In 2004, the small Ainu community living in Kamchatka Krai wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin, urging him to reconsider any move to award the Southern Kuril Islands to Japan.

President of Russia | Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the Bundestag

Rabbani shaking hands with Vladimir Putin in 2001.

* 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 ).

Stoiber and Vladimir Putin

Stoiber is known for backing Vladimir Putin and there have been comparisons to Gerhard Schröder.

Vladimir Putin is known to have given Stoiber " extreme forms of flattery " and privileges such as a private dinner at Putin's residence outside Moscow.

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.

Gaddafi with then-President of Russia Vladimir Putin in 2008

In the history of bilateral relations, the first Russian president to come on an official visit to Luxembourg was Vladimir Putin on 24 May 2007.

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.

* 2000 – Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.

* 2012 – Russian presidential election, 2012: Voters in Russia go to the polls for a presidential election with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin claiming victory despite allegations of voter fraud.

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.

In August 2009, in an article written for the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin condemned the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact as " immoral.

* 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.

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

Bush meeting Vladimir Putin at Rice in 2001

" 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.

Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Seoul in February 2001, while South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun visited Moscow in September 2004.

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.

Vladimir Stavski, the chairman of the Union, was terrified that he himself would be punished for Pasternak's dissent.

In 1917, Mussolini as leader of the Fasci of Revolutionary Action praised the October Revolution that brought Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik movement to power in Russia, as Mussolini himself desired a revolution in Italy to bring the Fascists to power.

In her 2002 victory over Kasparov, she deliberately chose a line Kasparov used against Vladimir Kramnik, employing the strategy of forcing the opponent to " play against himself ".

Later, while Sartre was labeled by some authors as a resistant, the French philosopher and resistant Vladimir Jankelevitch criticized Sartre's lack of political commitment during the German occupation, and interpreted his further struggles for liberty as an attempt to redeem himself.

The ideology was Marxism-Leninism ; this reflected the fact that Stalin himself was not a Communist theoretician, in contrast to Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, and that he prided himself on maintaining the legacy of Lenin as a founding father for the Soviet Union and the future Communist world.

When Vladimir promised to baptize himself and to convert his people to Christianity, Basil finally agreed.

Asimov used this obscure variation to insert himself into The Caves of Steel just like he referred to himself as " Azimuth or, possibly, Asymptote " in Thiotimoline to the Stars, in much the same way that Vladimir Nabokov appeared in Lolita anagrammatically disguised as " Vivian Darkbloom ".

" Many other well-known Russian and Jewish artists eventually sought to escape: these included Chaim Soutine, Max Ernst, Max Beckmann, Ludwig Fulda, author Victor Serge and prize-winning author Vladimir Nabokov, who although not Jewish himself, had a " passionate interest " in Jews and Israel.

In Dune, the Bene Gesserit breeding scheme is, in theory, to have come to full fruition from the union of an Atreides daughter ( planned to be born of the Bene Gesserit Lady Jessica and the Duke Leto Atreides ) and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, nephew of the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen ( himself secretly the natural father of the Lady Jessica ).

Containing work by a myriad of authors, which included J. P. Donleavy, Edward Albee, Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Vladimir Nabokov, Bruce Jay Friedman, himself, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine, this was one of the first American anthologies devoted to the conception of black humor as a literary genre ; the publication also sparked nation wide interest in black humor.

Vladimir's girlfriend was murdered by Fantômas and Vladimir himself was eventually shot by Juve.

Russian president Vladimir Putin rejected the American charges himself during a telephone conversation with George W. Bush, the Presidential press secretary indicated Tuesday, quoted by the Interfax agency.

A peace-loving man and the polar opposite of his older brother Vladimir, Abulurd is happy to relinquish the Harkonnen name, adopt his wife's surname " Rabban ," and retire to Lankiveil to distance himself from the self-serving, underhanded, and violent actions of both his brother and of his own son, Glossu.

In these late years, Lafargue had already distanced himself from any form of political activity, living on the outskirts of Paris in the village of Draveil, limiting his contributions to a number of articles and essays, as well as occasional contacts with some of the most outstanding socialist activists of the time, such as Karl Kautsky and Hjalmar Branting of the older generation, and Karl Liebknecht or Vladimir Lenin of the younger generation.

Despite his favorable attitude towards the poor, he was himself attacked by Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and other socialists for lacking positive aims.

Hawat himself is captured by the Imperial Sardaukar during the attack and acquired by the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen through subterfuge.

Around this time, he set upon himself the goal of learning modern Hebrew, and took a Hebrew name — Vladimir became Ze ' ev (" wolf ").

Dan aligned himself with Julius Martov who wanted to have a larger party of activists, rather than Vladimir Lenin's conception of a smaller party of professional revolutionaries.

Some socialist realist propaganda art features Vladimir Lenin manning the gun himself, but it is very unlikely that he ever did so.

Richard M. Dudley and Vladimir Vapnik himself, among others, apply VC-theory to empirical processes.

Chris Hutchins, a biographer of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, describes the relationship between Russian president and Abramovich as like that between a father and a favorite son ; Abramovich himself has stated that his relationship with Putin is a professional business relationship, as signified by his use of the Russian language's formal " Вы " ( like Spanish " usted " or French " vous ") in addressing Putin, as opposed to the informal " ты " ( Spanish " tú " or French " tu ").

Kasparov played the Berlin Defence ( 3 ... Nf6 ), with which Vladimir Kramnik had drawn against Deep Fritz in the 2002 Brains in Bahrain match ( and which Kramnik had also successfully employed as a drawing variation against Kasparov himself in their 2000 World Championship match ).