Vladimir Putin
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин, ; born 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, USSR; now Saint Petersburg, Russia) was the second President of Russia and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when president Boris Yeltsin resigned in a surprising move, and then Putin won the 2000 presidential election. In 2004, he was re-elected for a second term lasting until 7 May 2008.
Due to constitutionally mandated term limits, Putin was ineligible to run for a third consecutive Presidential term. After the victory of his successor, Dmitry Medvedev, in the 2008 presidential elections, he was then nominated by the latter to be Russia's Prime Minister; Putin took the post on 8 May 2008.
- Birth Date:
- October 07, 1952
- Birthplace:
- Leningrad, Soviet Union
- Religion:
- Russian Orthodox
- Spouse:
- Lyudmila Putina
- University Attended:
- Leningrad State University
- Political party:
- United Russia
- Title:
- Prime Minister of Russia
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