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<p>Russian lawmakers a floating a title for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vladimir-putin">Vladimir Putin</a> more fitting of an iron-fisted strongman with a lifetime grip on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kremlin">Kremlin</a>: “Ruler.”</p>
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<p>The nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, which is not what its name might suggest to Americans, proposed the new moniker, “pravitel” in Russian, as a replacement for Putin’s current title of “president,” <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-called-ruler-russia-new-proposal-ldpr-kremlin-1723295">Newsweek reported</a>. The reason, according to the party, is that “president” never really rolled off the Russian tongue.</p>
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<p>&#8220;In our country, by historical standards, [president] is generally a new word, and until it takes root completely, you can safely replace it,” the party said in a statement. “For example, with the phrase ‘head of state’ or the word ‘ruler.’ Both are more understandable to the Russian ear.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">MISSION CREEP:  RU&#39;s nationalist Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) has proposed replacing Putin’s title of “President” with the more august appellation of “Ruler”. Previously, the head of the the LDPR floated a proposal to call Putin the &quot;Supreme Ruler&quot;.  <a href="https://t.co/WqG0GTftxB">https://t.co/WqG0GTftxB</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Chuck Pfarrer | Indications &amp; Warnings | (@ChuckPfarrer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckPfarrer/status/1546822568522432512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>“President” has “always embarrassed us,” the party said.</p>
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<p>Putin also served two stints as prime minister in his two-decade-plus tenure as a way of getting around term limits.</p>
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<p>Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the party’s long-time leader and a Putin sycophant, proposed on several occasions referring to the president as the &#8220;Supreme Ruler.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Two years ago, the Russian parliament nixed an LDPR proposal to call the president &#8220;supreme ruler.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The Kremlin said at the time that Putin<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>had no view on the proposal.</p>
<p class="" data-t="{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}">The Kremlin, which could make the change, responded in neutral terms.</p>
<p class="" data-t="{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}">&#8220;It is a new idea. There is no position on this matter,&#8221; said Putin&#8217;s top spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, <a href="https://tass.com/politics/1478045">according to</a> Russian state-owned news outlet TASS.</p>
<p class="" data-t="{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}">Earlier this year, Putin likened himself to Tsar Peter the Great in justifying the February invasion of Ukraine. He said he was acting in the tradition of Russia&#8217;s first emperor to recoup ancestral Russian lands.</p>
<p data-t="{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}">&#8220;Peter the Great waged the Great Northern War for 21 years,&#8221; Putin said, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hailing-peter-great-putin-draws-parallel-with-mission-return-russian-lands-2022-06-09/" data-analytics-module="body_link" data-analytics-post-depth="60" data-uri="f890b81d771991376ff986146db1df31">Reuters</a>. &#8220;It would seem that he was at war with Sweden, he took something from them. He did not take anything from them.</p>
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<p>Putin was prime minister of Russia from 1999-2000, and served in the role again from 2008-2012, with presidential terms in between. Despite this seeming change in leadership, no one was confused about who was in charge.</p>
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<p>He was most recently re-elected in 2018, garnering 77% of the vote in an election with <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43455950">many</a> voting irregularities. The next election is set for 2024, and although the nation still has its two-term limit that forced him to change titles in 2008, a 2020 “constitutional reform” granted him the right to run for another two terms.</p>
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