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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 is the president of Russia. Putin has held continuous positions as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2012, and as president from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Putin has received more than 74,760,199 page views. His biography is available in 222 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 203 in 2019). Vladimir Putin is the 23rd most popular politician (down from 12th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Russia (down from 3rd 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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  • 75M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 85.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 222

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Breitbart News
Vladimir Putin Meets Bashar Assad in Moscow, Seeking to Reconcile Syria with Jihadist Neighbors
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin welcomed longtime Syrian dictator Bashar Assad to Syria on Wednesday evening, holding talks he claimed covered "the entire range of our relations" but focused specifically on the current situation in the Middle East. The post …
Frances Martel, Frances Martel
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Syrian President Bashar Assad in the Kremlin
Russian President Vladimir Putin met President Bashar Assad of Syria in the Kremlin, video distributed by the Kremlin press service on Thursday showed.
The Associated Press
Thursday, July 25, 2024
ABC News
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Syrian President Bashar Assad in the Kremlin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in the Kremlin
The Associated Press
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Haaretz
A major wave of liberal immigration has hit Israel, courtesy of Vladimir Putin
Young, educated and liberal, they fled Putin's Russia in search of freedom, and reached Israel in large numbers. Will Israel give them sufficient reason to stay? And how might they influence the country's character? The story of the new wave of immigration
Liza Rozovsky
Thursday, July 25, 2024

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vladimir Putin ranks 23 out of 19,576. Before him are David, Henry Kissinger, Commodus, Otto von Bismarck, Andrew Jackson, and Elizabeth I of England. After him are Louis XVI of France, Benito Mussolini, Hammurabi, Mao Zedong, Cicero, and Huang Xianfan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Vladimir Putin ranks 1. After him are Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson, Harvey Weinstein, Orhan Pamuk, Steven Seagal, Roberto Benigni, Vajiralongkorn, Park Geun-hye, Emomali Rahmon, Mickey Rourke, and Robert Zemeckis.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Putin ranks 5 out of 3,761. Before him are Immanuel Kant (1724), Vladimir Lenin (1870), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), and Leo Tolstoy (1828). After him are Yuri Gagarin (1934), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Anton Chekhov (1860), Peter the Great (1672), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840).

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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 Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Peter the Great (1672), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), Alexander I of Russia (1777), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), and Yuri Andropov (1914).

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