Russia under Vladimir Putin
Since 1999, Vladimir Putin has continuously served as either President or Prime Minister of Russia.
Putin in 2024
Putin and Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov at a meeting in 2001
Vladimir Putin official portrait
Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush at the 2005 Moscow Victory Day Parade
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia. Putin has held continuous positions as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2012, and as president from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012. He is the longest-serving Russian or Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin.
Putin in 2024
Putin's father, Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin
Putin's mother, Maria Ivanovna Shelomova
Putin, c. 1960s