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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.
Sergey Guriyev, when talking about Putin's economic policy, divided it into four distinct periods: the "reform" years of his first term (1999–2003); the "statist" years of his second term (2004—the first half of 2008); the world economic crisis and recovery (the second half of 2008–2013); and the Russo-Ukrainian War, Russia's growing ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Putin, who was first elected president in March 2000, announced his decision to run in the March 17 presidential election after a Kremlin award ceremony, when war veterans and others pleaded with ...
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]
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. Rather, he said, "the choice is theirs: do they intend to continue trying to contain Russia, continue the policy of aggression, continuous pressure on ...