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US Vice President Joe Biden and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia in March 2011. Prior to the summit, Biden and Putin had met once, in Moscow in March 2011, when Biden was vice president and Putin was prime minister. After an official group meeting Biden characterized in his memoir as "argumentative," he and Putin met ...
Third inauguration of Vladimir Putin: Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow. 2014 Crimean speech of Vladimir Putin: Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow. Valdai speech of Vladimir Putin: Valdai Discussion Club, Sochi, Russia 2018 Fourth inauguration of Vladimir Putin: Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow. 2020 2020 Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly
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.
"We all have to work to end the conflicts and crises," President Biden said in his first public comments on the Ukraine-Russia war since authorizing the use of American rockets far inside Russia.
“Biden,” Putin said. “He is a more experienced, predictable person, an old-school politician.” But, he added, Moscow will work with any U.S. leader who has the trust of the American people.
Met with President Islam Karimov; this is the first foreign visit after Vladimir Putin's inauguration for the first presidential term. Turkmenistan: Ashgabat: May 19 Met with President Saparmurat Niyazov. Belarus: Minsk: May 23–24 Met with President Alexander Lukashenko.
PHOTO: President Barack Obama, from right, President-elect Donald Trump, First Lady-elect Melania Trump, and First Lady Michelle Obama, outside of the White House ahead of the 58th presidential ...