Putin inaugurated for THIRD six-year presidential term

After 20k strong protest.

Putin, 59, said: 'I will do all I can to justify the faith of millions of our citizens. I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people.     
'We will achieve our goals if we are a single, united people - if we hold our fatherland dear, strengthen Russian democracy, constitutional rights and freedoms.'
He added: 'We believed in ourselves and in our powers, strengthened the country and restored the dignity of our great nation.

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