>The president has also suggested complementing Russia’s Constitution with a special requirement that a candidate running for the post of head state should be a resident of Russia for no less than 25 years and have neither foreign citizenship nor an overseas residence permit, not just at the moment of the election, but never before in the past.
>Under the Constitution today, any Russian citizen who has lived in the country for no less than ten years can be elected as Russia’s president.
This is the real reason for the freakout.
A certain group destroyed Russia, ruled the Soviet and then lost it (why they have such a grudge agains RUSHAH), and are the oligarchs even today. They planned to insert one of their own as a way to regain power and control.