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Vladimir Putin

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He is the longest-serving Russian president since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Putin is the 24th most popular politician (down from 23rd in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Russia (up from 5th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Politician.

Vladimir Putin is most famous for being the president of Russia and for being a former KGB agent.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vladimir Putin ranks 24 out of 19,576. Before him are Kublai Khan, Qin Shi Huang, George VI, Franz Joseph I of Austria, Louis XVI of France, and Andrew Jackson. After him are Charles I of England, Charlemagne, George V, James VI and I, Commodus, and Edward VI of England.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Vladimir Putin ranks 1. After him are Patrick Swayze, Vajiralongkorn, Harvey Weinstein, Liam Neeson, Steven Seagal, Orhan Pamuk, David Hasselhoff, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Park Geun-hye, Roberto Benigni, and Salome Zourabichvili.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Putin ranks 4 out of 3,761. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Immanuel Kant (1724), and Vladimir Lenin (1870). After him are Leo Tolstoy (1828), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), Igor Stravinsky (1882), Yuri Gagarin (1934), and Dmitri Mendeleev (1834).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Vladimir Putin ranks 2. Before him are Vladimir Lenin (1870). After him are Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), Peter the Great (1672), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Yuri Andropov (1914), Alexander II of Russia (1818), and Alexander III of Russia (1845).

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