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Vladimir Putin
- First inauguration of Vladimir PutinBoris Yeltsin resigned as President of Russia on the 31st of December 1999. Vladimir Putin became Acting President immediately after that resignation.
- Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)The Russo-Ukrainian war, in its current devastating phase, began before dawn on the 24th of February 2022, when Russian president Vladimir Putin announced…
- 2020 amendments to the Constitution of RussiaVladimir Putin made new proposals during his annual address to the Federal Assembly on the 15th of January 2020. This moment marked a sharp turn from earlier…
- New STARTNew START, signed on the 8th of April 2010 in Prague, was the most significant nuclear arms reduction agreement between the United States and Russia in a…
- Vladimir PutinVladimir Putin was born on the 7th of October 1952 in Leningrad, a city shaped by some of the most catastrophic violence of the 20th century.
- 2022 Russian invasion of UkraineIn 2013, Ukraine's parliament overwhelmingly approved finalising an association agreement with the European Union. Russia put pressure on Ukraine to reject…
- PutinismThe phrase Putinism first appeared in print on the 11th of January 2000. Andrei Piontkovsky published an article titled Putinism in the newspaper Sovetskaya…
- COVID-19 pandemic in RussiaOn the 31st of January 2020, two Chinese citizens tested positive for the virus in Russia. One person was located in Tyumen, a city deep within Siberia.
- Russia under Vladimir PutinOn the 31st of December 1999, Boris Yeltsin resigned as president of Russia and handed power to a former KGB officer named Vladimir Putin.
- Russo-Georgian WarThe Russo-Georgian War began in August 2008, in a region the world had largely forgotten. Sixteen days of fighting would displace approximately 192,000…