From a retired KGB agent in 1990 to becoming the Acting President of Russia in 1999, Vladimir Putin’s rise was swift with few ...

According to Putin, the authorities were facing an urgent task - "to prevent the economy from collapsing and the public’s savings from being wiped out" MOSCOW, March 4. /TASS/. The 2008 global ...

DW looks at how EU, US and NATO relations with Putin's Russia have evolved.In August 1999, Vladimir Putin was appointed the ...

Dossier Center alleges Kabaeva’s relationship with Putin began as early as 2008, six years before his divorce from Lyudmila ...

Speaking seconds before the turn of the century, just before midnight on December 31, 1999, Putin vowed: ‘Freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom of the media, property rights – these ...

Igor Sechin, a long-standing ally of President Vladimir Putin, will be staying as head of Russia's largest oil producer ...

“Why stand in his way?” That strong leader was a political unknown: a former KGB officer named Vladimir Putin. This New Year’s Eve, when Putin addresses Russians, he will be marking a quarte ...

In 2024, President Vladimir Putin further cemented his grip on power and sought to counter Russia’s isolation from the West over the war in Ukraine. But he faced continuing challenges ...

Vladimir Putin might be able to capitalize on the adage of "never to waste a good crisis" as democracies of France, Germany, Romania and South Korea, which have been vocal opponents of his full ...

Dwindling sales of Russia's natural gas and oil show how energy exports will not help the growing economic problems that Vladimir Putin is facing, his former deputy energy minister has told Newsweek.