"A Russian statesman and politician. Current President of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the State Council of the Russian Federation and the Security Council of the Russian Federation; Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation since May 7, 2012. He previously held the position of President from May 7, 2000, to May 7, 2008, and held the position of Prime Minister of the Russian Federation in 1999-2000 and 2008 – 2012.

Graduated from the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University (LSU). He served as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, including 6 years in Dresden. After returning to Leningrad, he worked as an assistant to the LSU President, then as an adviser to Anatoliy Sobchak, the chairman of the Leningrad City Council. After his release from the KGB in 1991, he worked at the St. Petersburg City Hall. When Sobchak lost the gubernatorial elections in 1996, he moved to Moscow, where he was appointed deputy manager of the affairs of the president of the Russian Federation. PhD (Economy) (1997). After serving as the head of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation and as secretary of the Security Council, he headed the government in August 1999.

On December 31, 1999, after the resignation of Boris Yeltsin, he was appointed acting president. He was first elected president in March 2000, and then re-elected in 2004. In 2012, he was re-elected president in the 2012 elections, before which the term of office was increased from 4 to 6 years, and was re-elected in 2018. After the adoption of amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, he was re-elected in 2024.

During Vladimir Putin’s first term as president, Russia won the Second Chechen War. As prime minister under President Dmitry Medvedev, Putin oversaw the war with Georgia and reforms of the army and police. In 2014, under the leadership of Putin, Russia started a war with Ukraine by seizing and annexing Crimea, which belongs to Ukraine. Russia also interfered in the violence conflict that transformed into the war in Donbass. In 2015, Russia carried out a military operation in Syria.

On February 24, 2022, Putin escalated the war with Ukraine, unleashing a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. A number of countries have introduced additional comprehensive sanctions against Russia and against Putin personally.

On March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court in the Hague issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin on suspicion of illegal deportation of Ukrainian children during the invasion of Ukraine."