UNIVERSITY: CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI

FACULTY: FSEDAP
SPECIALITY: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
YEAR OF STUDY: FIRST

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

Pruna Vlad Ionut, GR. 313

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin  (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and
former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012,
previously holding the position from 1999 until 2008. He was also the Prime
Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012.

Putin was born in Saint Petersburg and studied law at Leningrad University,
graduating in 1975. Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16
years, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, before resigning in 1991 to begin a
political career in Saint Petersburg. He later moved to Moscow in 1996 to join the
administration of President Boris Yeltsin, serving first as Director of the Federal
Security Service (FSB), the KGB's successor agency, before being appointed as
prime minister in August 1999. After the resignation of Yeltsin, Putin was elected
in 200 to succeed him.
During his first tenure as president, the Russian economy grew for eight straight
years, with GDP measured by purchasing power increasing by 72%. The growth
was a result of the 200s commodities boom, recovery from the post-communist
depression and financial crises, and prudent economic and fiscal policies. After
serving as prime minister under Dimitry Medvedev from 2008 to 2012, Putin
announced he would seek a third term as president and won the March 2012
election with 64% of the vote.  Falling oil prices coupled with international
sanctiones imposed at the beginning of 2014 after Russia’s anexation of
Crimeea and military intervention in Eastern Ukraine led to GDP shrinking by
3.7% in 2015, though the Russian economy rebounded in 2016 with 0.3% GDP
growth, and the recession officially ended. Putin gained 76% of the March 2018
election vote and was re-elected for a six-year term that will end in 2024.

Under Putin's leadership, Russia has experienced democratic backsliding. Experts

do not generally consider Russia to be a democracy, citing purges and jailing of
political opponents, curtailed press freedom, and the lack of free and fair
elections. Russia has scored poorly on Transparency International’s Corruptions
Perceptions Index the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy
Index and Freedom House’s Freedom in the World index (including a record low
20/100 rating in the 2017 Freedom in the World report, a rating not given since the
time of the Soviet Union).

Human rights organizations and activists have accused Putin of persecuting

political critics and activists as well as ordering them tortured or assassinated; he
has rejected accusations of human rights abuses.
Next, we will talk about his early life and political career

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia,
on October 7, 1952. He grew up with his family in a communal apartment,
attending the local grammar and high schools, where he developed an interest in
sports. After graduating from Leningrad State University with a law degree in
1975, Putin began his career in the KGB as an intelligence officer. Stationed
mainly in East Germany, he held that position until 1990, retiring with the rank of
lieutenant colonel.

Upon returning to Russia, Putin held an administrative position at the University of

Leningrad, and after the fall of communism in 1991 became an adviser to liberal
politician Anatoly Sobchak. When Sobchak was elected mayor of Leningrad later
that year, Putin became his head of external relations, and by 1994, Putin had
become Sobchak's first deputy mayor.

After Sobchak's defeat in 1996, Putin resigned his post and moved to Moscow.
There, in 1998, Putin was appointed deputy head of management under Boris
Yeltsin's presidential administration. In that position, he was in charge of the
Kremlin's relations with the regional governments.

Shortly afterward, Putin was appointed head of the Federal Security Service, an
arm of the former KGB, as well as head of Yeltsin's Security Council. In August
1999, Yeltsin dismissed his prime minister, Sergey Stapashin, along with his
cabinet, and promoted Putin in his place.

President of Russia:

In December 1999, Boris Yeltsin resigned as president of Russia and appointed

Putin acting president until official elections were held, and in March 2000, Putin
was elected to his first term with 53 percent of the vote. Promising both political
and economic reforms, Putin set about restructuring the government and launching
criminal investigations into the business dealings of high-profile Russian citizens.
He also continued Russia's military campaign in Chechnya.
In September 2001, in response to the terrorist attacks on the United States, Putin
announced Russia's support for the United States in its anti-terror campaign.
However, when the United States' "war on terror" shifted focus to the ousting of
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, Putin joined German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder
and French President Jacques Chirac in opposition of the plan.

In 2004, Putin was re-elected to the presidency, and in April of the following year
made a historic visit to Israel for talks with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon —
marking the first visit to Israel by any Kremlin leader.

Due to constitutional term limits, Putin was prevented from running for the
presidency in 2008. (That same year, presidential terms in Russia were extended
from four to six years.) However, when his protégé Dmitry Medvedev succeeded
him as president in March 2008, he immediately appointed Putin as Russia's prime
minister, allowing Putin to maintain a primary position of influence for the next
four years.

On March 4, 2012, Vladimir Putin was re-elected to his third term as president.
After widespread protests and allegations of electoral fraud, he was inaugurated on
May 7, 2012, and shortly after taking office appointed Medvedev as prime
minister. Once more at the helm, Putin has continued to make controversial
changes to Russia's domestic affairs and foreign policy.  

In December 2012, Putin signed into a law a ban on the U.S. adoption of Russian
children. According to Putin, the legislation—which took effect on January 1, 2013
— aimed to make it easier for Russians to adopt native orphans. However, the
adoption ban spurred international controversy, reportedly leaving nearly 50
Russian children — who were in the final phases of adoption with U.S. citizens at
the time that Putin signed the law — in legal limbo.

Putin further strained relations with the United States the following year when he
granted asylum to Edward Snowden, who is wanted by the United States for
leaking classified information from the National Security Agency. In response to
Putin's actions, U.S. President Barack Obama canceled a planned meeting with
Putin that August.  
Around this time, Putin also upset many people with his new anti-gay laws. He
made it illegal for gay couples to adopt in Russia and placed a ban on
propagandizing "nontraditional" sexual relationships to minors. The legislation led
to widespread international protest.

In conlcussion, we don’t know who will succeed Vladimir Putin at the

presidential chair, and also we don’t know when this will happened.

But, after you read this little biography and history of Vladimir Vladimirovich
Putin, you cand have an idea about who was and who is the actual President
of the Russia.

Vladimir Putin is one of the strongest man in the World and will be hard for
someone to take the presidential chair.

Also, in Russia, Vladimir Putin was elected in 2018 with 75.9% and the next
presidential election will be in 2024 and Putin cant be elected again because
of the laws in Russia.
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Conclusions.................................................................................. pag. 5

Bibliography.................................................................................. pag. 6