This May 9 Macquerra the 80th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany. An important day for the Kremlin which will organize, as every year, a military parade for which many people will go to the Russian capital. Putin would have hoped for a three -day truce from May 8 to 10, but Ukraine opposed it.
Interviewed by Pavel Zarubin, one of the main correspondents of the Kremlin for the public television channel Russia-1, the Russian president returned to various subjects. Among these, the annexation of Crimea by Moscow, the use of nuclear weapons and its succession. Aged 72, the president has been in power since May 7, 2000. Speculations around his successor are fused. Putin said during this interview that he was thinking “constantly” to the person who could replace him and “studied several candidates”. The Russian president explained: “In the end, the choice belongs to the Russian people, to citizens, to voters. A person who does not have the confidence of the people is unlikely to act seriously. It is an absolutely fundamental question.”
