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Following Yeltsin's resignation, Putin became acting president and, in less than four months, was elected to his first term as president. He was reelected in 2004 . Due to constitutional limitations of two consecutive presidential terms, Putin served as prime minister again from 2008 to 2012 under Dmitry Medvedev .
After Putin was appointed prime minister, Yeltsin publicly announced his support for Putin as his successor. Analysts initially did not consider Putin a potential president—the only scenario that journalist Alexei Volin could imagine to "help a hopeless client with low ratings and no public image" become president was "a short victorious war."
Putin with John Paul II in the Vatican City (5 June 2000) Many in the Russian press and in the international media warned that the death of some 130 hostages in the special forces' rescue operation during the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis would severely damage President Putin's popularity. However, shortly after the siege had ended, the ...
March 26, 2000 - Is elected president of Russia. May 7, 2000 - Putin is sworn in. June 16, 2001 - Putin meets with US President George W. Bush and the men hold a joint press conference. Bush tells ...
Since succeeding President Boris Yeltsin in the waning hours of 1999, Putin has transformed Russia from a country emerging from economic collapse to a pariah state Putin begins his fifth term as ...
Vladimir Putin official portrait Putin and U.S. president George W. Bush at the 2005 Moscow Victory Day Parade. The report by Andrew C. Kuchins in November 2007 said that "Russia today is a hybrid regime that might best be termed "illiberal internationalism", although neither word is fully accurate and requires considerable qualification. From ...
Putin's Progress is a biography written by Peter Truscott about Russian president Vladimir Putin's rise to power. The book was published in January 2004 by New York-based publishers Simon & Schuster. [1] The book deals mainly with Putin's childhood, education, involvement with the KGB/FSB, rise to power, and the first few years of his ...
Vice President: Acting president during the 1993 constitutional crisis. His powers were not recognized by Boris Yeltsin. Viktor Chernomyrdin Виктор Черномырдин 1938–2010 (aged 72) 5–6 November 1996 Prime Minister: Acting president during Boris Yeltsin's heart surgery. Vladimir Putin Владимир Путин Born 1952 ...