MOSCOW, December 19. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that it might be possible to remove a clause from the Russian Constitution stipulating that an individual cannot hold the post of head of state for more than two terms in a row.

"What might be done in relation to these presidential terms is to remove the ‘consecutive’ clause (in the Russian Constitution concerning the presidential terms of office)," Putin told the customary year-end news conference in Moscow on Thursday. “Yours truly spent two terms in office and then I left and had the constitutional right to take the presidential reigns again, because it was not two terms in a row," he recalled.

Putin remarked that this wording made "some political scientists and public figures feel certain confusion."

Under the Russian Constitution, "the same person cannot take post of Russia’s president for more than two consecutive terms."