has not made a single trip over the past two weeks. In particular, on April 10, Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said that the head of state would not travel to areas affected by floods. For this, Putin was criticized on social networks.

As the Group remembers, in the last year before the elections, Putin reduced his visits to the minimum. In 2023, he spent only 147 days in public. The rest of the time, he did not travel outside his residences, and neither journalists nor anyone but close officials and loyal politicians were invited to his meetings.

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On March 15-17, presidential elections were held in Russia, which were held, among other things, in the occupied territories of Ukraine. The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation appointed Vladimir Putin as the “new president” of the aggressive country with a result exceeding 88%.

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