11/11/2022
Biography
🌹 VLADIMIR PUTIN 🌹
Vladimir Putin was born on October 7, 1952 in Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg, Russia) of the Russian Republic of the Soviet Union.
His father's name was Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin and mother's name was Maria Ivanovna Shelomova. His mother was a factory worker and father worked in the Soviet Navy. His father served in the submarine fleet in the 1930s and joined the enemy ambush squad during World War II. After the war he worked as a foreman in a factory. He was the third son of his father. His two elder brother died in infancy. In 1975 Putin graduated from Leningrad State University.
After receiving his bachelor's degree, he started working in the KGB. Here he continued to work till 1991. In a short time in the KGB he got the task of supervising foreigners and consular officers in Leningrad. Apart from Russian, Putin also German. It is believed that he learned English after becoming the President. He still takes the help of interpreters for formal talks. Putin first spoke in English in public for the first time in 2003 while expressing his condolences over the death of Queen Elizabeth II's mother during a state dinner at Buckingham Palace.
Putin quelled the turmoil in the Russian economy in the years following Yeltsin. The Russian economy saw tremendous recovery after Putin came to power, largely contributed by rising oil and gas prices. While leaving the presidency in the year 2008, he said that I am leaving Kra Malin, not Russia. And he kept his promise, even though no one expected him to become the Prime Minister at that time.Now the question arises whether he is a statesman of the modern era, in which the thinking of the Czar of the 17th century has been absorbed? Are they Stalinists in disguise of capitalists? "This is not the first time in two centuries that Russia has taken the world by surprise with its economy," wrote Die Welt's chief correspondent Michael Stuermer in the lead up to his book.