Top court rules that Putin move to amend constitution to run again for president is legal

Russia's Constitutional Court on Monday ruled that President Vladimir Putin...

FILE PHOTO: Russia's President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a session of the lower house of parliament to consider constitutional changes in Moscow, Russia March 10, 2020. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

MOSCOW - Russia’s Constitutional Court on Monday ruled that President Vladimir Putin’s proposed changes to the constitution that could allow him to remain in power until 2036 were in line with Russian law. Putin last week backed an amendment that would allow him to ignore a constitutional ban on him running again for president in 2024.

Reporting by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber, Writing by Alexander Marrow; Editing by Andrew Osborn in Moscow

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