Many, of course, were not even born When Vladimir Putin, when the current president of Russia was first invested as the head of state. Because they have passed, nothing else and no less than 25 years. Because it was already in FAR 2000, when May 7, Now the Russian leader took his position as soon as Boris Yeltsin resigned.
This was in the elections held in March of the same year. It was in the elections that Putin went as a temporary president and won with 52.94% of the vote. So came to power. So the president appeared, who goes to his fifth mandate, and this is, except In 2008, when he put Dmitry Medvedev, his dolphin, In the Kremlin, it was the one who sent in Russia.
The team that has already stroked when in the summer of 1999 Boris Yeltsin appointed his prime minister -minister of Russia. It was his fourth option after On the cessation of 18 months to three other government leadersThe couple ended when, at the end of the year, Yeltsin left his position.
And there was Putin. Putin, who returned to St. Petersburg with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the farewell of communism in East Germany. Already in Russia he continued Work in secret services, And this was in 1991, when, according to the official version, he resigned from his rank of lieutenant colonel after trying to coup against Gorbachev in 1991.
The first is the first: nuclear portfolio
Nine years later, Putin came to power in Russia. The first thing he had in his hands was The nuclear portfolio that Yeltsin gave him. And the first thing he had to encounter is a great economic crisis … and the second war in Chechnya. Thus became known the former director of KGB heirs.
More than convulsive situation. One is disappointed with Yeltsin. With the economic changes that came from Soviet socialism to the most typical of the West. That’s when The Russian Army covered Deniiwith Putin, which makes this big problem to become one of the regions in which he enjoys Very popular. The economy decided it because oil reached high prices in the international community.
Changed the constitution to continue in power
He enjoyed power. Putin, seeing that the Constitution made only two mandates, changed it to go to the fifth and who knows whether to achieve the sixth in accordance with the current rules marked by himself. Because 25 years have passed, but more than 35 And he ends his direction in Russia, being eighty -year -olds.
And there are few opposition. His authority was only called into question For the armed uprising of Prigozhin, His ancient ally. And he and the rest of the vagner dome They died in a plane crash Two months after the uprising.
His opposition in exile, in prison or dead
Because Putin narrowed the fence to everyone who dared to criticize it. The critical press disappeared with him. Anna Politavskaya, a journalist, was shot on the portal of her house in 2006. His rivals, in exile or in prison. Or the dead, like Alexei Navalni, who died in prison in the Arctic, where he served for fraud and extremism.
Its popularity is high. This is due to the fact that the war caused an opinion that its citizens about the figure of his leader. This is in your country, because in the rest of the world it is not quite the same. His relationship with the West is almost zero And, despite his friendship with Donald Trump, tension with the United States for his attacks on civilians in Ukraine is becoming increasingly tangible.
Because in the Crimea, in 2014 it all started. Because he continued in 2022, With the invasion of the country led by Volodimyr Zelensky. From this moment, the threat of both himself and his government in relation to every participation of Europe in the conflict were constant.
Russia, almost isolated from the world
As a constant, the bombardment of the population of Ukraine was. Especially this year, in 2025, in which attacks on the innocent multiplied and in which their bombs were not military infrastructure But civilians. However, Russia joined its leader.
The leader, Putin, who lives the 25th anniversary of his first inauguration. This, with the exception of cases when in 2008 he placed his dolphin, he ruled for five years in Russia. Now that his country is almost isolated from the world of the war, the invasion of Ukraine to find out how many years he can turn in the Kremlin. The constitution has already changed if necessary …
