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Mr Putin placed on special protective equipment as he went to coronavirus clients at a medical facility in Moscow on Tuesday.
The proposed changes include scrapping a restriction on allowing Mr Putin to run for workplace once again.
The modifications have currently been approved by parliament and Russia’s constitutional court.
They would offer Mr Putin – who is serving his fourth presidential term and has controlled Russian politics for 2 decades – the right to serve two more successive terms.
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Russia has more than 650 verified cases.
Mr Putin likewise announced that Russians would not work next week “to slow the speed” of the infection.
But he cautioned that it was impossible to avoid any spread of the virus at all in Russia since of the nation’s size.
This is Vladimir Putin bowing, finally, to the inevitable.
Holding a nationwide vote in a pandemic ha