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US: Joe Biden all set to swear as the President of United States

The United States President is due to be sworn in as Democrat Joe Biden as its 46th president, a country beaten by deep political divisions and the coronavirus pandemic.

Wednesday, 20th January 2021

US President-Elect Joe Biden

The United States President is due to be sworn in as Democrat Joe Biden as its 46th president, a country beaten by deep political divisions and the coronavirus pandemic.

The inauguration ceremony is scheduled to begin at 10:30 am local time on Wednesday (15:30 GMT), amid exceptional security is deployed to tackle aggressive supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump after the wake of the storming display of the US Capitol Building on 6 January Will be done.

The size of the crowd will be extremely limited as the capital, Washington, DC - has been under lockdown due to security fears triggered by a deadly riot in the Capitol - the setting of the US government.

Trump was impeached for his role in the Capitol attack, becoming the first president in American history to get impeachment twice. Critics say the outgoing president's repeated false claims that November elections were stolen resulted in the eruption of capital violence. Breaking from tradition, Trump will not attend the swearing-in of Biden and all subsequent surviving presidents.

The Kremlin said that any improvement in Moscow's strained relations with Washington would depend on Joe Biden upon entering the White House.

The United States recently blamed Kremlin-backed hackers for a major cyberattack that violated government institutions, adding to a long list of complaints of relations between former Cold War rivals.

"Russia will live for hundreds of years: calls for good relations with the United States," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Peskov said whether or not Washington works to achieve the same goal "will depend on Mr. Biden and his team."

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