The current Russian president has been in the forefront of the country since 1999, linking an interim presidency, five years as prime minister and going through his fourth cycle as head of state, a position he will occupy until at least 2024. With a sober and unpredictable character in the international sphere, won the favor of the people by reinstating the nationalist feeling accompanied by the domain of local communication and with the opposition oligarchs out of the game.
“Whoever tries to stop us and create more threats to our country, our people, must know that Russia’s response will be immediate and will lead to such consequences that they have never faced in their history,” was one of the most shocking phrases of the announcement. that Vladimir Putin did when notifying that he would start military action on Ukraine.
Breaking the formal solemnity of the presidential announcements that usually include a podium, with conciliatory tones, an upright posture and a straight gaze, Putin, leaning back and with his hands on his desk, communicated with an authoritarian gaze the beginning of the war onslaught.
The president has based his speech on Russian nationalism and these two initial decades of the 21st century in Russia are characterized by the regime and the influence of his figure. Criticized abroad, he remains widely supported at home, where his opponents face fierce repression.
Putin’s origins
Far from the positions of influence and power that he occupies today, the story of Vladimir Putin begins in 1952 in a low-income family in Leningrad – present-day Saint Petersburg – during the post-war era.
He shared a communal apartment with his parents and two other brothers for the first 18 years of his life. The book ‘In the first person’, made up of interviews that he himself gave to three journalists in 2000, tells that the current president of Russia has a history where he had to experience poverty and food shortages.
In 1970 he began studying at the Law Faculty of the Leningrad State University, where he graduated with honors five years later. When he finished his academic training he was recruited by the Russian Committee for State Security, better known as the KGB.
After his training at the Espionage Academy, in 1985 he developed counterespionage tasks in the city of Dresden, in East Germany. However, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he returned to the Soviet Union to gradually enter the political world after meeting Anatoli Sobchak, his mentor.
The beginnings of his political career
Under Sobchak’s wing, Vladimir Putin entered politics only in 1991. With Sobchak’s victory as mayor of St. Petersburg, Putin was appointed chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, tasked with building bridges with partners abroad. His good work caused him to be entrusted with the Mayor’s Office when Sobchak was not present and later he was appointed Vice Mayor first.
His performance in municipal tasks led Putin to come into contact with Anatoli Chubais, a transcendental figure for understanding the current Russian economy. Together with Sobchak, they were the keys for Putin to enter the national sphere.
With the fall of Sobchak in Saint Peterbusgo in 1995, Putin migrated to Moscow to join President Boris Yeltsin’s team. Although he joined as deputy director of the Asset Management department, he quickly rose through the ranks. First, as deputy head of the Administration of the Control department. Later, director of the Federal Security Service, an entity that he occupied the space of the KGB.
In 1999 he assumed the leadership of the Government and at the end of that year, due to Yeltsin’s sudden resignation, he became interim successor, a position he confirmed after winning the March 2000 elections with almost 53% of the vote.
The 21st century, the era of Putin in Russia
Initially underestimated by the country’s powerful oligarchs, who considered him a malleable man who would end up favoring the interests of the tycoons, Putin quickly buried the claims of others to build a solid regime that 22 years later continues to enjoy the favor of the people.
He turned the Second Chechen War into a nationalist cause and a bastion of his election campaign. The victory over rebels and terrorist cells was the first sign of Putin’s ability to control armed conflicts. The war ended with the capture of the Chechen capital in February and the reestablishment of a Kremlin-led command in May 2000.
In his first government he had outstanding growth in economic matters by increasing the Gross Domestic Product by 72% and bringing down poverty by 50%, figures that gave him vital social support to win re-election in 2004.
Unable to go for a third term by the Russian Constitution of 1993, in 2007 he promoted the candidacy of his prime minister, Dmitri Medvedev, as successor. In a record vote, according to Borís Gryzlov -speaker of the Lower House-, Putin was appointed as ‘premier’ of Medvedev’s government with a large majority. In this cycle, a reform was enacted that extended presidential cycles from four to six years.
In 2012, Putin swept through a third stage by winning the first round; while in 2018 he obtained 70% to give rise to a fourth command as Russian head of state. Although the last elections had a low turnout.
Control of the media and the oligarchy
While the Western view sees Russia and Vladimir Putin as an authoritarian, aggressive regime with numerous human rights violations, inside the borders the Russian people see the figure of their president as a strong, dominant man committed to the cause of the Russian State. .
A few months after taking office in 2000, Putin took it upon himself to “clean” the media of opponents, something that surprised the oligarchs. In this way, he configured the information management in relation to his own needs.
For one thing, he got rid of critics like tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky. On the other, he lowered the line on what should be said –as in the case of the conflict in Chechnya-, exalting his figure and disrupting his popularity ratings, projecting the image of an implacable leader.
Gusinsky’s independent channel, NTV, was the first media giant to fall. With an audience of 100 million people and a reach of 70% of the territory, it was brought down along with other media.
Today, of Russia’s 3,000 television stations, most do not cover political news. Those that do must submit to government controls. The most important medium is RT, a popular international platform that expands the Kremlin’s guidelines to the world in different languages.
On the other hand, Gusinsky was not the only oligarch to lose influence. Observing how the tycoons had been a problem during the Yeltsin administration, Putin aimed to dominate them.
Boris Berezovsky –lobbyist and owner of high-profile companies- and Mijaíl Khodorkovsky –oil giant- were two of the ‘big fish’ knocked down by the president. Accused of corruption, money laundering, the oligarchs suffered different fates. Some, imprisoned; others, forced into exile. A few died under suspicious conditions. The big conglomerates were left in the hands of men close to Putin.
war conflicts
During Vladimir Putin’s 20 years as Russian leader, the nation adopted a proxy style of warfare, under slogans that served as an excuse to invade new territory. There are three significant cases: the Chechen war of 2000, the conflict with Crimea in 2014 and the advance in Syria in 2018.
The first, described above, was considered by the international community as an internal Russian problem, which gave free rein to military advances. With the Ukrainian region the allegation was “to protect the interests of Russia”; while in Syria it was at the request of President Bashar al-Asad.
With non-linear procedures, Moscow was able to carry out its missions without raising alarm bells in the international community. With its low military profile, Putin’s Russia once again surprised the world by attacking Ukraine in the last few hours.
The current Russian president has been in the forefront of the country since 1999, linking an interim presidency, five years as prime minister and going through his fourth cycle as head of state, a position he will occupy until at least 2024. With a sober and unpredictable character in the international sphere, won the favor of the people by reinstating the nationalist feeling accompanied by the domain of local communication and with the opposition oligarchs out of the game.
“Whoever tries to stop us and create more threats to our country, our people, must know that Russia’s response will be immediate and will lead to such consequences that they have never faced in their history,” was one of the most shocking phrases of the announcement. that Vladimir Putin did when notifying that he would start military action on Ukraine.
Breaking the formal solemnity of the presidential announcements that usually include a podium, with conciliatory tones, an upright posture and a straight gaze, Putin, leaning back and with his hands on his desk, communicated with an authoritarian gaze the beginning of the war onslaught.
The president has based his speech on Russian nationalism and these two initial decades of the 21st century in Russia are characterized by the regime and the influence of his figure. Criticized abroad, he remains widely supported at home, where his opponents face fierce repression.
Putin’s origins
Far from the positions of influence and power that he occupies today, the story of Vladimir Putin begins in 1952 in a low-income family in Leningrad – present-day Saint Petersburg – during the post-war era.
He shared a communal apartment with his parents and two other brothers for the first 18 years of his life. The book ‘In the first person’, made up of interviews that he himself gave to three journalists in 2000, tells that the current president of Russia has a history where he had to experience poverty and food shortages.
In 1970 he began studying at the Law Faculty of the Leningrad State University, where he graduated with honors five years later. When he finished his academic training he was recruited by the Russian Committee for State Security, better known as the KGB.
After his training at the Espionage Academy, in 1985 he developed counterespionage tasks in the city of Dresden, in East Germany. However, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he returned to the Soviet Union to gradually enter the political world after meeting Anatoli Sobchak, his mentor.
The beginnings of his political career
Under Sobchak’s wing, Vladimir Putin entered politics only in 1991. With Sobchak’s victory as mayor of St. Petersburg, Putin was appointed chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, tasked with building bridges with partners abroad. His good work caused him to be entrusted with the Mayor’s Office when Sobchak was not present and later he was appointed Vice Mayor first.
His performance in municipal tasks led Putin to come into contact with Anatoli Chubais, a transcendental figure for understanding the current Russian economy. Together with Sobchak, they were the keys for Putin to enter the national sphere.
With the fall of Sobchak in Saint Peterbusgo in 1995, Putin migrated to Moscow to join President Boris Yeltsin’s team. Although he joined as deputy director of the Asset Management department, he quickly rose through the ranks. First, as deputy head of the Administration of the Control department. Later, director of the Federal Security Service, an entity that he occupied the space of the KGB.
In 1999 he assumed the leadership of the Government and at the end of that year, due to Yeltsin’s sudden resignation, he became interim successor, a position he confirmed after winning the March 2000 elections with almost 53% of the vote.
The 21st century, the era of Putin in Russia
Initially underestimated by the country’s powerful oligarchs, who considered him a malleable man who would end up favoring the interests of the tycoons, Putin quickly buried the claims of others to build a solid regime that 22 years later continues to enjoy the favor of the people.
He turned the Second Chechen War into a nationalist cause and a bastion of his election campaign. The victory over rebels and terrorist cells was the first sign of Putin’s ability to control armed conflicts. The war ended with the capture of the Chechen capital in February and the reestablishment of a Kremlin-led command in May 2000.
In his first government he had outstanding growth in economic matters by increasing the Gross Domestic Product by 72% and bringing down poverty by 50%, figures that gave him vital social support to win re-election in 2004.
Unable to go for a third term by the Russian Constitution of 1993, in 2007 he promoted the candidacy of his prime minister, Dmitri Medvedev, as successor. In a record vote, according to Borís Gryzlov -speaker of the Lower House-, Putin was appointed as ‘premier’ of Medvedev’s government with a large majority. In this cycle, a reform was enacted that extended presidential cycles from four to six years.
In 2012, Putin swept through a third stage by winning the first round; while in 2018 he obtained 70% to give rise to a fourth command as Russian head of state. Although the last elections had a low turnout.
Control of the media and the oligarchy
While the Western view sees Russia and Vladimir Putin as an authoritarian, aggressive regime with numerous human rights violations, inside the borders the Russian people see the figure of their president as a strong, dominant man committed to the cause of the Russian State. .
A few months after taking office in 2000, Putin took it upon himself to “clean” the media of opponents, something that surprised the oligarchs. In this way, he configured the information management in relation to his own needs.
For one thing, he got rid of critics like tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky. On the other, he lowered the line on what should be said –as in the case of the conflict in Chechnya-, exalting his figure and disrupting his popularity ratings, projecting the image of an implacable leader.
Gusinsky’s independent channel, NTV, was the first media giant to fall. With an audience of 100 million people and a reach of 70% of the territory, it was brought down along with other media.
Today, of Russia’s 3,000 television stations, most do not cover political news. Those that do must submit to government controls. The most important medium is RT, a popular international platform that expands the Kremlin’s guidelines to the world in different languages.
On the other hand, Gusinsky was not the only oligarch to lose influence. Observing how the tycoons had been a problem during the Yeltsin administration, Putin aimed to dominate them.
Boris Berezovsky –lobbyist and owner of high-profile companies- and Mijaíl Khodorkovsky –oil giant- were two of the ‘big fish’ knocked down by the president. Accused of corruption, money laundering, the oligarchs suffered different fates. Some, imprisoned; others, forced into exile. A few died under suspicious conditions. The big conglomerates were left in the hands of men close to Putin.
war conflicts
During Vladimir Putin’s 20 years as Russian leader, the nation adopted a proxy style of warfare, under slogans that served as an excuse to invade new territory. There are three significant cases: the Chechen war of 2000, the conflict with Crimea in 2014 and the advance in Syria in 2018.
The first, described above, was considered by the international community as an internal Russian problem, which gave free rein to military advances. With the Ukrainian region the allegation was “to protect the interests of Russia”; while in Syria it was at the request of President Bashar al-Asad.
With non-linear procedures, Moscow was able to carry out its missions without raising alarm bells in the international community. With its low military profile, Putin’s Russia once again surprised the world by attacking Ukraine in the last few hours.
The current Russian president has been in the forefront of the country since 1999, linking an interim presidency, five years as prime minister and going through his fourth cycle as head of state, a position he will occupy until at least 2024. With a sober and unpredictable character in the international sphere, won the favor of the people by reinstating the nationalist feeling accompanied by the domain of local communication and with the opposition oligarchs out of the game.
“Whoever tries to stop us and create more threats to our country, our people, must know that Russia’s response will be immediate and will lead to such consequences that they have never faced in their history,” was one of the most shocking phrases of the announcement. that Vladimir Putin did when notifying that he would start military action on Ukraine.
Breaking the formal solemnity of the presidential announcements that usually include a podium, with conciliatory tones, an upright posture and a straight gaze, Putin, leaning back and with his hands on his desk, communicated with an authoritarian gaze the beginning of the war onslaught.
The president has based his speech on Russian nationalism and these two initial decades of the 21st century in Russia are characterized by the regime and the influence of his figure. Criticized abroad, he remains widely supported at home, where his opponents face fierce repression.
Putin’s origins
Far from the positions of influence and power that he occupies today, the story of Vladimir Putin begins in 1952 in a low-income family in Leningrad – present-day Saint Petersburg – during the post-war era.
He shared a communal apartment with his parents and two other brothers for the first 18 years of his life. The book ‘In the first person’, made up of interviews that he himself gave to three journalists in 2000, tells that the current president of Russia has a history where he had to experience poverty and food shortages.
In 1970 he began studying at the Law Faculty of the Leningrad State University, where he graduated with honors five years later. When he finished his academic training he was recruited by the Russian Committee for State Security, better known as the KGB.
After his training at the Espionage Academy, in 1985 he developed counterespionage tasks in the city of Dresden, in East Germany. However, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he returned to the Soviet Union to gradually enter the political world after meeting Anatoli Sobchak, his mentor.
The beginnings of his political career
Under Sobchak’s wing, Vladimir Putin entered politics only in 1991. With Sobchak’s victory as mayor of St. Petersburg, Putin was appointed chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, tasked with building bridges with partners abroad. His good work caused him to be entrusted with the Mayor’s Office when Sobchak was not present and later he was appointed Vice Mayor first.
His performance in municipal tasks led Putin to come into contact with Anatoli Chubais, a transcendental figure for understanding the current Russian economy. Together with Sobchak, they were the keys for Putin to enter the national sphere.
With the fall of Sobchak in Saint Peterbusgo in 1995, Putin migrated to Moscow to join President Boris Yeltsin’s team. Although he joined as deputy director of the Asset Management department, he quickly rose through the ranks. First, as deputy head of the Administration of the Control department. Later, director of the Federal Security Service, an entity that he occupied the space of the KGB.
In 1999 he assumed the leadership of the Government and at the end of that year, due to Yeltsin’s sudden resignation, he became interim successor, a position he confirmed after winning the March 2000 elections with almost 53% of the vote.
The 21st century, the era of Putin in Russia
Initially underestimated by the country’s powerful oligarchs, who considered him a malleable man who would end up favoring the interests of the tycoons, Putin quickly buried the claims of others to build a solid regime that 22 years later continues to enjoy the favor of the people.
He turned the Second Chechen War into a nationalist cause and a bastion of his election campaign. The victory over rebels and terrorist cells was the first sign of Putin’s ability to control armed conflicts. The war ended with the capture of the Chechen capital in February and the reestablishment of a Kremlin-led command in May 2000.
In his first government he had outstanding growth in economic matters by increasing the Gross Domestic Product by 72% and bringing down poverty by 50%, figures that gave him vital social support to win re-election in 2004.
Unable to go for a third term by the Russian Constitution of 1993, in 2007 he promoted the candidacy of his prime minister, Dmitri Medvedev, as successor. In a record vote, according to Borís Gryzlov -speaker of the Lower House-, Putin was appointed as ‘premier’ of Medvedev’s government with a large majority. In this cycle, a reform was enacted that extended presidential cycles from four to six years.
In 2012, Putin swept through a third stage by winning the first round; while in 2018 he obtained 70% to give rise to a fourth command as Russian head of state. Although the last elections had a low turnout.
Control of the media and the oligarchy
While the Western view sees Russia and Vladimir Putin as an authoritarian, aggressive regime with numerous human rights violations, inside the borders the Russian people see the figure of their president as a strong, dominant man committed to the cause of the Russian State. .
A few months after taking office in 2000, Putin took it upon himself to “clean” the media of opponents, something that surprised the oligarchs. In this way, he configured the information management in relation to his own needs.
For one thing, he got rid of critics like tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky. On the other, he lowered the line on what should be said –as in the case of the conflict in Chechnya-, exalting his figure and disrupting his popularity ratings, projecting the image of an implacable leader.
Gusinsky’s independent channel, NTV, was the first media giant to fall. With an audience of 100 million people and a reach of 70% of the territory, it was brought down along with other media.
Today, of Russia’s 3,000 television stations, most do not cover political news. Those that do must submit to government controls. The most important medium is RT, a popular international platform that expands the Kremlin’s guidelines to the world in different languages.
On the other hand, Gusinsky was not the only oligarch to lose influence. Observing how the tycoons had been a problem during the Yeltsin administration, Putin aimed to dominate them.
Boris Berezovsky –lobbyist and owner of high-profile companies- and Mijaíl Khodorkovsky –oil giant- were two of the ‘big fish’ knocked down by the president. Accused of corruption, money laundering, the oligarchs suffered different fates. Some, imprisoned; others, forced into exile. A few died under suspicious conditions. The big conglomerates were left in the hands of men close to Putin.
war conflicts
During Vladimir Putin’s 20 years as Russian leader, the nation adopted a proxy style of warfare, under slogans that served as an excuse to invade new territory. There are three significant cases: the Chechen war of 2000, the conflict with Crimea in 2014 and the advance in Syria in 2018.
The first, described above, was considered by the international community as an internal Russian problem, which gave free rein to military advances. With the Ukrainian region the allegation was “to protect the interests of Russia”; while in Syria it was at the request of President Bashar al-Asad.
With non-linear procedures, Moscow was able to carry out its missions without raising alarm bells in the international community. With its low military profile, Putin’s Russia once again surprised the world by attacking Ukraine in the last few hours.
The current Russian president has been in the forefront of the country since 1999, linking an interim presidency, five years as prime minister and going through his fourth cycle as head of state, a position he will occupy until at least 2024. With a sober and unpredictable character in the international sphere, won the favor of the people by reinstating the nationalist feeling accompanied by the domain of local communication and with the opposition oligarchs out of the game.
“Whoever tries to stop us and create more threats to our country, our people, must know that Russia’s response will be immediate and will lead to such consequences that they have never faced in their history,” was one of the most shocking phrases of the announcement. that Vladimir Putin did when notifying that he would start military action on Ukraine.
Breaking the formal solemnity of the presidential announcements that usually include a podium, with conciliatory tones, an upright posture and a straight gaze, Putin, leaning back and with his hands on his desk, communicated with an authoritarian gaze the beginning of the war onslaught.
The president has based his speech on Russian nationalism and these two initial decades of the 21st century in Russia are characterized by the regime and the influence of his figure. Criticized abroad, he remains widely supported at home, where his opponents face fierce repression.
Putin’s origins
Far from the positions of influence and power that he occupies today, the story of Vladimir Putin begins in 1952 in a low-income family in Leningrad – present-day Saint Petersburg – during the post-war era.
He shared a communal apartment with his parents and two other brothers for the first 18 years of his life. The book ‘In the first person’, made up of interviews that he himself gave to three journalists in 2000, tells that the current president of Russia has a history where he had to experience poverty and food shortages.
In 1970 he began studying at the Law Faculty of the Leningrad State University, where he graduated with honors five years later. When he finished his academic training he was recruited by the Russian Committee for State Security, better known as the KGB.
After his training at the Espionage Academy, in 1985 he developed counterespionage tasks in the city of Dresden, in East Germany. However, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he returned to the Soviet Union to gradually enter the political world after meeting Anatoli Sobchak, his mentor.
The beginnings of his political career
Under Sobchak’s wing, Vladimir Putin entered politics only in 1991. With Sobchak’s victory as mayor of St. Petersburg, Putin was appointed chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, tasked with building bridges with partners abroad. His good work caused him to be entrusted with the Mayor’s Office when Sobchak was not present and later he was appointed Vice Mayor first.
His performance in municipal tasks led Putin to come into contact with Anatoli Chubais, a transcendental figure for understanding the current Russian economy. Together with Sobchak, they were the keys for Putin to enter the national sphere.
With the fall of Sobchak in Saint Peterbusgo in 1995, Putin migrated to Moscow to join President Boris Yeltsin’s team. Although he joined as deputy director of the Asset Management department, he quickly rose through the ranks. First, as deputy head of the Administration of the Control department. Later, director of the Federal Security Service, an entity that he occupied the space of the KGB.
In 1999 he assumed the leadership of the Government and at the end of that year, due to Yeltsin’s sudden resignation, he became interim successor, a position he confirmed after winning the March 2000 elections with almost 53% of the vote.
The 21st century, the era of Putin in Russia
Initially underestimated by the country’s powerful oligarchs, who considered him a malleable man who would end up favoring the interests of the tycoons, Putin quickly buried the claims of others to build a solid regime that 22 years later continues to enjoy the favor of the people.
He turned the Second Chechen War into a nationalist cause and a bastion of his election campaign. The victory over rebels and terrorist cells was the first sign of Putin’s ability to control armed conflicts. The war ended with the capture of the Chechen capital in February and the reestablishment of a Kremlin-led command in May 2000.
In his first government he had outstanding growth in economic matters by increasing the Gross Domestic Product by 72% and bringing down poverty by 50%, figures that gave him vital social support to win re-election in 2004.
Unable to go for a third term by the Russian Constitution of 1993, in 2007 he promoted the candidacy of his prime minister, Dmitri Medvedev, as successor. In a record vote, according to Borís Gryzlov -speaker of the Lower House-, Putin was appointed as ‘premier’ of Medvedev’s government with a large majority. In this cycle, a reform was enacted that extended presidential cycles from four to six years.
In 2012, Putin swept through a third stage by winning the first round; while in 2018 he obtained 70% to give rise to a fourth command as Russian head of state. Although the last elections had a low turnout.
Control of the media and the oligarchy
While the Western view sees Russia and Vladimir Putin as an authoritarian, aggressive regime with numerous human rights violations, inside the borders the Russian people see the figure of their president as a strong, dominant man committed to the cause of the Russian State. .
A few months after taking office in 2000, Putin took it upon himself to “clean” the media of opponents, something that surprised the oligarchs. In this way, he configured the information management in relation to his own needs.
For one thing, he got rid of critics like tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky. On the other, he lowered the line on what should be said –as in the case of the conflict in Chechnya-, exalting his figure and disrupting his popularity ratings, projecting the image of an implacable leader.
Gusinsky’s independent channel, NTV, was the first media giant to fall. With an audience of 100 million people and a reach of 70% of the territory, it was brought down along with other media.
Today, of Russia’s 3,000 television stations, most do not cover political news. Those that do must submit to government controls. The most important medium is RT, a popular international platform that expands the Kremlin’s guidelines to the world in different languages.
On the other hand, Gusinsky was not the only oligarch to lose influence. Observing how the tycoons had been a problem during the Yeltsin administration, Putin aimed to dominate them.
Boris Berezovsky –lobbyist and owner of high-profile companies- and Mijaíl Khodorkovsky –oil giant- were two of the ‘big fish’ knocked down by the president. Accused of corruption, money laundering, the oligarchs suffered different fates. Some, imprisoned; others, forced into exile. A few died under suspicious conditions. The big conglomerates were left in the hands of men close to Putin.
war conflicts
During Vladimir Putin’s 20 years as Russian leader, the nation adopted a proxy style of warfare, under slogans that served as an excuse to invade new territory. There are three significant cases: the Chechen war of 2000, the conflict with Crimea in 2014 and the advance in Syria in 2018.
The first, described above, was considered by the international community as an internal Russian problem, which gave free rein to military advances. With the Ukrainian region the allegation was “to protect the interests of Russia”; while in Syria it was at the request of President Bashar al-Asad.
With non-linear procedures, Moscow was able to carry out its missions without raising alarm bells in the international community. With its low military profile, Putin’s Russia once again surprised the world by attacking Ukraine in the last few hours.