Vladimir Putin was born on 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, at that time located in the U.S.S.R., now St. Petersburg, Russia. He was the youngest of three children born to Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin and Maria Ivanovna Putina. His grandfather, Spiridon Putin, worked as a cook for both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin; his father served in the Soviet Navy as part of their submarine fleet during the early 1930s, then later transferred to a destruction battalion for NKVD during World War II where he was gravely injured in 1942.
According to Mr. Putin, I come from an ordinary family, and this is how I lived most of my life. I have always maintained my connection to the average, normal person.
Our family lived simply - cabbage soup, cutlets, pancakes, but on Sundays and holidays, my mom would cook delicious stuffed buns [pirozhki] with cabbage, meat, rice, and curd tarts [vatrushki].
As a result of the war, Putin's family moved to a communal apartment in a typical ST Petersburg dwelling house on Baskov Lane after the war. During 1960-68, he attended Primary School No. 193 in Leningrad. In 1970, he graduated from High School No. 281, a magnet school devoted to chemistry that was affiliated with a technology institute.
After graduating in 1975, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, where he remained a member until it ended. His thesis was on The Most Favored Nation Trading Principle in International Law. In the early 1980s, he met Anatoly Sobchak, an assistant professor who taught business law. He later co-authored the Russian constitution and corruption schemes persecuted in France. He married Lyudmila Shkrebneva, and the couple has two daughters, Mariya and Katerina.
During his 15 years with the KGB (Committee for State Security), he spent six years in Dresden, East Germany as a foreign intelligence officer. As a lieutenant colonel, he retired from active KGB service in 1990 and returned to Russia to protect Leningrad State University and oversee its external relations.
Afterward, he became an adviser to Sobchak, St. Petersburg's first democratically elected mayor. He gained Sobchak's trust and is known for his abilities.
A first deputy mayor in 1994, he moved to Moscow in 1996 and joined the presidential staff as deputy to Pavel Borodin, the Kremlin's chief administrator. He grew close to fellow Leningrader Anatoly Chubais and moved into administrative positions.
In July 1998, President Boris Yeltsin made Putin director of the Federal Security Service, then secretary of the influential Security Council. He was appointed prime minister in 1999.
He was virtually unknown to the public. Putin's approval ratings rose dramatically when he launched a well-organized military operation against Chechnya's secessionist rebels. His coolness was appreciated by the Russian public. In addition, he supported the Unity electoral bloc, which won the parliamentary election in December.
Yeltsin's surprise resignation in December 1999 left Putin as acting President, and he easily won the subsequent election with a majority of 53 percent. His plan upon entering office was to end corruption and build a strong regulated market economy. To reassert his control over the country, he divided Russia's 89 regions into seven districts, each led by a representative appointed by himself.
Furthermore, he revoked the right of regional governors to sit on the Federation Council and weakened the power of the "Oligarchs", which includes several media tycoons, by shutting down their media outlets and filing criminal cases against key figures.
As a result of rebel attacks in Moscow and guerilla attacks on Russian troops in Chechnya, he declared a military campaign in 2002, but casualties were still high.
In 2001, he strongly objected to U.S. President George Bush's decision to abandon the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. In 2002-2003, Putin joined German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder and French President Jacques Chirac in opposing U.S. and British efforts to overthrow Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government.
After a prolonged recession in the 1990s, Putin easily won reelection in March 2004 as the country's economy recovered. A constitutional provision forced Putin to step down in 2008, and he chose Dmitry Medvedev as his successor. In December 2007, parliamentary elections were won by Putin's party, United Russia.
Medvedev nominated Vladimir Putin as prime minister within hours after taking office on 7 May 2008, after he won the presidential election and became chairman of the United Russia Party.
During the United Russia Congress in Moscow on 24 September 2011, Medvedev officially proposed that Putin run for President in 2012. The offer was accepted by Putin, but he was elected to a third term as President of Russia on 4 March 2012. He resigned as United Russia chairman and handed control of the party to Medvedev on 7 May 2012. Ahead of Putin's inauguration as President, Medvedev was nominated as Prime Minister as one of his first acts.
A major part of his first year in office was devoted to stifling the protest movement. Opposition leaders were jailed and nongovernmental organizations that received foreign funding were labeled "foreign agents." After revealing the existence of several secret NSA programs, U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden sought refuge in Russia in June 2013, sparking tensions with the United States.
Snowden was permitted in Russia on condition that, as Putin said, he stop harming our American partners. Following an attack of chemical weapons outside Damascus in August 2013, the U.S. decided to intervene in the Syrian Civil War. Putin urged restraint in an editorial published in the New York Times, and the U.S. and Russians reached a deal to destroy Syria's chemical weapons supply.
In December 2013, Putin commemorated the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the post-Soviet Constitution and ordered the release of some 25,000 individuals from Russian prisons. He also pardoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was imprisoned for more than a decade as head of Yuko's oil conglomerate.
In 2018, he secured a stunning victory in the presidential elections by winning 76% of the vote. 7 May 2018 marked the commencement of his fourth presidential term until 2024. On the same day, he asked Dmitry Medvedev to form a new government.
He was present during the opening of the Crimean bridge on 15th May and signed decrees regarding the new Government 18 days later. On 25 May, he declared that he will not seek reelection in 2024. He officially opened the 21st FIFA World Cup on 14 June 2018, happening in Russia for the first time.
In response to Vladimir Putin's Address to the Federal Assembly on 15 January 2020, Dmitry Medvedev and his entire government resigned. Putin also suggested major constitutional amendments that could extend his political power after the presidency. According to the president, Medvedev should assume the newly created position of Deputy Chairman of the Security Council.
On the same day, Putin nominated Mikhail Mishustin as Prime Minister and the next day, he was unanimously approved by the State Duma. Mishustin presented his proposed cabinet to the President on January 21st, who quickly signed a decree authorizing its structure and appointing the Ministers. It was the first time that a Prime Minister had been accepted without any opposition votes.
On 24 February 2022, Putin announced a "special military operation" in Ukraine, launching a full-scale invasion of the country. In February 2022, Putin announced that his military would invade Ukraine after a year of tension and military buildup between the two countries. This invasion led to many calling Putin a war criminal and calling for his prosecution.
It has been one year since the war started and is still going on.
They say nothing could be further from the truth and that Moscow's forces attacked Ukraine without provocation. In the past, Putin has justified his invasion of Ukraine by accusing Western countries of threatening Russia.
Almost a year after ordering an invasion that sparked the biggest confrontation with the West since the Cold War, Putin accused the West of trying to destroy the country.
The prolonged war in Ukraine has taken a toll on Putin's health, although the Kremlin has refuted the allegations and said he is fit as a fiddle.
It was claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin was green-screened into a video on Reddit's top-performing post on Saturday afternoon. The post was later deleted and flagged as "misinformation" by moderators—but casual viewers could be forgiven for believing the juicy claim portrayed in the title: "Green screen detected!"
Putin has suffered a relapse in his health, according to reports. Russian telegram channel General SVR, which has previously claimed that Vladimir Putin is suffering from serious medical issues including cancer, reported that the 70-year-old Russian president will undergo a new treatment in early March.
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