Politics, Law & GovernmentWorld LeadersPresidents & Heads of States inVladimir Putin Also known as: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Written by Michael Ray Michael Ray is an assistant managing editor who has worked at Britannica since 2003. In addition to leading the Geography and History team, he ov...
The 1996 elections for the Russian presidency were not, in the end, a final or comprehensive test of the durability of Russian democracy. That the elections took place at all was important, of course, but they ended in continuity rather than change. The incumbent was returned to office, and...
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Kyiv's foreign ministry said today that Ukraine also expected an eventual meeting between Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. "We are waiting for a meeting between our presidents because for us the main thing is to work together with America," ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi said. 10 Jan20:15 ...
In the wake of this, the Soviet Union dissolved against Gorbachev's wishes and he resigned. After leaving office, he launched his Gorbachev Foundation, became a vocal critic of Russian Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, and campaigned for Russia's social-democratic movement. Widel...
Putin, 71, has been in power as president or prime minister since 1999 and is seeking another six-year term. With Navalny serving prison sentences totalling more than 30 years and other leading Kremlin critics either behind bars or outside the country beca...
Shoigu, a gruff hardliner who trained as a civil engineer, has held top jobs in Russia's power structures continuously since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and served as emergencies minister under late president Boris Yeltsin. ...
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” Independent Chechnya and its legally elected presidents Dzhokhar Dudayev and Aslan Maskhadov were subsequently supported byValeria Novodvorskaya. Boris Nemtsov tried to stop the war by circulating a petition [which was allegedlysignedby a million Russians—TRR]. But there was no grassroots ...
Byelorussia Presidents of Belarus StanislausShushkevich 1991-1994 MjetsheslavJ. Gryb 1994 Alexandr R.Lukashenko 1994-present Known as "White Russia," "White Ruthenia," "Byelorussia," Белоруссия (i.e. "White Russia"), and now Belarus, Беларусь (i.e. "White Russia"...