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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 ...
Vladimir Putin came up with an initiative to change the appointment procedure for governors, proposing to confirm them in office by decision of legislature from the candidates proposed by the President. Putin logically linked his initiative to the Beslan tragedy. December: A bill to abolish direct gubernatorial elections was drafted and adopted ...
Upon death, resignation, or removal from office of an incumbent president, the Vice President of the Soviet Union would assume the office, though the Soviet Union dissolved before this was actually tested. [9] After the failed coup in August 1991, the vice president was replaced by an elected member of the State Council of the Soviet Union. [10]
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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 ...
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 ...
The Russian apartment bombings, some believe, hold a key to President Vladimir Putin's views on power and the use of force — while also serving as the most consequential moment in his relentless ...