Vladimir Putin will be inaugurated on Tuesday to underline his power in Russia

Vladimir Putin is expected to be inaugurated Tuesday for a fifth term as president in a gilded hall of the Kremlin palace where Russian tsars were once crowned. The traditional pomp and ceremony is designed to express his power as Russia’s supreme and undisputed leader over the past quarter century.

As Putin met with members of the government on Monday, preparing to begin his new term, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that it would soon hold tactical nuclear missile exercises, accusing Western officials of exaggerated rhetoric over the war in Ukraine . The Russian Foreign Ministry also summoned the British and French ambassadors to reprimand them, sending a tough message about Russia’s toughening approach towards the West.