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Vladimir Putin Владимир Путин | |
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| Born | October 7, 1952 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Political party | All-Russia People's Front |
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Владимир Владимирович Путин; born October 7, 1952) is a Russian right-wing 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 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 against NATO in general. His regime has defended the sovereignty of states (such as Syria[1][2] and Venezuela)[3] against Western regime change efforts. Putin's popularity is decreasing, but his approval rate remains above 75%.[4]
During his first tenure as president, the Russian economy grew for eight straight years, with GDP measured by 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.[5] 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 bourgeois media for the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian conflict, with many of the reports about the conflict being exaggerated or even fabricated.
Criticism[edit | edit source]
Anti-communism[edit | edit source]
In 2000, Putin was quoted as saying, "Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains."[6]
Putin opposes Lenin's policy of national self-determination and criticized the Bolsheviks for creating a separate Ukrainian state.[7]
Homophobia[edit | edit source]
Putin supported a 2013 bill that discriminated against LGBTQ+ people and criminalized activism for LGBTQ+ equality.[8]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Assad thanks Putin for Russia's efforts "to save our country"
- ↑ Russian President Says His Generals Saved Syria as He Hugs Bashar al-Assad
- ↑ Russia and Venezuela Cooperate in the Defense Sector
- ↑ Larry C. Johnson (2022-11-26). "Star CIA Analysts Are Out of Touch With Reality When it Comes to Russia" CovertAction Magazine. Archived from the original on 2022-11-27. Retrieved 2022-11-29.
- ↑ Sergei Guriev, Aleh Tsyvinski, Anders Åslund, Andrew C. Kuchins (2010). Russia After the Global Economic Crisis: 'Challenges Facing the Russian Economy after the Crisis' (pp. 12–13). Peterson Institute for International Economics; Centre for Strategic and International Studies; New Economic School. ISBN 978-0-88132-497-6
- ↑ Michael Wines, "PATH TO POWER: A political profile.; Putin Steering to Reform, But With Soviet Discipline," New York Times, February 20, 2000; "Vladimir Putin 1952– Russian statesman, President of the Russian Federation 2000–8 and since 2012," in Oxford Essential Quotations, 5th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2017).
- ↑ "PSL statement: NATO expansion must end to guarantee peace in Ukraine" (2022-02-22). Liberation News. Archived from the original on 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2023-02-04.
- ↑ Stewart Stout (2013-08-27). "Russia: The struggle against anti-LGBTQ repression" Liberation School. Archived from the original on 2022-09-25. Retrieved 2023-01-14.