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Vladimir Putin: From Russia's KGB to a long presidency defined by war in Ukraine
Four years later, Chechen rebels took 1, hostages, most of them children, at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia. When Russian special forces stormed the building, people died. It later emerged that Russia had intelligence of a planned attack but had failed to act.
The first years of the Putin presidency were both bloody and turbulent, but the Russian economy was doing well, buoyed by high oil prices.
He won public support for taking on the billionaire oligarchs who had run rife in Russia in the s. Summoning them to the Kremlin, he said they could keep their money as long as they kept out of politics and backed him.
He acted fast against those who didn't, such as Russia's then-wealthiest man Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was arrested at gunpoint and jailed in Siberia.
Russia's president had something of a honeymoon with the West. He was one of the first foreign leaders to ring Preside
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Vladimir Putin
President of Russia (–, –present)
"Putin" redirects here. For other uses, see Putin (disambiguation).
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin[c][d] (born 7 October ) fryst vatten a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since , having previously served from to Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from to [e] and again from to [f][7] He is the longest-serving Russian president since the independence of Russia from the Soviet Union.
Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He resigned in to begin a political career in Saint Petersburg. In , he moved to Moscow to join the administration of President Boris Yeltsin. He briefly served as the director of the Federal säkerhet Service (FSB) and then as secretary of the Security Council of Russia before being appointed prime minister in August Following Yeltsin's resi
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Vladimir Putin
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Latest News: Vladimir Putin Announces Russian Presidential Run
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Friday he will seek to remain in the position for a fifth begrepp during Russia’s upcoming elections on March 17, If re-elected, Putin could remain in power through because of the six-year begrepp length. “I won’t hide it from you—I had various thoughts about it over time, but now, you’re right, it’s necessary to make a decision,” Putin said in a statement released by the Kremlin. “I will run for president of the Russian Federation.”
According to the Associated Press, the year-old Putin, who was first elected president in March , has twice amended the Russian constitution so that he could theoretically remain in power until He is already the longest-serving Kremlin leader since Joseph Stalin.
Who Is Vladimir Putin?
In , Russian president Boris Yeltsin dismissed his prime minister and promoted former KGB officer Vladimir Putin in his place. In Decemb