2nd and 4th President of Russia (2000–2008, 2012–present), 7th and 11th Prime Minister of Russia (1999–2000, 2008–2012), Director of the Federal Security Service (1998–1999) and Deputy Mayor of Saint Petersburg (1994–1996)
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Vladimir Putin Владимир Путин
President of Russia Incumbent
Assumed office
7 May 2012
Assumed office
7 May 2012
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
Mikhail Mishustin
Andrey Belousov (acting)
Mikhail Mishustin
Mikhail Mishustin
Andrey Belousov (acting)
Mikhail Mishustin
Vladimir Putin Владимир Путин
President of Russia Incumbent
Assumed office
7 May 2012
Assumed office
7 May 2012
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
Mikhail Mishustin
Andrey Belousov (acting)
Mikhail Mishustin
Mikhail Mishustin
Andrey Belousov (acting)
Mikhail Mishustin
Wikipedia
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Vladimir Putin - Wikipedia
1 week ago - Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012.
Rand
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Preparing for the Death of Putin | RAND
October 6, 2025 - Vladimir Putin turns 73 on Oct. 7. That's old for a Russian, but even if he is fanatical about his health, he cannot continue indefinitely. Strategic stability in Europe's future depends on treating Putin's mortality as a concrete policy challenge ...
Putin, 72, says the succession is always on his mind
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January 30, 2025What do you see happening to Russia politically after Putin?
One thing for sure, next leader won't be bald, so we can rule out a lot of candidates. More on reddit.com
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June 18, 2024Putin Will Never Give Up in Ukraine: The West Can’t Change His Calculus—It Can Only Wait Him Out
My impression with the Russian government, and sort of Russian culture in general, is that you have to always call their bluff and show you can be just as callous as they are (this is Israel's mentality with Hamas right now and I can't say I blame them). Russians rely on their "I'm a tough Russian" persona as a way to sort of intimidate people but if you show yourself as unimpressed and keep upping the ante it confounds them and places them in an uncomfortable position. Get under their skin and say stuff like "what's a few more Russian dead you already lost millions in WWII. Keep ruining your already bad demographics and throw more young men into the meat grinder. All for a few inches of Ukrainian territory. Keep it up tough Russians the West will just keep funding Ukraine as more and more Russian mothers cry over the caskets of their sons. Be the tough Russians you claim to be and die for Putin." More on reddit.com
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May 16, 2024Is Putin to old to be President?
I say put him on the Golden Throne and feed him liberals and shitposters, starting with you. World's first ten-thousand-year presidency! More on reddit.com
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June 28, 2023Who is Vladimir Putin?
Vladimir Putin is a former Russian intelligence officer and a politician who has served as president of Russia from 1999 to 2008 and from 2012 to the present. He was also the country’s prime minister in 1999 and from 2008 to 2012.
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How has Vladimir Putin changed Russia?
In the two decades of Vladimir Putin’s reign, he has consolidated his rule and projected to the Russian people an image of Russia as a global power. He turned Russia from a nascent democratic state into an autocratic one, expanded Russia’s influence in the Middle East, strengthened Russian relations with China, and displayed a willingness to use force to achieve his goals, as in his annexation of Crimea in 2014 and his large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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Why is Vladimir Putin still in power?
When Vladimir Putin was named president in 1999, Russia’s constitution limited the president to two consecutive terms. That’s why, after his second term ended in 2008, he served as prime minister before becoming president again in 2012. However, in January 2020 Putin drafted a constitutional amendment that would allow him to remain president for two more terms. It was included in a package of amendments that was approved by the Russian legislature and, in July 2020, by Russian voters in a national referendum.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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Vladimir Putin | Biography, KGB, Political Career, & Facts | Britannica
1 week ago - Although Medvedev grew more assertive as his term progressed, Putin was still regarded as the main power within the Kremlin. ... October 7, 1952, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now St. Petersburg, Russia] (age 73) (Show more)
Kremlin
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Vladimir Putin was born in Leningrad on October 7, 1952.
Russia Matters
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Is Putin Too Old to Rule Russia? | Russia Matters
When Vladimir Putin was sworn in for a fifth term as Russia’s president at the age of 71, the Russian ruler—whom the country’s exiled opposition likes to refer to as the “old man in the bunker”— he was visibly the oldest participant in the lavish ceremony broadcast from the grand ...
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Who Is Putin - Who Is Putin? | Return Of The Czar | FRONTLINE | PBS
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Russian president reached the age of 73 | Modern.az
October 7, 2025 - Today is the birthday of Russian President Vladimir Putin; he has turned 73.
Famous Birthdays
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Vladimir Putin - Age, Bio, Family | Famous Birthdays
Authoritarian leader who has served three non-consecutive terms as the President of Russia since 2000.
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Vladimir Putin - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
3 weeks ago - Putin was born on 7 October 1952, in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) during the rule of Joseph Stalin. His parents were Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin (1911–1999) and Maria Ivanovna Putina (née Shelomova; ...
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List of presidents of Russia - Wikipedia
1 week ago - The office of the president of Russia is the highest authority in the Russian Federation. The holder is the federation's head of state and has formal presidency over the State Council as well as being the commander in chief of the Russian Armed Forces. The office was introduced in 1918 after ...
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President of Russia - Wikipedia
1 week ago - In all, three individuals have served four presidencies spanning six full terms. In May 2012, Vladimir Putin became the fourth president; he was re-elected in March 2018 and in March 2024 for two consecutive six-year terms.
The Guardian
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‘People can get younger, perhaps even immortal’: Putin’s pursuit of longevity | Vladimir Putin | The Guardian
September 6, 2025 - “As for the medicine of the future, people of my age are really hoping all of this will happen as soon as possible,” Nazarbayev pleaded with local Kazakh scientists in 2010. Berlusconi eventually died at 86, after a battle with a routine lung infection; Nazarbayev was pushed aside after unrest in Kazakhstan in 2022, his family swept from power; he is now 85. Putin, who knew both men well, appears to be taking it further – pursuing the most ambitious and lavishly funded path toward longevity and the science of extending life.
Al Jazeera
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Vladimir Putin: After 25 years in power, what next for Russia’s president? | Russia-Ukraine war | Al Jazeera
He and fellow media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky used their newspapers and television stations to transform the ex-KGB agent from a political nobody to a national leader, running smear stories on his opponents. Civilians return to the main Grozny market in October 1999 after its destruction by a Russian missile the previous day [File: Antoine Gyori/Sygma via Getty Images] Around this time, another episode shaped Putin’s public image.
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born on October 7, 1952, in Leningrad, U.S.S.R. (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). His father fought in World War II, and both parents held working-class jobs.
The Moscow Times
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Putin Is Aging and Nobody Wants to Do Anything About It - The Moscow Times
August 5, 2025 - It would be logical for the Kremlin to try to come up with a new public persona for Putin now that he is in his seventies. For example, he could be marketed as a wise elder statesman who conserves his strength and rarely appears in public, whose age has given him a wealth of relevant experience.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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How Russia Became a Gerontocracy Once Again | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Putin was elected president at the relatively young age of forty-seven, and those he appointed to key positions upon first entering the Kremlin were of a similar age. At the time, officials in Russia had to retire at sixty-five, without exception, and it did not occur to anyone that the country’s relatively young leadership might still be around at that age.
CNN
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Analysis: As Putin sails to re-election, Russia’s leader has a succession problem | CNN
March 11, 2024 - Russian President Vladimir Putin is widely expected to sail to re-election in a nationwide vote that begins on March 15, securing a fifth term in office and a full third decade as Russia’s paramount leader.