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| | '''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 heavily 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 anti-imperialist in nature, defending 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> | |
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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.
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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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| == References == | | == References == |
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| [[Category:Current heads of state]] | | [[Category:Current heads of state]] |
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