This second paragraph you posted (and which is taken from the new constitution i suppose?), effectivley makes the first praragraph non-binding. Or in short, the first paragraph could now be spared, it now is a more or less clever (or helpless) justification.
Technically, they could have extended Putin's reign to 2356, but as said before nature will probably limit this.
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