This month marks 25 years in power for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin was first inaugurated in 2000 and has become ...

Exactly 25 years ago on May 7, an obscure ex-KGB colonel Vladimir Putin — with little public exposure as deputy mayor of St ...

Putin’s predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, had become a walking punch line.​​ Russia was still reeling from the humiliation of ...

Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel who was handed the presidency on the last day of 1999 Boris Yeltsin, served as president from 1999 to 2008, then as prime minister until 2012, and then again ...

Putin himself was chosen as former President Boris Yeltsin's successor in 1999. By 2025, Putin's regime is widely characterized as authoritarian with growing totalitarian features. Power remains ...