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During his first term in office, Putin opposed some of the Yeltsin-era business oligarchs, as well as his political opponents, resulting in the exile or imprisonment of such people as Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky; other oligarchs such as Roman Abramovich and Arkady Rotenberg are friends and allies with Putin. [385]
During his first term in office, he moved to curb the political ambitions of some of the Yeltsin-era oligarchs such as former Kremlin insider Boris Berezovsky, who had "helped Mr. Putin enter the family, and funded the party that formed Mr. Putin's parliamentary base", according to a BBC profile.
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 ...
May 7, 2000 — After winning election with about 53% of the vote, Putin is inaugurated for his first four-year term. It is the first salvo in moves against prominent independent media that have ...
Putin used the the first moments of his fifth term to thank the “heroes” of his war in Ukraine and to rail against the West. Russia “does not refuse dialogue with Western states," he said.
Putin, in power as president or prime minister since 1999, will surpass Soviet leader Josef Stalin and become Russia's longest-serving ruler since 18th century Empress Catherine the Great if he ...
President Term of office Term Previous office Prime Minister; 1: Boris Yeltsin Борис Ельцин 1931–2007: 10 July 1991 – 31 December 1999 (resigned from office) (8 years, 174 days) 1 [note 1] Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Russia (1990–1991) Ivan Silayev: Himself: Yegor Gaidar: Viktor Chernomyrdin: 2 : Sergei Kiriyenko: Viktor ...
Vladimir Putin has formally begun his fifth term as Russia’s president in a carefully choreographed inauguration ceremony, in a country he has shaped in his image after first taking office ...