Russian Ground Forces
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The Russian Ground Forces, also known as the Russian Army, are the land forces of the Russian Armed Forces.
A Russian airborne exercise in 2017
Sergey Shoygu meeting with Indian officials in 2018
The 3rd Spetsnaz Brigade on parade
A Russian soldier at a checkpoint in Kosovo in 2001
Vladimir Putin
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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's father, Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin
Putin's mother, Maria Ivanovna Shelomova
Putin, c. 1960s