Vladimir Putin
Politician
1952 –
Who is Vladimir Putin?
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician who has been the President of Russia since 7 May 2012. Putin previously served as President from 2000 to 2008, and as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. Putin was also previously the Chairman of the United Russia political party.
For sixteen years Putin was an officer in the KGB, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, before he retired to enter politics in his native Saint Petersburg in 1991. He moved to Moscow in 1996 and joined President Boris Yeltsin's administration where he rose quickly, becoming Acting President on 31 December 1999 when Yeltsin resigned unexpectedly. Putin won the subsequent 2000 presidential election and was re-elected in 2004. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits, Putin was ineligible to run for a third consecutive presidential term in 2008. Dmitry Medvedev won the 2008 presidential election and appointed Putin as Prime Minister, beginning a period of so-called "tandemocracy". In September 2011, following a change in the law, Putin announced that he would seek a third, non-consecutive term as President in the 2012 presidential election, an announcement which led to large-scale protests in many Russian cities. He won the election in March 2012 and is serving an increased, six-year term.
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- Born
- Oct 7, 1952
Saint Petersburg - Also known as
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
- Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin
- Pres. Vladimir Putin
- Volodya
- Grey Cardinal
- VVP
- Vova
- Parents
- Spouses
- Lyudmila Putina
(1983/07/28 - 2013/06/06)
- Lyudmila Putina
- Children
- Religion
- Russian Orthodox Church
- Ethnicity
- Russian
- Nationality
- Russia
- Profession
- Education
- Saint Petersburg State University
( - 1975) - Saint Petersburg Mining Institute
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Employment
- Federal Security Service
(1998/07/25 - 1999/08) - Saint Petersburg State University
(1991/06 - 1994) - KGB
(1975 - 1991/08/20)
- Federal Security Service
- Lived in
- Saint Petersburg
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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