Putin said the joke incorrectly because the tsar just sat there and gave the order, and he worked every day.

"This is not true, you can call others tsar. I do not rule but work every day. Tsar is someone who just sits in a high place and says: 'They will do what I command'", Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with TASS on March 18, after being asked what he felt when others jokingly called him tsar.

Putin said that while everyone was working, the czar "tried on a hat" and looked at himself in the mirror. "I am the opposite, I work every day," the Russian president said.

Putin said he never thought he would be in power for so long during his 20 years in leadership. Asked about the possibility of leaving the leadership position, Putin said he was "responsible for what is happening and what happens in the future".

In 2008, Putin did not think about returning to the presidency while serving as prime minister, but he was not determined to give up. "At that time there was an option that I wasn't sure about. However, having an option means being able to," Putin said.

Former President Boris Yeltsin resigned on the night of December 31, 1999 and returned power to Putin, then Russian Prime Minister. Two months later, Putin boarded Su-27 fighter jets to a war zone in Chechnya and vowed to crush the rebels. This contributed to his overwhelming victory in the March 2000 presidential election.

Putin was re-elected in the 2004 presidential election, then became Russian prime minister in 2008-2012 when Dmitry Medvedev assumed the presidency. Putin is elected to the third term in 2012 and the fourth term in 2018. The proposed amendments to the constitution of the Russian House of Representatives on March 10 will reset the previous presidential term to zero and Putin may run for additional elections. two more terms.