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  2. Dmitry Medvedev - Wikipedia

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    Medvedev with Vladimir Putin on 27 March 2000, a day after Putin's victory in the presidential election. In June 1996, Medvedev's colleague Vladimir Putin was brought into the Russian presidential administration. Three years later, on 16 August 1999, he became Prime Minister of Russia. Three months later, in November 1999, Medvedev became one ...

  3. Vladimir Putin's rise to power - Wikipedia

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    Putin's first decree as acting president, as a loyal successor, was to grant Yeltsin immunity from future corruption charges. [ 8 ] At the end of 1999, a law was passed in Russia establishing strict conditions for registering candidates for the presidency, including collecting 1 million signatures and regulating financing, which gave an ...

  4. Political career of Vladimir Putin - Wikipedia

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    Second Cabinet of Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin with Dmitry Medvedev. Putin was barred from a third term by the Constitution. First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was elected his successor. On 8 May 2008, only a day after handing the presidency to Medvedev, Putin was appointed Prime Minister of Russia, maintaining his political dominance ...

  5. 2008 Russian presidential election - Wikipedia

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    Election logo. Presidential elections were held in Russia on 2 March 2008 and resulted in the election of Dmitry Medvedev as the third President of Russia.Medvedev was elected for a four-year term with the support of incumbent president Vladimir Putin and five political parties (United Russia, Fair Russia, Agrarian Party, Civilian Power, and Russian Ecological Party "The Greens"), received 71% ...

  6. Vladimir Putin - Wikipedia

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    Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin [c] [d] (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 [e] and again from 2008 to 2012.

  7. Putin names ex-bodyguard Alexei Dyumin, a potential successor ...

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    (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Alexei Dyumin, his former bodyguard, as secretary of the advisory State Council on Wednesday, a step that fuelled speculation about Dyumin's ...

  8. Putin reignites tensions over Wagner’s future with successor push

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    Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to appoint a successor to lead the Wagner Group is reigniting public tensions over the future of the mercenary company. Wagner’s next leader has been ...

  9. Before the Moskva, there was the Kursk: The sunken submarine ...

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    For longtime observers of Vladimir Putin’s rise, it was impossible not to think of the Kursk when the Moskva, the flagship missile cruiser of the Black Sea Fleet, sank on April 14. The two ...