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  2. List of presidents of Russia - Wikipedia

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    Vladimir Putin: 2: Vladimir Putin Владимир Путин Born 1952 (age 72) 7 May 2000 – 7 May 2008 (acting from 31 December 1999) (8 years, 128 days) 3 : Prime Minister of Russia (1999–2000) Mikhail Kasyanov [note 2] Mikhail Fradkov: 4 : Viktor Zubkov: 3: Dmitry Medvedev Дмитрий Медведев Born 1965 (age 59) 7 May 2008 ...

  3. List of Russian assassinations - Wikipedia

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    Russian oligarch and leader of Wagner Group, Wagner commanders, air crew 2023-08-24 Kuzhenkino, Tver Oblast Russia: 10 (including 7 targets) 0 Killed in plane crash after likely bomb exploded on board. [38] [39] [40] Putin's right-hand man Nikolai Patrushev is believed to have orchestrated the assassination of Prigozhin. [41] Alexander Perepilichny

  4. List of leaders of Russia - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of rulers of Kievan Rus', the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, the Russian Republic, the Soviet Union, and the modern Russian Federation.It does not include regents, acting rulers, rulers of the separatist states in the territory of Russia, persons who applied for the post of ruler, but did not become one, rebel leaders who did not control the capital, and the nominal ...

  5. List of heads of state of Russia - Wikipedia

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    On 30 December 1922, the Russian Soviet Republic, along with the Soviet pro-Bolshevik republics of Ukraine, Belarus and the Southern Caucasus were merged into the Soviet Union, with the Russian SFSR authorities holding the authority of the highly centralized country, which was governed by a leader of the Communist Party or a collective leadership .

  6. Yevgeny Prigozhin - Wikipedia

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    Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin [a] [b] (1 June 1961 – 23 August 2023) was a Russian mercenary leader and oligarch. [5] He led the Wagner Group, a private military company, and was a close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin until launching a rebellion in June 2023. [6]

  7. Vladimir Putin - Wikipedia

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    Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 [e] and again from 2008 to 2012. [f] [7] At 25 years and 2 days, he is the longest-serving Russian or Soviet leader since the 30-year tenure of Joseph Stalin. Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He resigned in ...

  8. List of leaders of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    As leader of the Politburo, Stalin consolidated near-absolute power by 1938 after the Great Purge, a series of campaigns of political murder, repression and persecution. [16] On 22 June 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union , [ 17 ] but by December the Soviet Army managed to stop the attack just shy of Moscow.

  9. Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia

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    Vladimir Putin, Bill Clinton, and George H. W. Bush appeared at Yeltsin's funeral. President Putin declared the day of his funeral a national day of mourning, with the nation's flags flown at half-staff and all entertainment programs suspended for the day. [175] Putin said, upon declaring 25 April 2007 a day of national mourning, that: