Russian party proposes replacing Putin's title of 'president' with an old Russian word for ruler

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A Pro-Kremlin Russian political party called for Vladimir Putin's title to change from "president" to an archaic term meaning "ruler," state media reported on Sunday.

Russia's far-right Liberal Democrat Party (LDPR) made the proposal to call Russia's leader "pravitel" (правитель , the state-owned press service RIA Novosti reported.

The LDPR is notionally an opposition party in Russia. However, it and other non-ruling parties generally support the agenda of Putin and his allies.

The LDPR argued that "president" is a relatively new term that only came into use in Russia with the fall of the Soviet Union, per RIA. Soviet leaders were generally called chairman or general secretary.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-party-proposes-replacing-putins-title-of-president-with-an-old-russian-word-for-ruler/ar-AAZtFZO

Just call him Tsar. That's what he really wants.

[TexasTowelie]

1. I prefer to use the word "asshole" for his title rather than tsar. nt

[OLDMDDEM]

2. How about asshole?

[delisen]

3. I suggest DePravid

[PoliticAverse]

4. Not as good as...

His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular”

[Retrograde]

5. That's a good one

or he could be traditional and go with "By the Grace of God, We Vladimir, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod; Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Tsar of Tauric Chersonesus, Tsar of Georgia; Lord of Pskov, and Grand Prince of Smolensk, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia, and Finland; Prince of Estonia, Livonia, Courland and Semigalia, Samogitia, Bielostok, Karelia, Tver, Yugor, Perm, Vyatka, Bogar and others; Sovereign and Grand Prince of Nizhni Novgorod, Chernigov, Ryazan, Polotsk, Rostov, Jaroslavl, Beloozero, Udoria, Obdoria, Kondia, Vitebsk, Mstislav, and Ruler of all the Severian country; Sovereign and Lord of Iveria, Kartalinia, the Kabardian lands and Armenian province: hereditary Sovereign and Possessor of the Circassian and Mountain Princes and of others; Sovereign of Turkestan, Heir of Norway, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Stormarn, Dithmarschen, and Oldenburg, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth." - from the formal title of Nicholas II

[lpbk2713]

6. Despot would fit nicely.

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[Retrograde]

7. "DesPutin" (n/t)

[lpbk2713]

8. Has a nice ring to it.

That will work.