he served in the KGB for 15 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. From 1990 to 1996 he held several posts in the Leningrad (from 1991, St. Petersburg) city
In that position, he was in charge of the Kremlin's relations with the regional governments. Shortly afterward, Putin was appointed head of the Federal Security Service, an arm of the former KGB, as well as head of Yeltsin’s Security Council. In August 1999, Yeltsin dismissed his prime ...
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How did Putin come to take such an iron grip on Russia? This new series considers his rise to power, beginning by offering us a portrait of a schoolyard fighter who grew up to be a spy – and latterly the head the organisation that superseded the KGB, the FSB. ...
Putin held several positions throughout his political career. For example, in 1990, during his Saint Petersburgh administration, he was appointed advisor on international affairs to the Major of Leningrad, Anatoly Sobchak. In 1991, he was appointed the head of the External Relations Committee and ...
Kabayeva has been largely out of sight since quitting as an MP in Putin's United Russia party last September, when she took over as head of a major media conglomerate. 自去年九月卡巴耶娃辞去普京麾下统一俄罗斯党议员一...
“You could find all this childish, reprehensible; you could shake your head at it,” she wrote of Putin’s manipulative style. “But that didn’t make Russia disappear from the map.” More to Read
such as occurred after Stalin died in 1953 or after Khrushchev was deposed in a coup in 1964. I can imagine such a leadership being comprised of Sergei Lavrov (foreign minister), Sergei Shoigu (defense minister) and Elvira Nabiullina (central bank head), for example. The second, less likel...
It added 63 of the drones had been "lost" - referring to the Ukrainian military using electronic warfare to redirect them. In a post on X, Ukraine's head of the presidential office Andriy Yermak wrote "this is what Putin's ceasefire looks like". ...
“President Putin even used my very strong Campaign motto of, ‘COMMON SENSE.’ We both believe very strongly in it,” Trump wrote, suggesting the former KGB agent on the other end of the line had chosen his words carefully to appeal to the US leader. The Kremlin said Trump and Putin...