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Protestors the day before Putin's return to the presidency in 2012. Putin faced a term limit for the second time after he was reelected in 2018. Having served two terms consecutively, he would have been ineligible to run in the 2024 election. [15] Putin oversaw a wide-ranging series of constitutional amendments in 2020.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin [c] [d] (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 [e] and again from 2008 to 2012.
Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Ocheretnaya [1] [a] (formerly Putina; [b] née Shkrebneva; [c] born 6 January 1958) is a Russian linguist who served as the First Lady of Russia from 2000 to 2008 and from 2012 to 2014 while married to her then-husband, Vladimir Putin, the current president and former prime minister of Russia.
In December 2022, Solovei announced Putin was being treated with cancer drugs for an unspecified, advanced stage cancer and "the end is already in sight". [13] Several years prior, in 2017, Solovei suggested that Putin might resign due to ill health. [1] Professional opinion concerning Putin's mental health has been expressed: [14]
On 21 October 2011, the Russian Parliament passed a law restricting abortion to the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, with an exception up to 22 weeks if the pregnancy was the result of rape, and for medical necessity it can be performed at any point during pregnancy. [1]
Vladimir Putin sent a warning to "ruling elites" and confirmed Russia has tested a new intermediate range missile in a strike on Ukraine. In a nationwide TV address on Thursday (21 November), the ...
Losing the war in Ukraine is the best hope for Russia to get back on the path to economic and social stability.
Last week, Russia sent the United States a list of its demands for defusing the crisis: a binding promise that Ukraine will never become a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, plus ...