 Kremlin considers whom to choose as Putin's election opponent so he does not look old. Russian President Vladimir Putin's administration is choosing opponents for Putin in the 2024 presidential election and has decided that it will not register candidates under 50 so that Putin does not look like an old man. Medusa, a Latvia-based Russian independent news outlet, reported this. The political bloc of the Russian presidential administration, headed by Sergei Kirienko, has decided on sparring partners who will compete with Vladimir Putin in the 2024 presidential election. As two media sources close to the Kremlin said, one of the main criteria for their selection was age. There should be no politicians under the age of 50 among the registered candidates. According to Russian presidential administration officials, the presence of such candidates on the ballot may make Russians think that 70-year-old Putin is no longer the man who came to power with a firm hand, Medusa said. Putin's administration expects representatives of three parliamentary parties to run in the election, the Communist Party, the Liberal Democratic Party and the New People Party. The Kremlin sees Gennady Zuganov as a candidate from the Communist Party. According to the Kremlin's plan, Leonid Slutsky, the Liberal Democratic Party's leader, should be a candidate. The New People candidate is more complicated. The Kremlin would like to see the party's chairman, businessman Alexei Nechov, run. However, this plan has not yet been agreed upon with Nechov himself.