These confrontations have also lead to Putin establishing control over Russian media outlets previously owned by the oligarchs.

In 2001 and 2002, TV channels NTV ( previously owned by Gusinsky ), TV6 and TVS ( owned by Berezovsky ) were all taken over by media groups loyal to Putin.

He was made director of the Federal Tax Police by Vladimir Putin in 2001, having previously been Deputy Secretary of the Security Council.

It was later revealed that the previously unheard-of Baikalfinansgrup is a group of Kremlin insiders headed by Igor Sechin, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration and a close associate of President Vladimir Putin.

Putin also served as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus from 2008 to 2012.

Dmitry Kozak and Vladislav Surkov, members of the Vladimir Putin administration reportedly served in GRU.

During the Duma election campaign Berezovsky's ORT TV served as an extremely effective propaganda machine for the Putin camp, using aggressive attack reporting and programming to denigrate and ridicule Putin's rivals, Primakov and Luzhkov, tactics strongly criticized as undue interference with the media.

Previously, as secretary of the Russian Security Council, Ivanov served as an adviser to President Boris Yeltsin and later President Vladimir Putin ( November 1999-March 2001 ) on matters of national security.

From July 1998 through August 1999 Ivanov served as a deputy to Vladimir Putin, then director of the Federal Security Service.

If anyone missed the connection between Putin, who served in Germany, and von Stierlitz, articles in the press reminded them of the resemblance and helped create the association.

President of Russia | Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the Bundestag

* George W. Bush hosted dignitaries, including the then President of Russia, Vladimir Putin in 2003 and hosted the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, in 2007.

The term is still found in use in Russia today ( for example, President Vladimir Putin has been referred to in the Russian media as a " chekist " due to his career in the KGB ).

It has been questioned whether President Tarja Halonen represented only Finland or the entire EU when she met with President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

Tekiso Hati, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Lesotho, presenting his credentials to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The new company reached an agreement with the deputy mayor of St Petersburg, the future Russian Prime Minister and President, Vladimir Putin, to receive a tax break in order to keep the LOMO factory in the city open.

The current Ambassador of Mauritius to Russia is Mahendr Dosieah, who presented his Letters of Credence to Russian President Vladimir Putin on 25 July 2006.

In 2005, Queen Margarethe II of Denmark and President Vladimir Putin of Russia and their respective governments agreed that the Empress's remains should be returned to St. Petersburg in accordance with her wish to be interred next to her husband.

* 1952 – Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister and former President of the Russian Federation

On 31 December 1999 President Yeltsin resigned, handing the post to the recently appointed Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, who then won the 2000 presidential election.

On 2 March 2008, Dmitry Medvedev was elected President of Russia, whilst Putin became Prime Minister.

Former President Vladimir Putin had advocated a strategic partnership with close integration in various dimensions including establishment of EU-Russia Common Spaces.

" The textbook History of Russia and the World in the 20th century ( 2004 ), by Nikita Zagladin, replaced the National History: 20th century, by Igor Dolutsky ; Zagladin ’ s textbook was produced under the aegis of President Vladimir Putin, who wanted a more patriotic textbook.

Due to a common enemy, diplomatic cooperation between the two countries dramatically got back on track during the late 1990s and early 2000s, when Vladimir Putin was elected the President, and then the Prime Minister of Russia, and along with Chinese leader Hu Jintao opposed UN Peacekeepers in Darfur.

In March 2006, Russian President Vladimir Putin became the first foreign leader to visit the monastery.

With then President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, in 2002.

Then Russian President Vladimir Putin, among others, warned that the project would increase the danger of accidental nuclear war.

Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan with then President of Russia Vladimir Putin on 10 September 2007.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (; born 7 October 1952 ) is a Russian politician who has been the General Secretary of the United Russia since 1 January 2008, and the President of Russia since 7 May 2012.

* March 26 – Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia.

* Dmitry Medvedev succeeded Vladimir Putin as the President of Russia in 2008.

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Economic turmoil and devaluation of the ruble continued, and with heart and alcohol troubles, he stepped down from office on the last day of 1999, handing power to Vladimir Putin.

After the success of political forces close to Putin in the December 1999 parliamentary elections, Yeltsin evidentially felt confident enough in Putin that he resigned from the presidency on December 31, six months before his term was due to expire.

In a campaign speech in February 2004, for example, Putin called the dismantlement of the Soviet Union a " national tragedy on an enormous scale ," from which " only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.

Work began on the pipeline, two days after President Putin agreed to changing the route away from Lake Baikal.

The suborned hostages made an appeal, possibly under orders or duress, to Putin to cease hostilities in Chechnya and asked him to refrain from assaulting the building.

President Vladimir Putin visiting the Sklifosovsky Emergency Medicine Institute to meet with hostages rescued from the theater in Dubrovka.

On October 3, 2005, in accordance with the wishes of his daughter Marina Denikina and by authority of President Vladimir Putin of Russia, General Denikin's remains were transferred from the United States and buried at the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.

Kharazi ( second from left in standing ) seen Mohammad Khatami and Vladimir Putin

According to information from the US Embassy in Brussels ( published by Wikileaks in November 2010 ): Patten said in April 2004 that Russian President Vladimir Putin has done a good job for Russia mainly due to high world energy prices, but he had serious doubts about the man ’ s character.

In 2012, commenting on stepping down from the post of United Russia party leader, Vladimir Putin said “ The constitution doesn ’ t forbid the president to be a member of any party, but in the spirit of how our political life has evolved, a president is first and foremost a consolidating figure for all the political forces of the country, for all citizens ”.

The Russian government under President Vladimir Putin repealed a law which had banned the import of used nuclear fuel, which makes it possible for Russians to offer a reprocessing service for clients outside Russia ( similar to that offered by BNFL. PUREX chemistry The current method of choice is to use the PUREX liquid-liquid extraction process which uses a tributyl phosphate hydrocarbon mixture to extract both uranium and plutonium from nitric acid.

Putin privately told Lord John Browne, the former head of BP, " I have eaten more dirt than I need to from that man.

In May 2010, Mikhail Kasyanov, who became an opposition figure after serving as Putin's prime minister from 2000 to 2004, told the court that Putin, while president, had been angered by Khodorkovsky's support of the Communist Party together with liberal Yabloko and the Union of Right Forces.

Furthermore, Klaus obtained the 2007 Pushkin Medal for the promotion of Russian culture from President Putin.

However, when Vladimir Putin took over from Yeltsin in 2000, he began to clamor for a restoration of Alexandrov ’ s music in place of Yeltsin's choice.

Mikhalkov receiving the List of orders, decorations, and medals of the Russian Federation | Order for Service to the Fatherland 2nd Class from then President of Russia Vladimir Putin on 13 March 2003.

He was one of the signers of the Open letter to the President Vladimir V. Putin from the Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences against clericalisation of Russia.

Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin sent his condolences to Ginzburg's family, saying " We bid farewell to an extraordinary personality whose outstanding talent, exceptional strength of character and firmness of convictions evoked true respect from his colleagues ".

Vladimir Putin was one of the company's named advisers from 1992 until he became President of Russia in 2000.

He argued that the reformist camp never recovered from the wounds sustained in this struggle, setting the political stage for conservative nationalists, and eventually Vladimir Putin.