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Vladimir Putin

  • First inauguration of Vladimir PutinPutin's first inauguration was the first ever held in the Grand Kremlin Palace. The ceremony lasted exactly one hour.
  • Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)Russia expected Kyiv to fall within days in February 2022, but it held.
  • 2020 amendments to the Constitution of RussiaRemoving two words, "in a row," reset Vladimir Putin's presidential term count.
  • New STARTNew START's end leaves the US and Russia with no binding nuclear limits for the first time since the early 1970s.
  • Vladimir PutinVladimir Putin's grandfather cooked personal meals for both Lenin and Stalin. Putin later joined the KGB in 1975.
  • 2022 Russian invasion of UkraineDocuments found inside captured Russian tanks said the 2022 invasion of Ukraine would end within ten days.
  • PutinismA 2004 study found siloviki, men from enforcement agencies, held 58 percent of Putin's inner circle.
  • Russo-Ukrainian warOn the morning of the 24th of February 2022, Russia's president Vladimir Putin announced what he called a “special military operation” to “demilitarise and denazify” Ukraine. He also claimed that Russia had no plans to occupy the country.…
  • COVID-19 pandemic in RussiaIn April 2020, Russia's statistics agency counted 2,712 COVID-19 deaths, the crisis centre 1,162.
  • Russia under Vladimir PutinBoris Yeltsin resigned on the 31st of December 1999 and handed Russia to Vladimir Putin.
  • Russo-Georgian WarIn the Russo-Georgian War, Russian columns rolled through the Roki Tunnel on August 8, 2008.

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