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Vladimir Putin: The Controversial Life of Russia’s President by Charles River Editors is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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\*Includes pictures. \*Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading. \*Includes a table of contents. “There is no such thing as a former KGB man.” – Vladimir Putin Despite serving as the President of Russia from 2000 to 2008 following Boris Yeltsin’s regime, and again since the spring of 2012, remarkably little is known of enigmatic former KGB spy Vladimir Putin, other than the most mainstream life statistics and some minimally revealing fragments of memoirs and anecdotal observations. Putin has served as Russia’s Prime Minister as well, in a calculated political tango with Dmitri Medvedev for the purpose of overcoming term limits for the Russian presidency, thereby allowing him to remain a dominant politician well into the 21st century. Putin rose to power in 1999, when Boris Yeltsin dismissed his entire cabinet and fourth Prime Minister in seventeen months, Sergy Stapashin. Fearing that he might be prosecuted once out of office, the exhausted outgoing president drew upon the most loyal resource he had by bringing Lieutenant-Colonel Putin, a former Soviet intelligence agent, out of the remnants of the KGB and into the new intelligence network, the Federal Security Ser

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Charles River Editors
Publisher
Charles River Editors
Published
2014
Language
EN
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Historical Fiction, Biography, Memoir
Rating
3.6 / 5 (84 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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