Vladimir Putin was sworn in for a six-year term on 7 May 2024 at a Kremlin ceremony.
The United States and many other Western countries boycotted the ceremony due to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Putin has been in power as president or prime minister since 1999.
In March, Putin got a landslide victory in the elections.
If Putin completes his full six-year term, he will overtake Soviet leader Josef Stalin and become Russia’s longest-serving leader since the eighteenth-century Empress Catherine the Great.
Mikhail Mishustin is the current Prime Minister of Russia.
The type of government in Russia is a federal semi-presidential republic.
