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| {{Infobox politician
| | '''Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin''' (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is serving as the current [[President of Russia]] since 2012, previously being in the office from 1999 until 2008. He was also [[Prime Minister of Russia|prime minister]] from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. As of 2021, Putin is the second-longest serving European president, after [[Alexander Lukashenko]] of [[Belarus]]. |
| |name=Vladimir Putin
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| |native_name=Владимир Путин|image_size=200|birth_date={{birth date and age|1952|10|7}}
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| |birth_place=[[Leningrad]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]] (now [[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russian Federation|Russia]])
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| |nationality=Russian
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| |website=[https://eng.putin.kremlin.ru/ eng.putin.kremlin.ru]
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| |political_party=[[All-Russia People's Front]]
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| |image=Putin.png}}
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| '''Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin''' (born October 7, 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is serving as the current [[President of Russia]] since 2012, previously being in the office from 1999 until 2008. He was also [[Prime Minister of Russia|prime minister]] from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. As of 2023, Putin is the second-longest serving European president, after [[Alexander Lukashenko]] of [[Belarus]].
| | Putin is demonized by the [[Western press]] for his economic policies which threaten the Western global monopoly on the oil markets, as well as his foreign policy which is aganist [[NATO]] in general. His regime has defended the sovereignty of states (such as Syria<ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bashar-assad-vladimir-putin-russia-donald-trump-syria-peace-initiatives/ Assad thanks Putin for Russia's efforts "to save our country"]</ref><ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/russian-president-says-his-generals-saved-he-hugs-bashar-al-assad-717973 Russian President Says His Generals Saved Syria as He Hugs Bashar al-Assad]</ref>, Venezuela<ref>[https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Russia-and-Venezuela-Cooperate-in-the-Defense-Sector-20210622-0019.html Russia and Venezuela Cooperate in the Defense Sector]</ref>) against Western [[regime change]] efforts. |
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| Putin is demonized by the [[Bourgeois media|Western press]] for his economic policies which threaten the Western global monopoly on the oil markets, as well as his foreign policy which is against [[NATO]] in general. His regime has defended the sovereignty of states (such as [[Syrian Arab Republic|Syria]]<ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bashar-assad-vladimir-putin-russia-donald-trump-syria-peace-initiatives/ Assad thanks Putin for Russia's efforts "to save our country"]</ref><ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/russian-president-says-his-generals-saved-he-hugs-bashar-al-assad-717973 Russian President Says His Generals Saved Syria as He Hugs Bashar al-Assad]</ref> and [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]])<ref>[https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Russia-and-Venezuela-Cooperate-in-the-Defense-Sector-20210622-0019.html Russia and Venezuela Cooperate in the Defense Sector]</ref> against Western [[regime change]] efforts. Putin's popularity is decreasing, but his approval rate remains above 75%.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Larry C. Johnson|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]|title=Star CIA Analysts Are Out of Touch With Reality When it Comes to Russia|date=2022-11-26|url=https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/11/26/star-cia-analysts-are-out-of-touch-with-reality-when-it-comes-to-russia/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221127032053/https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/11/26/star-cia-analysts-are-out-of-touch-with-reality-when-it-comes-to-russia/|archive-date=2022-11-27|retrieved=2022-11-29}}</ref>
| | During his first tenure as president, the [[Russian economy]] grew for eight straight years, with [[GDP]] measured by [[Purchasing power parity|purchasing power]] increasing by 72%, real incomes increased by a factor of 2.5, real wages more than tripled; unemployment and poverty more than halved and the Russians' self-assessed life satisfaction rose significantly.<ref name="challenges_p12">{{cite book|first1=Sergei|last1=Guriev|title=Russia After the Global Economic Crisis|last2=Tsyvinski|first2=Aleh|publisher=Peterson Institute for International Economics; Centre for Strategic and International Studies; New Economic School|year=2010|isbn=978-0-88132-497-6|editor=Anders Åslund|pages=12–13|chapter=Challenges Facing the Russian Economy after the Crisis<!-- |pages=9–39 -->|editor2=Sergei Guriev|editor3=Andrew C. Kuchins}}</ref> This contributes to Western demonization, since the West had profited from the 1990's "Shock Therapy" of mass privatizations, which Putin has reversed. |
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| During his first tenure as president, the [[Russian economy]] grew for eight straight years, with [[GDP]] measured by [[Purchasing power parity|purchasing power]] increasing by 72%, real incomes increased by a factor of 2.5, real wages more than tripled; unemployment and poverty more than halved and the Russians' self-assessed life satisfaction rose significantly.<ref name="challenges_p12">{{Citation|author=Sergei Guriev, Aleh Tsyvinski, Anders Åslund, Andrew C. Kuchins|title=Russia After the Global Economic Crisis|publisher=Peterson Institute for International Economics; Centre for Strategic and International Studies; New Economic School|year=2010|isbn=978-0-88132-497-6|pages=12–13|chapter=Challenges Facing the Russian Economy after the Crisis}}</ref> This contributes to Western demonization, since the West had profited from the 1990s "Shock Therapy" of mass privatizations, which Putin has reversed.
| | In 2022, Putin gained a large amount of infamy among the Western Media for his [[2022 Russo-Ukrainian conflict|S''pecial Military Operation'']] in [[Ukraine]], with many of the reports about the ''Special Military Operation'' being exaggerated or even fabricated. |
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| In 2022, Putin gained a large amount of infamy among bourgeois media for the [[2022 Russo-Ukrainian conflict]], with many of the reports about the conflict being exaggerated or even fabricated. | |
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| == Criticism ==
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| === Anti-communism ===
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| Putin opposes [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]'s policy of [[Nation|national]] [[self-determination]] and criticized the [[Bolsheviks]] for creating a separate [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919–1991)|Ukrainian]] state.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]|title=PSL statement: NATO expansion must end to guarantee peace in Ukraine|date=2022-02-22|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-statement-nato-expansion-must-end-to-guarantee-peace-in-ukraine/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206144042/https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-statement-nato-expansion-must-end-to-guarantee-peace-in-ukraine/|archive-date=2022-12-06|retrieved=2023-02-04}}</ref>
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| === Homophobia ===
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| Putin supported a 2013 bill that discriminated against [[LGBT+|LGBTQ+]] people and criminalized activism for LGBTQ+ equality.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Stewart Stout|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=Russia: The struggle against anti-LGBTQ repression|date=2013-08-27|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/russia-the-struggle-against-html/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925043302/https://www.liberationschool.org/russia-the-struggle-against-html/|archive-date=2022-09-25|retrieved=2023-01-14}}</ref>
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