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Vladimir Putin
- First inauguration of Vladimir PutinOn the 7th of May 2000, Vladimir Putin took the presidential oath of Russia inside the Grand Kremlin Palace, the first inauguration ever held there.
- 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 RussiaOn the 15th of January 2020, Vladimir Putin proposed what would become the most sweeping changes to Russia's 1993 Constitution.
- 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…
- PutinismPutinism, wrote the Hoover Institution's Arnold Beichman in The Washington Times in February 2007, had become "as significant a watchword as Stalinism was in…
- COVID-19 pandemic in RussiaOn the 31st of January 2020, Russia confirmed its first two cases of COVID-19. Both patients were Chinese nationals, one in the Siberian city of Tyumen and…
- 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…