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'''Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin''' ('''Владимир Владимирович Путин'''; born October 7, 1952) is a Russian right-wing politician and former intelligence officer | '''Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin''' ('''Владимир Владимирович Путин'''; born October 7, 1952) is a Russian right-wing politician and former intelligence officer currently serving as [[President of Russia]] since 2012, though he also held the office from 1999 until 2008. He was previously [[Prime Minister of Russia|prime minister]] from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. As of 2023, Putin is the second longest-serving European president after [[Alexander Lukashenko]] of [[Belarus]]. | ||
Having served as a [[Committee for State Security|KGB]] officer from 1975, he became a liaison officer in [[Dresden]], [[German Democratic Republic (1949–1990)|East Germany]] in 1985. However, after the [[Fall of the Berlin Wall|collapse of the Berlin Wall]] and the subsequent [[German reunification|dissolution of the GDR]], he retired from active service and returned to [[Leningrad]] in 1990. There, he met his former university professor [[Anatoly Sobchak]], a close ally of future president [[Boris Yeltsin]]. He soon joined forces with Sobchak and established connections in the city. | |||
When Sobchak was elected [[Governor of Saint Petersburg|Mayor of Saint Petersburg]] in June 1991, Putin was appointed to serve in the [[Saint Petersburg City Administration|City Council]]. During the [[August Coup]], an attempt by [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninists]] to remove [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] from power and reverse his policies, Putin sided against the conspirators, resigning from the KGB altogether with the rank of ''[[Podpolkovnik]]'' and helping to maintain Yeltsin's control over the city.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Michael Ray|newspaper=Britannica|title=Vladimir Putin|date=2025|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Putin}}</ref> | |||
During his first tenure as president, the [[Russian economy]] grew for eight straight years, with [[GDP]] measured by [[Purchasing power parity|purchasing power]] increasing by 72%, real incomes increased by a factor of 2.5, real wages more than tripled; unemployment and poverty more than halved and the Russians' self-assessed life satisfaction rose significantly.<ref name="challenges_p12">{{Citation|author=Sergei Guriev, Aleh Tsyvinski, Anders Åslund, Andrew C. Kuchins|title=Russia After the Global Economic Crisis|publisher=Peterson Institute for International Economics; Centre for Strategic and International Studies; New Economic School | After the corrupt and undemocratic [[overthrow of the Soviet Union]], he quickly rose through the ranks in Yeltsin's administration and eventually became the favourite for president due to his loyalty in the 1993 and 1999 impeachment processes, the first failing due to a de facto military coup, despite constitutional validity.<ref>https://tass.ru/info/15972287</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=BBC News|title=Russian parliament takes on Yeltsin|date=1999-05-13|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/343409.stm}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=National Security Archive|title=Yeltsin Shelled Russian Parliament 30 Years Ago – U.S. Praised “Superb Handling”|date=2023-10-04|url=https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2023-10-04/yeltsin-shelled-russian-parliament-30-years-ago-us-praised}}</ref> | ||
Putin became Prime Minister on 9 August 1999, and after Yeltsin's resignation on New Year's Day of that same year, became acting President. With presidential elections being held on 26 March 2000, Putin won an alleged landslide, carrying 53.44% of the vote. However, due to irregularities with the election's conduct, many deemed it another sham election in a list of many.<ref>https://www.lib.ru/HISTORY/FELSHTINSKY/naslednik.txt</ref> | |||
During his first tenure as president, the [[Russian economy]] grew for eight straight years, with [[GDP]] measured by [[Purchasing power parity|purchasing power]] increasing by 72%, real incomes increased by a factor of 2.5, real wages more than tripled; unemployment and poverty more than halved and the Russians' self-assessed life satisfaction rose significantly.<ref name="challenges_p12">{{Citation|author=Sergei Guriev, Aleh Tsyvinski, Anders Åslund, Andrew C. Kuchins|year=2010|title=Russia After the Global Economic Crisis|chapter=Challenges Facing the Russian Economy after the Crisis|publisher=Peterson Institute for International Economics; Centre for Strategic and International Studies; New Economic School|isbn=978-0-88132-497-6|pages=12–13}}</ref> This contributed to Western demonisation, since the West had profited from the 1990s "Shock Therapy" of mass privatizations, which Putin has reversed. His economic policies threaten the imperial core's global monopoly on the oil markets, as well as his foreign policy which is against [[NATO]] in general. His regime has defended other states (such as [[Syrian Arab Republic|Syria]]<ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bashar-assad-vladimir-putin-russia-donald-trump-syria-peace-initiatives/ Assad thanks Putin for Russia's efforts "to save our country"]</ref><ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/russian-president-says-his-generals-saved-he-hugs-bashar-al-assad-717973 Russian President Says His Generals Saved Syria as He Hugs Bashar al-Assad]</ref> and [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]])<ref>[https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Russia-and-Venezuela-Cooperate-in-the-Defense-Sector-20210622-0019.html Russia and Venezuela Cooperate in the Defense Sector]</ref> from Western [[regime change]] efforts. Putin's popularity is decreasing, but his approval rate remains above 75%.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Larry C. Johnson|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]|title=Star CIA Analysts Are Out of Touch With Reality When it Comes to Russia|date=2022-11-26|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/11/26/star-cia-analysts-are-out-of-touch-with-reality-when-it-comes-to-russia/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221127032053/https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/11/26/star-cia-analysts-are-out-of-touch-with-reality-when-it-comes-to-russia/|archive-date=2022-11-27|retrieved=2022-11-29}}</ref> | |||
In 2022, Putin gained a large amount of infamy among bourgeois media for the [[2022 Russo-Ukrainian conflict]], with many of the reports about the conflict being exaggerated or even fabricated. | In 2022, Putin gained a large amount of infamy among bourgeois media for the [[2022 Russo-Ukrainian conflict]], with many of the reports about the conflict being exaggerated or even fabricated. | ||
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Vladimir Putin Владимир Путин | |
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| Born | October 7, 1952 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Political orientation | Anti-communism Bonapartism Russian nationalism Social conservatism |
| Political party | Independent (2012–) United Russia (2008–2012) Unity (1999–2001) Our Home – Russia (1995–1999) KPSS (1975–1991) |
| Website | |
| eng.putin.kremlin.ru | |
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Владимир Владимирович Путин; born October 7, 1952) is a Russian right-wing politician and former intelligence officer currently serving as President of Russia since 2012, though he also held the office from 1999 until 2008. He was previously prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. As of 2023, Putin is the second longest-serving European president after Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus.
Having served as a KGB officer from 1975, he became a liaison officer in Dresden, East Germany in 1985. However, after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent dissolution of the GDR, he retired from active service and returned to Leningrad in 1990. There, he met his former university professor Anatoly Sobchak, a close ally of future president Boris Yeltsin. He soon joined forces with Sobchak and established connections in the city.
When Sobchak was elected Mayor of Saint Petersburg in June 1991, Putin was appointed to serve in the City Council. During the August Coup, an attempt by Marxist–Leninists to remove Mikhail Gorbachev from power and reverse his policies, Putin sided against the conspirators, resigning from the KGB altogether with the rank of Podpolkovnik and helping to maintain Yeltsin's control over the city.[1]
After the corrupt and undemocratic overthrow of the Soviet Union, he quickly rose through the ranks in Yeltsin's administration and eventually became the favourite for president due to his loyalty in the 1993 and 1999 impeachment processes, the first failing due to a de facto military coup, despite constitutional validity.[2][3][4]
Putin became Prime Minister on 9 August 1999, and after Yeltsin's resignation on New Year's Day of that same year, became acting President. With presidential elections being held on 26 March 2000, Putin won an alleged landslide, carrying 53.44% of the vote. However, due to irregularities with the election's conduct, many deemed it another sham election in a list of many.[5]
During his first tenure as president, the Russian economy grew for eight straight years, with GDP measured by purchasing power increasing by 72%, real incomes increased by a factor of 2.5, real wages more than tripled; unemployment and poverty more than halved and the Russians' self-assessed life satisfaction rose significantly.[6] This contributed to Western demonisation, since the West had profited from the 1990s "Shock Therapy" of mass privatizations, which Putin has reversed. His economic policies threaten the imperial core's global monopoly on the oil markets, as well as his foreign policy which is against NATO in general. His regime has defended other states (such as Syria[7][8] and Venezuela)[9] from Western regime change efforts. Putin's popularity is decreasing, but his approval rate remains above 75%.[10]
In 2022, Putin gained a large amount of infamy among bourgeois media for the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian conflict, with many of the reports about the conflict being exaggerated or even fabricated.
Criticism
Anti-communism
In 2000, Putin was quoted as saying, "Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains."[11]
Putin opposes Lenin's policy of national self-determination and criticized the Bolsheviks for creating a separate Ukrainian state.[12]
Homophobia
Putin supported a 2013 bill that discriminated against LGBTQ+ people and criminalized activism for LGBTQ+ equality.[13]
References
- ↑ Michael Ray (2025). "Vladimir Putin" Britannica.
- ↑ https://tass.ru/info/15972287
- ↑ "Russian parliament takes on Yeltsin" (1999-05-13). BBC News.
- ↑ "Yeltsin Shelled Russian Parliament 30 Years Ago – U.S. Praised “Superb Handling”" (2023-10-04). National Security Archive.
- ↑ https://www.lib.ru/HISTORY/FELSHTINSKY/naslednik.txt
- ↑ Sergei Guriev, Aleh Tsyvinski, Anders Åslund, Andrew C. Kuchins (2010). Russia After the Global Economic Crisis: 'Challenges Facing the Russian Economy after the Crisis' (pp. 12–13). Peterson Institute for International Economics; Centre for Strategic and International Studies; New Economic School. ISBN 978-0-88132-497-6
- ↑ Assad thanks Putin for Russia's efforts "to save our country"
- ↑ Russian President Says His Generals Saved Syria as He Hugs Bashar al-Assad
- ↑ Russia and Venezuela Cooperate in the Defense Sector
- ↑ Larry C. Johnson (2022-11-26). "Star CIA Analysts Are Out of Touch With Reality When it Comes to Russia" CovertAction Magazine. Archived from the original on 2022-11-27. Retrieved 2022-11-29.
- ↑ Michael Wines, "PATH TO POWER: A political profile.; Putin Steering to Reform, But With Soviet Discipline," New York Times, February 20, 2000; "Vladimir Putin 1952– Russian statesman, President of the Russian Federation 2000–8 and since 2012," in Oxford Essential Quotations, 5th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2017).
- ↑ "PSL statement: NATO expansion must end to guarantee peace in Ukraine" (2022-02-22). Liberation News. Archived from the original on 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2023-02-04.
- ↑ Stewart Stout (2013-08-27). "Russia: The struggle against anti-LGBTQ repression" Liberation School. Archived from the original on 2022-09-25. Retrieved 2023-01-14.