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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.
During Putin's first two terms as president, he signed into law a series of liberal economic reforms, such as the flat income tax of 13 percent, reduced profits-tax and new land and civil codes. [31] Within this period, poverty in Russia reduced by more than half [32] and real GDP has grown rapidly. [33]
President Donald Trump has issued a warning to Russian leader Vladimir Putin on his first day in office. As the 47th president settles into his role at the White House, he was asked about the ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said it was up the West to choose between confrontation and cooperation as he was sworn in for a new six-year term on Tuesday at a Kremlin ...
The President of Russia is limited to no more than two six-year terms. Prior to constitutional amendments in 2020, the limit applied only to consecutive terms, allowing a term-limited president to be elected again after one term out of office. The only presidents to be term-limited are Boris Yeltsin in 2000 and Vladimir Putin in 2008 and again ...
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 ...
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.