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President Vladimir Putin
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library
President Vladimir Putin
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library

President Vladimir Putin

Russian, 1952
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Place of BirthSaint Petersburg, Northwestern, Russia
Place ActiveMoscow, Central, Russia
Vladimir Putin is a Russian politician who began his career as an intelligence officer and has served as both the President and the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation two nonconsecutive times for each position. Putin served as Prime Minister for the second time from May 2008 until May 2012 when he began his second tenure as President a position he still currently holds.