•HRES 1087 IH 
Whereas Vladimir Putin has been President of the Russian 
Federation for two sets of consecutive terms on two occa-
sions, the first lasting from May 7, 2000, to May 7, 
2008, and the second, current, and final consecutive 
terms beginning May 7, 2012, and expiring on May 7, 
2024; 
Whereas, on July 3, 2020, following votes in both chambers 
of the Federal Assembly and in regional legislatures and 
a nationwide popular vote, President Vladimir Putin 
signed Presidential Decree No. 445 enacting 206 amend-
ments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, in-
cluding an amendment waiving the term limit for him 
personally and for Dmitry Medvedev, allowing him to 
seek 2 more 6-year Presidential terms after May 7, 2024; 
Whereas the enactment of constitutional amendments had 
been conditioned on approval of such amendments in a 
nationwide vote, referred to as ‘‘all-Russia voting’’, that 
was held between June 25 and July 1, 2020, under the 
unprecedented conditions of the COVID–19 pandemic; 
Whereas the 2020 all-Russia voting was invented specifically 
for voting on Vladimir Putin’s constitutional amendments 
and was an ad hoc type of voting previously unknown in 
Russia; 
Whereas this voting was marked by widespread reports of or-
ganized voter coercion, multiple voting, ballot-stuffing, 
and violation of the secrecy of the ballot, and by one- 
sided media coverage in favor of the amendments, while 
opponents of the amendments were not given airtime in 
the media and had their campaign rallies prohibited and 
their websites blocked; 
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Whereas voting was held over 7 days and was conducted not 
only in regular polling places but also in makeshift loca-
tions, including park benches, car trunks, and shopping 
carts, with ballots stored overnight by the electoral com-
missions with no independent oversight; 
Whereas in violation of the laws of the Russian Federation 
and the commitments of the Russian Federation under 
the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Eu-
rope and the Council of Europe, of which Russia was a 
member at the time, Russian authorities did not invite 
international observers to monitor the vote and limited 
domestic observers to those appointed by state-controlled 
Public Chambers; 
Whereas the Central Electoral Commission of the Russian 
Federation began announcing the results of the vote be-
fore voting had concluded; 
Whereas in a statement following the voting, the leaders of 
the United States delegation to the Parliamentary As-
sembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation 
in Europe, Senator Roger Wicker and the late Represent-
ative Alcee Hastings, said that ‘‘the outcome of this vote 
was decided long before the ballots were tallied’’ and that 
‘‘State-sponsored fraud, coercion, and obfuscation make 
it impossible to know the true will of the Russian peo-
ple’’; 
Whereas Senator James Risch, then-Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, has stated 
that the ‘‘sham vote, masquerading as a referendum, has 
swept away all remnants of Putin’s legitimacy’’; 
Whereas the Department of State has held that ‘‘[a]round 
the world, as a matter of principle, the United States op-
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poses constitutional amendments that favor incumbents 
or extend their terms in office, particularly in contexts 
where necessary conditions for free and fair democratic 
processes are lacking’’; 
Whereas Vladimir Putin has violated every international 
norm and obligation freely undertaken by the Russian 
Federation with his unprovoked and brutal full-scale in-
vasion of Ukraine; 
Whereas Vladimir Putin has openly denied the existence of 
the Ukrainian people and authorized genocidal action to 
erase Ukrainian identity; 
Whereas Vladimir Putin has made clear his intention to push 
militarily beyond Ukraine if given the opportunity into 
NATO member countries and beyond in his expressed ef-
fort to reconstruct a Russian imperial entity; 
Whereas Vladimir Putin incarcerated Alexei Navalny, one of 
his strongest remaining opposition figures, who exposed 
the terrible extent of corruption present in his lawless re-
gime and was nearly killed by a nerve agent attack car-
ried out by Russian security services in 2020; and 
Whereas Alexei Navalny was imprisoned in inhumane condi-
tions, often times in solitary confinement with very little 
food and little to no exercise in the most oppressive pris-
on in Siberia, IK–3 penal colony, where he died under 
unknown but highly suspicious circumstances on Feb-
ruary 16, 2024: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) the 2020 amendments to the Constitution 
of the Russian Federation were enacted in violation 
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of the laws and international commitments of the 
Russian Federation and many of the amendments 
are in breach of the so-called ‘‘unchangeable parts’’ 
of the Constitution: Chapter 1 ‘‘Fundamentals of 
the Constitutional System’’ and Chapter 2 ‘‘Human 
and Civil Rights and Freedoms’’; 
(2) the waiver of the Presidential term limit re-
sulting from those amendments is illegitimate; and 
(3) any attempt by President of the Russian 
Federation Vladimir Putin to remain in office be-
yond the end of his current and final term on May 
7, 2024, shall warrant nonrecognition on the part of 
the United States. 
Æ 
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