ASIN: B00J7XXM9W
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 72
*Includes pictures.*Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents. “There is no such thing as a former KGB man.” – Vladimir PutinDespite serving as the President of Russia from 2000 to 2008 following Boris Yeltsin’s regime, and again since the spring of 2012, remarkably little is known of enigmatic former KGB spy Vladimir Putin, other than the most mainstream life statistics and some minimally revealing fragments of memoirs and anecdotal observations. Putin has served as Russia’s Prime Minister as well, in a calculated political tango with Dmitri Medvedev for the purpose of overcoming term limits for the Russian presidency, thereby allowing him to remain a dominant politician well into the 21st century.Putin rose to power in 1999, when Boris Yeltsin dismissed his entire cabinet and fourth Prime Minister in seventeen months, Sergy Stapashin. ...
