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Electoral history of Vladimir Putin, second and fourth President of Russia and 33rd Prime Minister of Russia.. The legitimacy of 21st century elections in Russia, with their consistent high turn-out for one candidate, have been questioned by academics and observers, although such accusations of fraud and vote-rigging have been consistently denied by Russian officials.
Vladimir Putin has served as President of the Russian Federation continuously since 2012, having previously served between 2000 and 2008, after which the position was held by Dmitry Medvedev. According to official data, in the 2024 presidential election, Putin won with 87.28% of the votes in the first round.
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. [387]
Russian President Vladimir Putin basked in a victory early Monday that was never in doubt, as partial election results showed him easily securing a fifth term after facing only token challengers ...
(Reuters) - Following are reactions from foreign governments and officials to Russia's presidential election, which handed Vladimir Putin a landslide win and another six-year term in office ...
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.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday congratulated Donald Trump on his US election victory in a wide-ranging speech that was followed by a three-hour marathon question-and-answer session.
As stated in the history course by Russian Doctors of History Barsenkov and Vdovin, the basic ideas of the article were represented in the election platform of Vladimir Putin and supported by the majority of the country's citizens, leading to the victory of Vladimir Putin in the first round of the 2000 election, with 52 per cent of the votes cast.