FILE – Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with residents following a visit to the Solnechniy Dar greenhouse complex, part of the ECO-Culture agro-industrial holding, outside Stavropol, Russia, on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Putin is poised to sweep to another six-year term in the March 15-17 presidential election, relying on his rigid control of the country established during his 24 years in power — the longest Kremlin tenure since Soviet leader Josef Stalin. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)