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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 – 7 May 2012 (4 years, 0 days) 5 : First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (2005–2008) Vladimir Putin: Vladimir Putin Владимир Путин Born 1952 (age 72)
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 ...
Elizabeth would be the last of the direct Romanovs to rule Russia. Elizabeth declared her nephew, Peter, to be her heir. Peter, who would rule as Peter III, was a German prince of the House of Holstein-Gottorp before arriving in Russia to assume the imperial title. He and his German wife Sophia changed their name to Romanov upon inheriting the ...
Russia's GDP by purchasing power parity (PPP) from 1991 to 2019 (in international dollars) Russian male life expectancy from 1980 to 2007. With the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and COMECON and other treaties that served to bind its satellite states to the Soviet Union, the conversion of the world's largest state-controlled economy into a market-oriented economy would have been ...
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin, as the President of the Russian Federation, was appointed as the extraordinary head of government of the Russian Federation. The latter body took the name "Council of Ministers — Government of Russia", the chairman of which became Viktor Chernomyrdin, replacing acting chairman Yegor Gaidar.
Thirty years ago this month, the Soviet Union collapsed, and Ukraine broke away from Moscow's control. Russian President Vladimir Putin has never gotten over it.. That, more than anything ...
World War I: Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. 30 July: World War I: Russia mobilized its army to defend Serbia. 1 August: World War I: Germany declared war on Russia in defense of Austria-Hungary. 1915: 2 May: Gorlice–Tarnów offensive: The German army launched an offensive across the length of the Eastern Front. 4 August
The Russian military scrambled to defend Russia's capital. The greatest challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin in his more than two decades in power fizzled out after the rebellious ...