Vladimir Putin's political trajectory; know more

Your full name is Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, he was born on October 7, 1952, and is a native of Saint Petersburg, the second largest city in Russia.

Putin is a former agent of the KGB, the former intelligence agency of the Soviet Union (USSR). He has controlled Russia for more than two decades. And he has already been the country's prime minister on two occasions.

1990

This was the year that Putin entered politics, he started as an advisor to Anatoly Sobchak, who was his professor at Law School. Sobchak was the first democratically elected mayor of the city of Saint Petersburg.

Like a rocket...

Putin enjoyed a meteoric rise in Russia during the years of the USSR's collapse. In 1991, he was appointed as chairman of the Saint Petersburg Council on International Relations. In 1999, he was already the country's prime minister.

Powerful

Since being elected president in 2000, Putin has accumulated power: he has become an autocrat. He is Russia's longest serving presidential leader since Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who held the position from 1927 to 1953.

Economy

In the 90s, Russia experienced economic and social chaos. At that time the presidency was under the leadership of Boris Yeltsin.

Since taking office, Putin has focused on rebuilding the country's economy and a certain “Russian pride”.

His focus is also on recovering the country's origins and influence on the former territories of the former USSR, and even the times of the Russian Empire, before the socialist revolution.

Invasion in Ukraine

The invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022, and is a reflection of Putin's ambitions.

The argument he used to start the war is to prevent Ukraine from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

This was not the first time that Putin “sponsored” a military invasion of other countries. Ukraine was invaded in 2014, Georgia in 2008, and even as Prime Minister Putin invaded Chechnya in 1999.

Managed democracy

Under Putin’s government, “managed democracy” was created. How it works? The basic institutions of democracy continue, but are controlled by the state and its allies.

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In other words, there is still the press, Legislature and Judiciary there, but all these bodies work more on paper, because they are not independent of the Executive Branch: they are always under the eyes of Putin and his allies. 👀

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