Russian referendum 2020

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On 20 January 2020, President Vladimir Putin submitted the draft amendments to the State Duma, expecting 14 articles to be changed in total:

• the Russian constitution will supersede international law;
• the State Duma will have the right to approve a Prime Minister's candidacy
• the eligibility term requiring competing candidates for high-profile offices to have no foreign citizenship or permit of residence in foreign countries
• the minimal residency requirement for presidential candidates will be raised from 10 years to 25
• the Federation Council will be able to propose to the President to dismiss Federal judges
• heads of law enforcement agencies must be appointed by the President in consultation with the Federation Council
• the minimum wage cannot be lower than the subsistence minimum
• regular indexation of pensions
• consolidation of the status and role of the State Council (at present it is only an advisory body and is not prescribed in the Constitution)
• granting the Constitutional Court the ability to check the constitutionality of laws adopted by the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation at the request of the President before they are signed by the President
• removal of the term "in a row" (Russian: подряд, romanized: podryad) from the article regulating presidential term limits, discounting previous and current terms before the amendment entered into force
• defining marriage as a relationship between one man and one woman
• enshrine the status of the Russian language in the country's constitution

The referendum have finished and all articles passed.
While some world leaders have congratulated Putin the US and EU remains sceptical.

Ergo:
Putin can stay in power
Only local politicians for a local people
Only heterosexual marriages are recognised

Zebra3

Not sure who cares what the US thinks.

They support the head choppers in Riyadh, so they hardly have a case for taking the moral high ground.

James Brown

Making the Putin dictatorship all nice and legal is all. We all do business with them and China. If there's money to be made morals or ethics go out the window.