Vladimir

Putin
The President of Russia
 Facts
Name: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Age: 68 years (born October 7, 1952)
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg
Party: United Russia
Studies: Law school and Master in Economics
Religion: Russian Orthodox
Martial Arts: Sampo, Judo
Early Life and Career
 Putin studied law and served 15 years as a
foreign intelligence officer for KGB, including
six years in Dresden, East Germany.
 He retired from the active KGB service in 1990.
 Soon after his resignation he became the adviser
to the first democratically elected mayor of St.
Petersburg, Sobchak, after returning to Russia.
 He had risen to the first deputy mayor after he
had won Sobchak's confidence in 1994.
 In 1996, he moved to Moscow where he joined
the presidential staff as deputy to Pavel Borodin,
the Kremlin’s chief administrator.
 Putin grew closer to high-ranking government
officials and moved to administrative positions.
Early Life and Career
 After moving quite sometimes, from
different positions, Putin ended up with
the president (at that time), Yeltsin, who
appointed him to be the prime minister
in 1999.
 Family

 Putin has a wife known as Lyudmila

Shkrebneva.
 He also has two daughters.
 Putin’s love for dogs
 The Russian President owns many dogs and likes petting them. The current dogs he owns include:

Pash Verni Yume and

a Buffy
 Titles

 Person of the year, 2007 Times magazine

 Person of the year, 2007 Expert magazine
 Vladimir Putin peak in Tian Shan mountains,
2011 Kyrgyzstan parliament
 Honoree doctorate, 2011 University of
Belgrade
 Russia’s economy
 Achievements:
 A rapid growth in economy
 Russia had become an energy superpower
 An efficient management of oil revenue
 Growth in industrial production
 A growth of incomes
 Improvement in the demographic situation
 Revival of physical training and sports.

 Failures:
 A commodities-based economy
 High dependence on food imports
 A growing gap between rich and poor
 People have not learnt how to invest in stock market
 High rate of inflation
 Rampant corruption
 Massive political apathy
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Boris Vladimir Vladimir
Medvede
Yeltsin Putin Putin
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