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Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin born 7 October 1952)
is the current President of Russia .
Vladimir Putin
is a dictator who breaks international law by invading independant nations
by using tactics that are brutal and inhumane.He has his political rivals
killed by assasination or by poison. He will go down in history as a
war criminal.
Putin's rule has been characterised by endemic
corruption, the jailing and repression of political opponents, the
intimidation and suppression of press freedom and fair elections.
Putin's meteoric rise to power was based on one of the
most brutal and bloody military actions in history, the siege of the
Chechen capital of Grozny during the Second Chechen War in 1999.
After the military humiliation of then-Russian
President Boris Yeltsin’s regime by Chechen separatists during the First
Chechen War, Putin took charge of the war when he became Russia’s prime
minister in the summer of 1999. Putin aimed his scorched-earth strategy in
Chechnya at squashing the insurrection that sprung up during the days of
the Soviet Union’s dissolution.
Between late 1999 and early 2000, overwhelming
Russian forces laid siege to Grozny, Chechnya’s capital. As Putin turned
his weapons on civilian targets, 300,000 of Grozny’s 800,000 civilians
fled the city. Between 50,000 and 80,000, most civilians, were killed.
Russian tanks flattened the city.
Born on 7 October, 1952 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) the youngest of
three children of Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin (1911–1999) and Maria
Ivanovna Putina Shelomova; 1911–1998). His grandfather, Spiridon Putin,
was a personal cook to Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. Putin's birth was
preceded by the deaths of two brothers, Viktor and Albert, born in the
mid-1930s. Albert died in infancy and Viktor died of diphtheria during the
Siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany's forces in World War II. Putin's
mother was a factory worker and his father was a conscript in the Soviet
Navy, serving in the submarine fleet in the early 1930s. Early in World
War II, his father served in the destruction battalion of the NKVD
1975
Putin graduates from the law department of Leningrad State University.
1975
Putin joins the KGB's Foreign Intelligence Service.
1983
Putin marries Lyudmila, a specialist in foreign languages. (They now have
two teenage daughters, Katya and Masha.)
1985-90
Putin is assigned to work for the KGB in East Germany.
1990
Putin becomes assistant rector for international affairs at Leningrad
State University. He also serves as an adviser to the chairman of the
Leningrad City Council.
1991-94
Putin serves as chairman of the foreign relations committee of the St.
Petersburg mayor's office.
Aug. 20, 1991
Putin resigns from the KGB.
1994-96
Putin serves as first deputy chairman of the St. Petersburg city
government and chairman of the committee for external relations.
August 1996
Putin is transferred to Moscow to work as President Boris Yeltsin's first
deputy manager.
March 1997
Putin becomes Yeltsin's deputy chief of staff in charge of the Main
Control Department.
May 1998
Putin is named presidential first deputy chief of staff in charge of
Russian regions.
July 1998 - August 1999
Putin serves as director of the Federal Security Service, a successor
agency to the KGB.
March - August 1999
Putin also serves as Russian Security Council secretary.
August 1999
Putin is appointed prime minister.
Dec. 31, 1999
Yeltsin abruptly resigns, naming Putin acting president pending elections.
March 26, 2000
Putin is elected president of Russia. He wins in the first round,
capturing just over 50 percent of the vote.
March 14 , 2004: re-elected President of Russia for a second term.
May 8 2008: appointed Prime Minister by presidential decree 2008–2012
Elected President of Russia on May 4, 2012 2012–2018
2018–present: Fourth presidential term
2021
Following a referendum, he decreed constitutional amendments into law,
allowing him to run for president twice more, meaning Putin could be
Russia’s president up until 2036.
Ph.D. in Economics; fluent in German and English.
Family status: divorced Lyudmila Putina in 2013 , two daughters, Maria (b.
1985) and Katerina (b. 1986).
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