Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian statesman and politician, acting President of the Russian Federation and Supreme Commander of the Russian Armed forces.
He was born on October 1, 1952, in Leningrad, Russia in ordinary family of workers. He was the only child in a family. They were not rich and lived in a communal apartment with other people.
As Putin had got a law degree in 1975, he joined the KGB, the security force of the former Soviet Union. Then he been working in the KGB for 15 years, not only in Russia, but also in Germany. In 1983 he got married Lyudmila Shkrebneva and got two daughters. However, he is divorced today.
For the first time he became a president of Russian Federation in 2000, then he left the position and became a prime minister in 2008. So, he had been re-elected again in 2012.
Many people believe that the President conducts a very competent foreign policy, trying to reduce some tension between Russia and other countries that arises due to various reasons, but the President’s domestic policy is very weak. Unfortunately, the number of rich people and oligarchs as well as the poor is growing, and the economy is falling. However, the President as a head of Government periodically offers various solutions to help the population: hotlines, social packages, demographic programs, etc.
Владимир Владимирович Путин — российский государственный и политический деятель, исполняющий обязанности президента Российской Федерации, Верховный Главнокомандующий Вооруженными Силами Российской Федерации.
Он родился 1 октября 1952 года в Ленинграде в обычной семье рабочих. Он был единственным ребенком в семье. Они не были богаты и жили в коммунальной квартире с другими людьми.
Когда Путин получил юридическое образование в 1975 году, он вступил в ряды КГБ, силы безопасности бывшего Советского Союза. Затем он проработал в КГБ 15 лет не только в России, но и в Германии. В 1983 году женился на Людмиле Шкребневой, обзавелся двумя дочерями. Однако на сегодняшний день он в разводе.
Впервые он занял пост президента Российской Федерации в 2000 году, затем покинул эту должность и стал премьер-министром в 2008 году и был переизбран вновь в 2012.
Многие считают, что президент ведет очень грамотную внешнюю политику, пытаясь снизить некоторую напряженность между Россией и другими странами, которая возникает в силу разных причин, но внутренняя политика Президента очень слаба. К сожалению, число богатых людей и олигархов, как и бедных растет, а экономика падает. Однако Президент как глава правительства периодически предлагает различные решения для оказания помощи населению: горячие линии, социальные пакеты, демографические программы и т. д.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin — The President of Russia
Vladimir Putin was born in Leningrad on October 7, 1952.
In 1975, he graduated with a degree in law from Leningrad State University. He later earned a Ph.D. degree in economics.
After graduation, Mr. Putin was assigned to work in the KGB. From 1985 to 1990, he worked in East Germany.
In 1990, he became assistant to the rector of Leningrad State University responsible for international affairs.
His next position was an advisor to the chairman of the Leningrad City Council.
In June 1991, he became chairman of the St. Petersburg City Council’s International Relations Committee and, starting with 1994, he combined this post with the position of First Deputy Chairman of the St. Petersburg City Government (First Deputy Mayor).
In August 1996, he was appointed deputy head of the President’s Administrative Directorate (Property Management Directorate).
In March 1997, he became deputy head of the Executive Office of the President (Presidential Administration) and head of the Central Supervision and Inspections Directorate.
In May 1998, he was promoted to first deputy head of the Presidential Administration.
In July 1998, he was appointed director of the Federal Security Service and, as of March 1999, he combined this position with that of Secretary of the Security Council.
In August 1999, he was appointed Prime Minister.
On December 31, 1999, he became acting President.
On March 26, 2000, he was elected President of Russia and was inaugurated as president on May 7, 2000.
On March 14, 2004, he was elected President of Russia for the second term.
Speaks German and English.
Married to Lyudmila Putina. They have two daughters: Maria (1985), Katerina(1986).
Владимир Владимирович Путин — Президент России
Владимир Путин родился в Ленинграде 7 октября 1952 года.
В 1975 году он окончил юридический факультет Ленинградского Государственного университета. Позднее, он получил диплом в области экономики.
После окончания вуза, его назначили на работу в КГБ. С 1985г. по 1990г. он работал в Восточной Германии.
В 1990 году он стал помощником ректора Ленинградского Государственного университета в отделе международных отношений.
Затем Путин стал советником главы Ленинградского Городского Совета.
В июне 1991 года он стал председателем Комитета Международных Отношений Санкт-Петербургского Городского Совета. Начиная с 1994 года, он совмещал этот пост с должностью первого заместителя председателя Санкт-Петербургского Городского Совета (Первым заместителем мэра).
В августе 1996 года его назначили заместителем главы Президентской Администрации.
В марте 1997 года он стал заместителем главы Управления делами Президента и главой Управления по наблюдению и контролю.
В мае 1998 года его выдвинули на пост первого заместителя главы Президентской Администрации.
В июне 1998 года Путин был назначен главой Федеральной Службы Безопасности, а с марта 1999 он работал параллельно на должности Секретаря Совета Безопасности.
В августе 1999 года он был назначен па воет Премьер Министра.
31 декабря 1999 года Путин стал исполняющим обязанности Президента.
26 марта 2000 года он был избран Президентом России и вступил в должность 7 мая.
14 марта 2004 года его выбрали I [резидентом на второй срок.
Путин знает немецкий и английский языки.
Жену Путина зовут Людмила Путина. У них есть две дочери — Мария (1985 г. рождения) и Екатерина (1986 г. рождения).
Владимир Путин- президент Российской Федерации. Он известен как глава одной из самых могущественных держав. Он родился в Ленинграде, его родители были простыми тружениками. Жила семья по-самому обыкновеннному. Повзрослев, Владимир поступил на службу советскому союзу. Через некоторое время он пошел работать в университет. в 1999 году Путин возглавляет нашу страну. Владимир известен по миру хорошей внешней политикой и помощью другим государствам. Он- глава нашего народа
Vladimir Putin is president of the Russian Federation. He is known as the head of one of the most powerful powers. He was born in Leningrad, his parents were simple toilers. The family lived in the most ordinary way. After growing up, Vladimir entered the service of the Soviet Union. After a while he went to work in the university. in 1999, Putin heads our country. Vladimir is known throughout the world for good foreign policy and assistance to other states. He is the head of our people
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Quick Facts
Also Known As: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Age: 70 Years, 70 Year Old Males
Family:
Spouse/Ex-: Lyudmila Putina (1983–2014)
father: Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin
mother: Maria Ivanovna Shelomova
siblings: Albert Putin, Viktor Putin
children: Mariya Putina, Yekaterina Putina
Born Country: Russia
Quotes By Vladimir Putin
Presidents
political ideology: Political party — Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1975–1991), Our Home-Russia (1995–1999), Unity (1999–2001), Independent (1991–1995; 2001–2008), United Russia (2008–present)
Notable Alumni: Saint Petersburg Mining Institute
City: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Founder/Co-Founder: United Aircraft Corporation, State Council
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education: Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg Mining Institute
awards: 2007 — Time’s Person of the Year
2011 — Confucius Peace Prize
Childhood & Early Life
Vladimir Putin was born to Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin and Maria Ivanovna Putina on 7th October, 1952, in Saint Petersberg, Soviet Union.
During 1960-68, he attended the Primary School No. 193 located at Baskov Lane. He then joined the High School No. 281, and even took interest in sports like sambo (a martial art form) and judo.
In 1970, he enrolled at the Leningrad State University Law Department, and as a student he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. During the same time, he encountered the Russian politician Anatoly Sobchak.
He worked on his thesis entitled The Most Favored Nation Trading in International Law, and in 1975, he graduated from the university.
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Career
Soon after graduating from law school, Vladimir Putin entered the government-run intelligence agency KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti). At the beginning of 1980s, he was trained at the KGB School No. 1, Moscow.
He worked for the KGB agency’s Directorate Secretariat and then was employed at the Counterintelligence Division. He was again sent for training by KGB to Andropov Red Banner Institute to prepare him for his trip to Germany.
During the period 1985-90, he operated in the Dresden city of East Germany as an undercover agent. Vladimir’s hard work earned him the position of lieutenant colonel and eventually he became the senior assistant to the head of the department in the intelligence office.
In 1990, he traveled back to Leningrad and was appointed to the Leningrad State University as the rector, in which capacity he handled international relations.
He chaired the Committee for International Relations at St. Petersburg City Hall in 1991. A few years later, he joined the St. Petersburg City Government as the Deputy Chairman. Soon after joining the City Hall, he resigned from his post at the KGB.
He shifted to Moscow in the year 1996, along with his family, and there he was appointed to the Presidential Property Management Directorate as the Deputy Chief. The following year, he joined the Presidential Executive Office as the Deputy Chief of Staff and also Chief of Main Control Directorate.
He became the First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office in 1998, and the same year, he joined office as the Director of the Federal Security Service. The following year, he became the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
He was chosen as the Prime Minister of Russia by the then President of Russia Boris Yeltsin in 1999. By the end of that year, the then President stepped down, nominating Vladimir Putin as his successor for the post.
In March 2000, he was elected as the President of Russia and also served a second term after being re-elected to the office in 2004.
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As per Russian constitution, he was ineligible to run for presidency for the third consecutive term. Hence, in 2008, Dmitry Medvedev ran for the office of the President and won the election. Medvedev appointed Vladimir Putin as the Prime Minister of Russia.
In 2011, the presidential term was extended from four years to six years. In 2012, Putin once again contested the presidential election and won by polling 64% of vote.
In 2018, he was re-elected for the fourth term as the President. He got 76% of votes and will be in office till 2024.
Major Works
The 2010 Russian Wildfire had a huge aftermath. Crops were destroyed and thousands died due to the smog that was created by the fire. The President took special care to help people overcome this situation and he himself took charge of the reconstruction of homes and provided compensation to the victims.
In 2014, Vladimir Putin ordered Russian army into Ukrainian territory and annexed Crimea after a disputed referendum in which Crimeans voted to join the Russian Federation. As a result of this, many countries slapped economic sanctions against Russia.
In 2015, on request of the Syrian government, Vladimir Putin authorized the Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War to help Syrian government in their fight against rebel and jihadist groups.
Putin has been accused by America of meddling in the 2016 American presidential elections. He has been accused of personally ordering a campaign to denigrate Hillary Clinton and to harm her electoral chances. But Putin has denied any interference in the American presidential election.
Awards & Achievements
He received the Bronze Medal for Faithful Service to the National People’s Army issued by the German Democratic Republic in the year 1989.
In 2006, he was felicitated with the Grand-Croix (Grand Cross) by the President of France, Jacques Chirac. The following year, he was named Person of the Year by Time magazine.
Vladimir Putin was the recipient of the King Abdul Aziz Award in 2007 by Saudi King Abdullah. The same year, he was awarded with the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Award by the president of the UAE.
In 2011, he was awarded with an honorary doctorate by the University of Belgrade.
Personal Life & Legacy
On 28th July 1983, Vladimir Putin married Lyudmila Shkrebneva after a courtship of about three years. The couple was blessed with two daughters, Maria and Yekaterina.
Over the years, Vladimir Putin has been romantically linked to several women, but these are regarded as rumors and Putin has denied such allegations. Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila Shkrebneva announced their separation in 2013 and within a year, their divorce was finalized.
A street in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, has been named after him as Vladimir Putin Avenue. A peak in Tian Shan Mountains has also been named after this politician as Vladimir Putin Peak.
Vladimir Putin. Biography. History of the Russian President.
Vladimir Putin Biography. History from his birth till becoming the President of Russia.
Vladimir Putin’s early life and young childhood.
Vladimir Putin was born on the 7th of October 1952 in Leningrad(Saint-Petersburg).
Vladimir Putin (young) in his childhood. |
«I have come from an ordinary Russian family and this is the way I live for a very long time, nearly the whole my life. I lived as an average, absolutely normal person and I have always maintained that connection.»
Vladimir Putin Parents.
Maria Ivanovna Shelomova. Mother of Vladimir Putin.
Maria Ivanovna Shelomova — mother of Vladimir Putin was a sympathetic, kind and very friendly woman.
Maria Ivanovna Shelomova with young Vladimir Putin. |
«We lived simply — cabbage soup, cutlets, pancakes, only on Sundays and holidays my Mother used to bake very tasty stuffed buns with cabbage or meat with rice. I also loved very much her curd tarts. It was a real masterpiece.»
It’s a pity that his Mum didn’t approve his passion for Judo.
Every time I went to a practice session, she would grumble, «He’s off to his fights again.»
Things changed after the Judo coach of Vladimir Putin visited his home and told his parents about the achievements of Vladimir in sports; This fact changed his mother attitude towards Judo.
Father of Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir Putin was named in honor of his father, whose name was also Vladimir. Putin’s father participated in the war. He worked as a security guard and later as a foreman at the carriage works.
Father of Vladimir Putin. |
«My father was born in Saint Petersburg in 1911. Soon World War I began and the life in St. Petersburg became extremely hard. There was no food. Citizens were starving. This made my family move to Pominovo — a small village situated in the Tver Region, the homeland of my grandparents. In Pominovo Vladimir Putin’s father met Maria Shelomova, they fell in Love and soon (at the age of 17) married.»
Vladimir Putin in childhood with his Mother Maria Shelomova. |
After the war, the Putin family moved into a small room in St. Petersburg, situated on Baskov Lane.
«It was a building with a well-like yard. Fifth floor. No elevator. Before the World War II, my parents occupied half of the house in Peterhof and were very proud of the living standards they had achieved then. It wasn’t really much, but it seemed like an ultimate dream to them.»
Vladimir Putin childhood. School years.
Vladimir Putin spent his childhood attending Primary School № 193 in Leningrad (1960 — 1968). After finishing the 8th grade, he moved to High School № 281 and completed his studies there in 1970.
Young Vladimir Putin. School years. |
«I was always late for my first class, so even in winter I didn’t have time to dress properly.»
Vera Gurevich, the first teacher of Vladimir Putin. |
Vladimir Putin recalls that he was a troublemaker, not a Pioneer. His first teacher — Vera Gurevich, thought that in the fifth grade he still hadn’t found himself yet. On the other hand she could feel the potential, the energy and the strong character in him. She saw that he had a talent in languages, learning a foreign language was very easy. He got a good memory and agile mind. She liked the boy and gave him more attention in order to distract him from the boys on the streets.
In elementary grades, Vladimir was not much interested in studying. His teacher Vera Gurevich knew that he could study better and get only excellent marks. She met with his father and asked him to influence the son, though it didn’t help much. Vladimir Putin himself changed his mind and understood the price of knowledge. It happened to him when he was in the 6th grade.
In the 6th grade, Vladimir decided to achieve something extraordinary in his life and began to study well, getting only good marks. He joined the Young Pioneers organization and became the head of a Pioneer detachment in his class.
It became clear that street smarts were not enough, so I began doing sports. But even that was not enough for maintaining my status, so to speak, for very long. I realized that I also needed to study well.»
Vladimir Putin. Higher Education.
Leningrad State University and KGB school.
In 1970, Vladimir Putin entered the law department of Leningrad State University and graduated in 1975. Later he studied at KGB school № 1 in Moscow.
Vladimir Putin. Student of Leningrad State University. |
Even before I finished high school, I wanted to work in intelligence. Granted, soon after, I decided I wanted to be a sailor, but then I wanted to do intelligence again. In the very beginning, I wanted to be a pilot.
All his life Vladimir Putin dreamed of working in intelligence. He went to a public reception office of the KGB Directorate, where he was told that he needed either to serve in the army or complete his education in college, studying Law.
And from that moment, I began preparing myself to enter the law department at Leningrad State University.
In 1970, Vladimir Putin was admitted to law department at Leningrad State University.
We had a class of 100 people, and only 10 of them entered immediately after high school, the rest had already completed military service. So for us, the high-school graduates, only one out of 40 was admitted. I got four out of five for the essay, but top marks for everything else, so I passed.
Vladimir Putin during his study at Leningrad State University. |
«When I began studying at the university, new goals and new values emerged. I mainly focused on studies, and began seeing sports as secondary. But, of course, I trained on a regular basis and participated in nation-wide competitions, almost out of habit.»
After graduating from Leningrad State University, Putin was assigned to work in the state security agencies. He was first appointed to the Directorate secretariat, then the counterintelligence division, where he worked for about five months. Half a year later, he was sent to operations personnel retraining courses.
«My perception of the KGB was based on the idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.»
Vladimir Putin spent another six months working in the counterintelligence division. That was when he drew attention from foreign intelligence officers. Then Vladimir returned again to Moscow to study at the Andropov Red Banner Institute, where he was trained for his trip to Germany.
Vladimir Putin during his study at KGB school № 1. |
«Fairly quickly, I left for special training in Moscow, where I spent a year. Then I returned again to Leningrad, worked there in the First Main Directorate – the intelligence service. That directorate had branches in major cities of the Soviet Union, including Leningrad. I worked there for about four and a half years.»
Wife of Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir Putin got acquainted with his future wife Lyudmila Shkrebneva through a mutual friend. Lyudmila worked as a flight attendant on domestic airline and had come to Leningrad for a day off with her friend.
«I was already working in the First Main Directorate in St Petersburg, when a friend of mine called and invited me to the Arkady Raikin theatre. He said he already had the tickets, and mentioned there would be two young ladies joining us. So we went to the performance and the young ladies did join us. The next day, we went to the theatre again, but it was now my turn to buy the tickets. And the same thing happened on the third day. I then began dating one of the girls. I became friends with Lyudmila, my future wife.»
Vladimir Putin wedding. With his wife Lyudmila. |
Lyudmila recalls that there was something about Vladimir that attracted her. After 3-4 months she became sure that it was the sort of man she needed. They got married on the 28th of July 1983.
Vladimir Putin daughters.
Before the departure for Germany in 1985, Vladimir and Lyudmila welcomed their first daughter, Maria. The second daughter, Katerina, was born in 1986, in Dresden. Both girls were named in honor of their grandmothers, Maria Putina and Yekaterina Shkrebneva.
Vladimir Putin daughters. Maria Putina and Yekaterina Putina. |
Vladimir Putin in Germany. Dresden.
During 1985-1990, Vladimir Putin worked at the local intelligence office in Dresden, East Germany. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and began to work at the position of senior assistant to the head of the department. In 1989, he was awarded the bronze medal «For Faithful Service to the National People’s Army.
«My work was going well. It was a normal thing to be promoted just once while working abroad. I was promoted twice.»
Vladimir Putin during his work in Dresden, Germany. |
Vladimir Putin is back to Leningrad.
After returning back from Dresden to Leningrad in 1990, Vladimir Putin became assistant to the rector of Leningrad State University in charge of international relations. In 1996, he, together with his family moved to Moscow, where his political career began.
Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila Putina. |
After returning to Leningrad from Dresden in 1990, Vladimir Putin found new job as assistant to the rector of Leningrad State University, in which position he was responsible for international relations.
«I was happy to find work at Leningrad State University. I took the job hoping at the same time to write my Ph.D. thesis and, perhaps, stay on and work there afterwards. That was how I ended up, in 1990, becoming assistant to the rector in charge of international relations.»
Vladimir Putin. |
Soon he also became an adviser to the chairman of the Leningrad City Council.
Starting in June 1991, Putin began work as Chairman of the Committee for International Relations at the St Petersburg City Hall, and from 1994, concurrently held the position of Deputy Chairman of the Saint Petersburg City Government.
After starting work at the City Hall, Putin sent in his resignation from the KGB.
Vladimir Putin. Russian Prime Minister.
In 1996, Vladimir Putin moved with his family to Moscow, where he was offered the post of Deputy Chief of the Presidential Property Management Directorate.
«I would not say that I did not like Moscow, but simply that I liked St Petersburg more. But Moscow was very obviously a European city.»
His career rise was rapid. In March 1997, he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office and Chief of Main Control Directorate. Busy with work as he was, he still found time to defend his doctoral thesis on economics at the St Petersburg State Mining Institute. In May 1998, Putin was made First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office, and in July 1998, he was appointed Director of the Federal Security Service. From March 1999, he also held the position of Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
In August 1999, Putin was appointed Prime Minister of the Russian Government. The post was offered to him by then President Boris Yeltsin.
«Boris Yeltsin invited me to come and see him and said that he wanted to offer me the prime minister’s job. Incidentally, he never used the word ‘successor’ in his conversation with me then, but spoke of becoming ‘prime minister with prospects’, and said that if all went well, he thought this could be possible.»
Vladimir Putin at the Russian Government House. |
Vladimir Putin described his time in the prime minister’s office as an honor and an interesting experience.
«I thought then, if I can get through a year that will already be a good start. If I can do something to help save Russia from falling apart then this would be something to be proud of.»
Vladimir Putin. Acting President of the Russian Federation.
Shortly before the New Year of 2000 rolled in, President of Russia Boris Yeltsin proposed that Vladimir Putin become Acting President.
«Two or three weeks before New Year, Boris Yeltsin called me to his office and said that he had decided to step down. This meant I would have to become Acting President.»
Putin described it as not an easy decision to make, given that it is «a rather heavy load to bear».
Vladimir Putin. Acting President of Russian Federation. |
«I had my own thoughts, my own reasoning, but at the same time, there was another logic I had to consider too. Fate was offering me the chance to work for the country at the very highest level and it would have been foolish to say, no, I’m going to go and sell sunflower seeds instead, or go into private legal practice. I could do all those other things later after all, and so I decided that this had to come first, and everything else later.»
Vladimir Putin. President of Russia.
Vladimir Putin was elected President of Russia on March 26, 2000, and was re-elected to a second term on March 14, 2004. On May 8, 2008, he was appointed Prime Minister by presidential executive order.
Vladimir Putin. President of Russia. |
Vladimir Putin was elected President of Russia on March 26, 2000. He was officially inaugurated on May 7, 2000.
«I consider it to be my sacred duty to unify the people of Russia, to rally citizens around clear aims and tasks, and to remember every day and every minute that we have one Motherland, one people and one future.»
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the inauguration ceremony. |
Biography of Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a President of the Russian Federation (2000-2008, 2012 — present), formerly was a Director of the Russian Federal Security Service (1998-1999).
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a President of the Russian Federation
Childhood and Family
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born on October 7, 1952, in Leningrad. Putin recalled, «I’m from the commoners, and I’ve been living this life for a very long time, practically my whole adult life. I lived as an ordinary person, and I always have this bond».
Parents of Vladimir Putin
Putins lived in a multifamily unit apartment with substandard conditions in Baskov Lane. Vladimir Putin’s father is Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin. From 1933 to 1934 he served in the submarine fleet. In June 1941 he was drafted to the war front. Vladimir Spiridonovich was seriously injured in the leg while defending the Nevsky Pyatachok. After the war, he worked as a foreman at the Yegorov plant.
Mother is Maria Ivanovna Shelomova survived the blockade, then she also worked at the plant.
Vladimir Putin with his mother
Vladimir Putin’s grandfather was a cook, and his dishes were served at the table of the highest state and consignment officials including Stalin and Lenin.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is the third son in the family. Two of his older brothers died as a child: Victor died before the war, and Albert died during the blockade.
After Vladimir Vladimirovich became a president, he shared that in his childhood he liked to watch Soviet tapes about secret service agents and dreamed of working in government departments: «Even before I finished school, I had a desire to work in intelligence service. But soon I wanted to become a sailor. But then again as an agent. And at the very beginning, I really wanted to be a pilot».
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in his youth
Until 1965, Vladimir Putin studied at the eight-year school. Then he graduated from the secondary special school with a chemical bias. Then he began to study at a law faculty of the Leningrad State University of Zhdanov (now St. Petersburg State University). In his student years, he joined the CPSU. As a student, Vladimir Vladimirovich met Anatoly Sobchak, who then held the position of assistant professor at Leningrad State University.
Career in KGB
In 1975, Vladimir Putin was sent to serve on the State Security Committee after receiving the diploma. In the same year, he was promoted to the second lieutenant of justice in the system of territorial bodies of the USSR KGB, having completed training courses for the operational staff.
Vladimir Putin at the beginning of his career path
In 1977, Vladimir Putin served in the counterintelligence department of the investigative department of the KGB of the Leningrad region. In 1979, after completing retraining courses in Moscow, he returned to his hometown.
Vladimir Putin and his ex-wife Lyudmila
In 1984, Mr. Putin was seconded to study at the Institute of the KGB of the USSR in the specialty of «Foreign Intelligence» in the rank of Major of Justice. There, Vladimir Vladimirovich continued his study of the German language and was trained to serve in the GDR.
Putin in GDR
From 1985 to 1990, Putin worked in the GDR. He served in Dresden under cover of the post of director of the Dresden House of Friendship of the USSR-GDR. On the length of service, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and post to senior assistant to the department chief.
In 1989, Vladimir Vladimirovich was awarded a bronze medal «For Merits to the National People’s Army of the GDR».
After the foreign mission was over, Vladimir Putin continued his service in the Leningrad KGB administration, refusing to go to the central intelligence apparatus of the KGB of the USSR in Moscow.
Administration of St. Petersburg
The next stage in the Vladimir Putin’s life of was a job at the Leningrad State University of Zhdanov, where he served as an assistant to the rector for international affairs.
«I gladly went under the roof of the Leningrad State University hoping to write a Ph.D. thesis, process the ins and outs of all this, and maybe stay to work at Leningrad State University. So, on the 90th I became an assistant to the university rector for international relations», he recalled.
Vladimir Putin and Anatoly Sobchak
Putin was recommended to Anatoly Sobchak as a good worker, and in 1990 the future president of the country became a mayoral advisor in St. Petersburg. With the transition to a new job, Putin resigned from the KGB Service.
In the new position, Putin was entrusted with the post of chairman of the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg administration. In 1994 Vladimir Vladimirovich was appointed first deputy prime minister of St. Petersburg with the retention of the previous post. A year later he rose at the helm of the regional department of the NDR party («Our House is Russia»).
In 1992, a group of deputies of the Lensoviet, headed by Yuri Gladkov and Maria Salie, put forward charges against Putin in the scheme of supplying Petersburg with foodstuffs in exchange for raw materials. Putin claimed that the Salie Commission did not actually conduct any investigation, and there was no one to prosecute and no reason to prosecute. The scandal was kindled to make Sobchak fire Putin.
Moscow career
For three years, Putin has risen from the Deputy manager of the President to the Secretary of the Security Council. In 1996, after the failure of Sobchak in the election of the governor, Vladimir Vladimirovich was invited to Moscow to the post of deputy manager of the President of the Russian Federation. Putin oversaw the legal management and management of Russia’s foreign ownership.
«I cannot say that I did not like Moscow. I just loved Petersburg more. But Moscow quite obviously is a European city», — these were comments on Putin’s appointment to a new position.
In the spring of 1997, Vladimir Putin was appointed deputy head of the presidential administration, replacing Alexei Kudrin.
Vladimir Putin have to visit different parts of the world according to his official duties
In the summer of 1998, he headed the FSB of Russia, and in autumn successfully reorganized its structure. Six months later, Vladimir Putin assumed the post of Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation with the retention of his position in the FSB.
In the spring of 1999, President Boris Yeltsin appointed Vladimir Putin as Russia’s prime minister.
Vladimir Putin became Boris Yeltsin’s successor
Putin recalled this: «Boris Nikolayevich invited me to his place and said that he has an idea to offer me the post of Prime Minister. <…> By the way, he did not utter the words «successor» in a conversation with me. Yeltsin talked about a «Prime Minister with a perspective» that if everything goes well, he would consider this possible».
Dissertation
In 1997, Vladimir Putin defended his Ph.D. thesis in Economics in the Mining Institute of St. Petersburg. The title of the work is «Strategic planning of the reproduction of the region’s mineral and raw materials base in the conditions of the formation of market relations (St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region).
Vladimir Putin as a Candidate of Economic Sciences
Presidency
On December 31, 1999, Yeltsin resigned, and Putin became the acting president of Russia: he was given symbols of power, including a «nuclear suitcase». According to Vladimir Vladimirovich, it was not an easy decision for him.
On the one hand, there are internal arguments. But there is another logic. The fate is such that you can work at the highest level in the country and for the country. And it`s stupid to say: no, I will sell seeds, or not, I will take up the private law practice. Well, then you can do it, after all. First, work here, then there.
In March 2000, Vladimir Putin was elected as a president and took up his post on May 7. On March 14, 2004, he was re-elected for a second term. On May 7, 2008, he transferred power to the former head of the presidential administration, Dmitry Medvedev.
Many Russians want to see Vladimir Putin as a President
On May 8, 2008, Vladimir Putin was appointed to the post of Prime Minister of Russia, on May 12, he announced the cabinet of the new government. In November 2010, Putin was ranked 4th in the list of the world’s most influential people according to Forbes magazine.
Vladimir Putin defends the Russia’s interests
In the presidential election on March 4, 2012, Putin won in the first round, gaining 63.6% of the vote and on May 7 he took up his post as head of state for the third time.
The third presidential term of Vladimir Putin was marked by complex historical events. Russia’s position on the Ukrainian crisis and the accession of the Crimea to the Russian Federation, the victorious performance of Russian athletes at the Olympics and Paralympics in Sochi, a successful military operation in Syria — all this affect the rating of the country’s first person. The poll data, published in October 2015 by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center, show that 89.9% of Russians approve of Vladimir Putin’s actions.
Annual Vladimir Putin «Direct Line 2017», full version [english]
Vladimir Putin won a presidential elections in March 2018 with 76% votes, despite of opposition’s protests. According to the main Russian law, Constitution, he can’t run for president in 2024 elections. But in March 2020 he announced a amendment in Constitution to erase a words, that allowed his to became a president for 4 times. According to Russian Constitution, a person can’t be a president more than two times in a row, not more than two times at all.
After one week a Parliament deputee and the first woman in the space Valentina Tereshkova suggested to «erase» previous Putin’s presidential terms to allow him to became a president in 2024 and in 2030. Putin said, that he doesn’t mind, if only the Constitutional Court won’t be against. The Constitutional Court didn’t mind. Russians called Putin’s trick «a zeroing».
Personal life of Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich met his future wife Lyudmila in 1980. On July 28, 1983, they were married. Two years before his departure to Germany, the first daughter Maria was born, and a year later, in the hospital of Dresden, the second daughter Catherine was born. The privacy of Putin’s daughters is guarded very carefully.
Vladimir Putin divorced his wife Lyudmila in 2013
Maria graduated from the Faculty of Biology of St. Petersburg State University (she studied under an individual program) and graduated from the Medical Faculty of Moscow State University. Yorrit JoostaFaassen was called in the media as Maria’s husband. He is a businessman from the Netherlands. According to unofficial data, on August 15, 2012, Maria gave birth to her son.
Maria, the eldest daughter of Vladimir Putin
Katerina from an early age showed interest in Asia, so she graduated from the Department of History of the Far Eastern countries at the Oriental Faculty of St. Petersburg State University (specialty «History of Japan»). She studied like her sister according to an individual plan. Her formal classmates declared that they had never seen a girl in the university. Ekaterina Putin leads the National Intellectual Development Foundation and married to businessman Kirill Shamalov who is deputy chairman of the board of the Sibur oil holding.
Ekaterina Putina
On June 6, 2013, Vladimir and Lyudmila Putina announced the dissolution of the marriage by mutual decision in an interview with the TV channel «Russia-24». In the media, this information was discussed for a long time. The reasons for the divorce were allegedly existing relations between Vladimir Vladimirovich and Alina Kabaeva.
Vladimir Putin and Alina Kabaeva
Hobbies of Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin is fond of sports. He goes skiing, has the title of Leningrad champion in judo and champion of the Trud voluntary sports society.
In 1999, he co-authored with Alexei Levitsky and Vasily Shestakov and released the book «Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin». In 2013, he became the owner of the honorable ninth dan in Korean martial art Taekwondo. In 2011, Vladimir Vladimirovich put on skates and started playing hockey. He likes fishing.
Putin on Harley-Davidson
With pleasure, he listens to the songs of Nikolai Rastorguev and the «Lube» band, Grigory Leps, gypsy music.
He speaks fluently in German and English.
Vladimir Putin wears a watch only on his right hand. Why? «So the crown does not rub my hand, that’s the whole secret»,- The president revealed the secret that many were interested in.
The president has many pets, almost all are gifts from influential politicians. Vladimir Vladimirovich has the Bulgarian Shepherd Dog Buffy (the gift of Bulgaria’s premier Boyko Borisov), Akita Inu Yume (the gift of the governor of Akita Prefecture Norihisy Satake), and the goat named Skazka (Yuri Luzhkov gift) and the dwarfish Horse Vadik (a gift of Mintimer Shaimiev, the President of Tatarstan). Previously, the president’s favorite dog was a black Labrador named Connie, who died in 2014.
Vladimir Putin with pets
Vladimir Putin Now. War in Ukraine
In the end of 2021 the conflict between Russia and Ukraine was escalated again. Russian military pulled numerous troops (~190 thousand) to Ukrainian border.
In December Russian MFA sent an „ultimatum„ to the USA and NATO with demands of warranty of Ukrainian non-entry to NATO and roll back to 1997 borders. Also, Putin required the denial to accept any of ex-USSR countries to NATO.
On February 22, Vladimir Putin ratified the agreement on the recognition of the DNR and LNR. He made an hour long speech and said, that Ukraine was created by Vladimir Lenin and Donbass’ territory was „forced into„ its borders. Also, Putin thinks, that Kyiv authorities are „Russophobic„ and „neo-Nazis„. „Ukraine wants to return Crimea with force„, he said.
Putin War Speech (24 February), eng subs
On February 24, early morning, Putin made a declaration of invasion of Ukraine. He named it „an act of self-defence„ and urged Ukrainian troops to lay their weapon down.
I want to emphasise again that all responsibility for the possible bloodshed will lie fully and wholly with the ruling Ukrainian regime.
Also, Putin warned everyone „who tries to stand in our way„, probably dropped a hint to nuclear weapon:
They must know that Russia will respond immediately, and the consequences will be such as you have never seen in your entire history.
In 4 AM approximately Russian army began to bomb Ukrainian cities.