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Putin is in power longer than Brezhnev, calculated yesterday, September 13, 2017, Rain TV channel:

Vladimir Putin "Distant" Leonid Brezhnev. The Russian leader spent more in power for the day than the Secretary General of the CPSU Central Committee. Today, Putin runs Russia 6602 days.

The authors of the counting, however, corrects Oleg Kashin :

Already cursed on this subject with Ilya Klisin - to count from August 9, 99 incorrectly, the first person Putin became December 31, do not go away, he will leave Brezhnev only in February!

Leonid Brezhnev became the first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee on October 14, 1964 and died on November 10, 1982 (as a secretary General). This is 6601 Day of stay in power.

Putin became the acting chairman of the government (and at the same time was declared the successor of Boris Yeltsin on August 9, 1999. And only on December 31 of the same year, when Yeltsin announced an early resignation, Putin became the acting president of Russia. So, probably, to count the term of his stay in power is more logical from this date. Then Putin will celebrate 6602 days in power on January 27, 2018-if you count for continuous experience at the head of state and his four-year stay as prime minister from 2008 to 2012, when the position of president was held by Dmitry Medvedev.

However, before Stalin, if we consider it the head of the Soviet state from the day of Lenin’s death to his own death - and this is 10,636 days - Putin is far away.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, meanwhile, recalls another date :

On September 14 (September 1, according to the old style), the Provisional Government in Petrograd, which simultaneously fought off from the advent of the Germans, the rebellion of Kornilov and from the Bolsheviks, made an important, indifferent for 100 years, the decision: "Provisional government ... proclaims the Russian republic."

So, since September 1917, and still Russia remains the republic, which is enshrined in the first paragraph of the Russian Constitution.

The republican form of government determines the election and control of power to citizens, and Article 3 of the Constitution directly prohibits "the assignment of power in the Russian Federation." The republic is a “common cause”, and not the case of the president, his family or circle of individuals whom no one has chosen to exercise power in Russia.

That is why, from a legal point of view, both those who are looking for what exotic subspecies to attribute the current regime, and those who consider it necessary to recognize the entire Russian state are mistaken. We are dealing with a vulgar usurpation of power, its very center, a relatively small group of persons using the presidential position as a universal master key to state mechanisms ...

... we have a republic. It remains to clean her from the rogue, gathered (in the broad sense) behind the Kremlin wall. How? Having made his choice not in favor of the new leader, but in favor of parliamentarism and the real political representation of the regions. And defending your choice.

And the last date for today: 150 years ago, on September 14, 1867, in Hamburg, the first volume of Karl Marx, the mighty ideological weapon of the working class and the entire advanced humanity in the struggle against capitalist slavery, was released for the first time.