Putin to run for president as an independent candidate: sources

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin will run for president again as an independent candidate with a wide support base but not on a party ticket, the state-backed RIA news agency cited two senior pro-Kremlin lawmakers as saying on Saturday. Putin, who has been in power as either president or prime minister for more than two decades, has announced he will seek another six-year term in March next year in an election he is comfortably expected to win. He will not run as a candidate for the ruling United Russia (UR) party even though he has its complete support but as an independent candidate, Andrei...