Putin tells soldiers: I will run for president again in 2024

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday told soldiers who had fought in the Ukraine war that he would run for president again in the 2024 election, a move that will allow the former KGB spy to stay in power until at least 2030. Putin, who was handed the presidency by Boris Yeltsin on the last day of 1999, has already served as president for longer than any other ruler of Russia since Josef Stalin, beating even Leonid Brezhnev's 18-year tenure. After Putin awarded Ukraine war veterans with Russia's highest military honour, the Hero of Russia gold star, ...