Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declared the presence of over 2 thousand people at Vladimir Putin’s inauguration ceremony. Western leaders were notably absent: in addition to the French ambassador, representatives of Hungary, Slovakia, Greece, Malta and Cyprus were present
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He could now walk with his eyes closed along the corridors of the Kremlin which lead up to the hall of Sant’Andrea, what was the Throne Room of the Presidential Palace of Fly. Although the fifth installation ceremony of Vladimir Putin has more than one discordant element from the last one held on May 7, 2018.
The rain mixed with snow in May replaced the sun of six years ago when the president in office since 2000 was preparing to be sworn in before the Russian Constitution for another term. After the carefree summer of Football World Cup 2018when Russia had opened the doors of the country to fans from all over the world, theRussian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 it marked a point of no return for Putin’s Russia. In recent years the Russian president has been – proudly – among the architects of the change in the geopolitical balance; between repression and the crackdown on rights.
Western countries present at Putin’s inauguration ceremony
Before the ceremony, Moscow said it had invited all foreign ambassadors. United States, Canada and United KingdomHowever, like 20 EU member states, they responded that they would not send any representatives. Tuesday morning the spokesperson of the EU foreign policy Peter Stano had confirmed that the EU ambassador would not be there.
Western leaders were notably absent. In addition to theFrench ambassadoraccording to Radio Liberty, the countries that have decided to have diplomatic representatives participate in the inauguration ceremony were Hungary, Slovakia, Greece, Malta and Cyprus.
Among those present was the Cuban president Miguel Diaz-CanelChechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, actor Steven Seagal.
Borrell’s warning to the 27 before Putin’s inauguration ceremony
“I sent a message to member states, the right thing to do is not to attend Vladimir Putin’s inauguration ceremony and I understand that most will not go.” He said it theEU High Representative Josep Borrell arriving at the Foreign Affairs and Development Council scheduled for today in Brussels. “At the beginning there was discussion among the 27 whether to go or not, at what level, whether ambassador or chargé d’affaires. But the picture for me is clear, going would be a clear contradiction. In the end, however, it will be a decision of the individual member states,” Borrell said.
Kremlin spokesperson: almost 2,600 invited to Putin’s inauguration ceremony
“About 2,600 people are present today in the Kremlin at the inauguration ceremony of the newly elected President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin,” he saidDmitry PeskovKremlin spokesperson, on Russian state television.
The list of invitees to the event is established by the protocol service of the President of the Russian Federation. The ceremony is attended by members of the government, those of the two Houses of the Federal Assembly, the heads of the presidential administration, the judges of the Constitutional Court, the members of the Central Electoral Commission and representatives of the diplomatic corps.
How the inauguration ceremony of the President of the President of the Russian Federation takes place
As usual, the ceremony was held simultaneously in three rooms of the Kremlin, where the guests gather. Depending on the level of political and social authority, some follow the event on screens, others in person. Shortly after eleven o’clock in Italy on Tuesday 7 May the Russian president Vladimir Putin he arrived at the Kremlin in an unusual rain mixed with snow for the inauguration ceremony that inaugurated his fifth term. Shortly afterwards he was officially sworn in as president of the Russian Federation. In his speech Putin paid tribute to the soldiers participating in the conflict in Ukraine: “I bow to our soldiers participating in the special military operation.”
Vladimir Putin’s inauguration: how Russian vocabulary has changed
With Putin’s settlements, the Russian vocabulary also changed: the term installation ceremony, in Russian инаугурация (inauguratsia, literally “inauguration”), was introduced into the country by Boris Yeltsin. The term was non-existent before that moment for a purely linguistic issue: in fact, in the Russian language there are no sequences within a word such as “au”, “ua”, “eu”.
“inauguratsia”, which is difficult for Russians to pronounce, is no exception. In 1996 even journalists, when reporting the event, preferred to talk about Boris Yeltsin’s entry into office and not his “inauguration”, to avoid mistakes. More than twenty years later, the term has taken root in the Russian language and Kremlin protocol.
Pulitzer Prize to imprisoned dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza
Among the Pulitzer Prizes awarded on Monday 6 May, the one that went to Washington Post for the editorials of columnistVladimir Kara-Murza from prison. Despite detention from April 2022 on RussiaKara-Murza continued to write opinion pieces on Russian President Vladimir Putin, the invasion of Ukraine, the death of Alexei Navalny and repression in the country.
