Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin


Putin was born in 1952 and raised in Lenigrad (now St. Petersburg). In 1975 he graduated from Leningrad State University and joined the KGB, the Soviet intelligence agency, where he was assigned to East Germany until its collapse in 1989. He returned to the USSR as an advisor to Leningrad State University and later as advisor to the Mayor of Leningrad. Following the breakup of the USSR, he left the KGB. Putin spoke against the US invasion of Iraq, and has recently announced a new program of improving and developing new strategic (nuclear) weapons.	Sapience Home Site map About Sapience Personal studies Biography
He went to Moscow and rapidly rose in the ranks of the rapidly changing Russian government, becoming in 1998 director of the Federal Security Service (one of the successor agencies to the KGB). In 1999 he was appointed by Boris Yeltsin as Prime Minister, and on Yeltsin's resignation on Dec 31, 1999, as acting President. In May 2000 he was confirmed as President in a national election.

Putin was born in 1952 and raised in Lenigrad (now St. Petersburg).

In 1975 he graduated from Leningrad State University and joined the KGB, the Soviet intelligence agency, where he was assigned to East Germany until its collapse in 1989. He returned to the USSR as an advisor to Leningrad State University and later as advisor to the Mayor of Leningrad. Following the breakup of the USSR, he left the KGB.

Putin spoke against the US invasion of Iraq, and has recently announced a new program of improving and developing new strategic (nuclear) weapons.

He went to Moscow and rapidly rose in the ranks of the rapidly changing Russian government, becoming in 1998 director of the Federal Security Service (one of the successor agencies to the KGB). In 1999 he was appointed by Boris Yeltsin as Prime Minister, and on Yeltsin's resignation on Dec 31, 1999, as acting President. In May 2000 he was confirmed as President in a national election.