Anna Malpas | Putin Returns to Kremlin Like Hollywood Movie Star

Posted on May 08 2012 – 7:00 AM – Posted by: Doug Brady

Filmed every red-carpeted step from his government office to the podium where  he took his oath, Vladimir Putin returned to the Kremlin Monday with all the  pomp and swagger of a Hollywood star.

Applause, pealing bells and cannon fire greeted his swearing in for his third  term as president after four years as prime minister for constitutional  reasons.

Wearing a red tie to match the carpet and a dark suit, he had descended  unaccompanied the steps of the White House building, where he had worked as his  protege Dmitry Medvedev’s head of government.

Climbing into a sleek black armoured car, Putin drove in a motorcade through  an eerily empty city, cruising down a deserted six-lane highway on his regular  route to the Kremlin.

Six Russian television channels gave spectacular simultaneous coverage from a  helicopter hovering overhead on a picture-perfect spring day and from cameras  travelling ahead of the motorcade’s front line of police motorbikes.

Nothing was left to chance.

The authorities closed the roads three hours ahead of the inauguration and  even neighbouring metro stations shut for the occasion, ensuring that any  opposition scuffles with police would be firmly out of sight.

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