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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 ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin took "personal control" of the investigation into Nemtsov's assassination. [18] He instructed the Investigative Committee, Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Federal Security Service to create a single team to investigate the assassination of Nemtsov. [19]
Boris Yeltsin resigned as President of the Russian Federation. Prime Minister Putin became acting president. 2000: 26 March: 2000 Russian presidential election: Putin was elected President of Russia with 53 percent of the vote. 12 August: Russian submarine Kursk explosion: An explosion disabled the Russian submarine K-141 Kursk.
On 30 December 1922, the Russian Soviet Republic, along with the Soviet pro-Bolshevik republics of Ukraine, Belarus and the Southern Caucasus were merged into the Soviet Union, with the Russian SFSR authorities holding the authority of the highly centralized country, which was governed by a leader of the Communist Party or a collective leadership .
The two maritime disasters serve as bookends of sorts for the two decades of Russia under Putin’s rule. The first took place shortly after he assumed the presidency, when dreams of a democratic ...
Amid the chaos of Russia’s brief uprising, an unlikely figure emerged to take credit for calming the spiraling situation.Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus and often called “Europe ...
[482] At the time, he believed Putin to be a committed democrat who nevertheless had to use "a certain dose of authoritarianism" to stabilize the economy and rebuild the state after the Yeltsin era. [481] At Putin's request, Gorbachev became co-chair of the "Petersburg Dialogue" project between high-ranking Russians and Germans. [480]