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	Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich - MSN Encarta
		The success of Unity in the elections to the Duma in December strengthened Putin’s position in the government, and on December 25 a ground assault against Groznyy, the capital of Chechnya, was launched.
		Putin faced criticism over the failure of the Russian security services to detect the terrorist operation as well as over the resolution of the crisis, which involved the release of an opiate-based gas to knock out the terrorists and, partly as a result, caused the deaths of over 100 of the hostages.
		Putin defended the apparently anti-democratic reforms by arguing that they were necessary for the unity of Russia and to stifle the influence of criminal gangs.
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	Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin - Encyclopedia.com
		Putin quickly became popular with many Russians for his September invasion of Chechnya in response to terrorism and the invasion of Dagestan by Chechen militants.
		Putin moved quickly to reassert the central government's authority over the various republics, regions, and other administrative units and has sought to exert control over elements of the independent media.
		Putin was reelected in Mar., 2004, in an election that European observers criticized as unfair.
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	Vladimir Putin
		Putin has argued that he is the president of all Russians - including those such as the retirees who lost out in the post-Soviet transformation, and who understandably cling to symbols of the past.
		Putin surprised many Russian nationalists and even his own defense minister when, in the wake of the September 11 attacks in the United States, he agreed to the establishment of coalition military bases in Central Asia before and during the US-led Invasion of Afghanistan.
		Putin supported lifting of the sanctions in due course, arguing that the UN commission first be given a chance to complete its work on the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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	Vladimir Putin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Putin was against the war in Iraq the Iraq crisis of 2003.
		Putin supported lifting of the sanctions due course arguing that first UN commission be given a chance to its work on the search of weapons mass destruction in Iraq.
		Putin has careful not to be seen to be one faction or the other with his of Staff Alexander Voloshin identified as linked the Family.
	www.freeglossary.com /Vladimir_Putin (759 words)

	Personalities of Saint-Petersburg - Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich
		Vladimir V. Putin was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg since 1991) on October 7, 1952.
		His father, Vladimir S. Putin, was a factory foreman and a World War II veteran, a participant of Leningrad's defense against the Nazi Germany.
		Vladimir Putin is married with two daughters: Masha, 14, and Katya, 13.
	www.ceo.spb.ru /eng/capital/putin.v.v/index.shtml (599 words)

	Curriculum vitae of Vladimir Putin
		Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich was born in what was then Leningrad on Oct. 7, 1952.
		Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin died last August in his late 70s, the very week his son was appointed prime minister (his mother had died just a year and a half before).
		Putin quickly became Sobchak's indispensable man. He proved himself to be a loyal and highly effective manager, becoming "the gray cardinal" of the St. Petersburg government - the man to see if things needed to get done.
	www.xs4all.nl /~eurodos/docu/russia/putin_cv.htm (1494 words)

	Vladimir Vladimirovich™
		Vladimir Vladimirovich™ was in a process of deciding on a present for the President of Ukraine Victor Andreevich Yushenko, when suddenly a phone rang on the table.
		Vladimir Vladimirovich™ was staying at the small tribune with a pile of texts before him and couple of microphones on the both sides of a tribune.
		Vladimir Vladimirovich™ raised his eyes and noticed that the ground around him is covered by scattered pieces of burned wood and rusted pieces of roofing tin.
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	E-Notes: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in 1994: A Personal Recollection - FPRI
		Putin’s office on the second floor was next door to Mayor Sobchak in a long and sparsely furnished room.
		Putin politely excused himself and walked across the large room to his desk.
		Most of the U.S. press coverage of Vladimir Putin ignores his ten or more years in St. Petersburg, from the time he left the KGB in East Germany to return to St. Petersburg Law School for a degree in International Law and to become Assistant on External Affairs to the Principal of Leningrad State University.
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	Amazon.com: First Person: Books: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin,Nataliia Gevorkian,Natalia Timakova,A. V. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Putin admits that he didn't know much about Stalin's violent purges in the 1930s when he joined the KGB ("I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education").
		Putin was never a dissident, he was the ultimate Organization Man whose goal was a richer, happier, stronger and freer Russia.
		Putin likes beer and dislikes Chechen separatists; he is saddened by Stalin's excesses and proud of his own work in the KGB; he is sorry that the Soviet Union put Hungary and Czechoslovakia to the sword but delighted that today's glorious Russian Army is teaching the Chechens a lesson.
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	PUTIN OBSERVED: Yeltsin's Choice by GWENDOLYN STEWART
		Most frequently, Putin's rise is casually attributed to "The Family," or one or another group of "oligarchs," or perhaps the military....
		Vladimir Putin has become notorious for declaring that he would rub out the bandits in the john; he called the Chechen Raduyev a beast.
		She is currently writing RUSSIA REDUX, a crossover book, part political analysis, part travel-memoir: Imagine wandering over the largest country on earth, not in the train of a railroad, but in the train of one of the most powerful and contradictory men on earth.
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~gestewar/putinobserved.html (1590 words)

	PUTIN, Vladimir Vladimirovich [2000-] @ Archontology.org: presidents, kings, prime ministers, biography, database
		In August 1996 Putin was called to Moscow to be appointed deputy office manager of the President of the Russian Federation.
		On the eve of the resignation of the government headed by Sergey Stepashin, Putin was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Government (9 Aug 1999) and the same day was named Acting Chairman.
		According to constitutional provisions, Putin as head of government temporarily assumed the duties of President after the resignation of Yeltsin (31 Dec 1999).
	www.archontology.org /nations/rus/rus_state2/putin2.php (355 words)

	Vladimir Putin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Putin is a practicing member of the Russian Orthodox Church, led by Patriarch Alexius II.
		Putin was appointed Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation by President Boris Yeltsin in August 1999, making him Russia's fifth prime minister in less than eighteen months.
		While President Putin is criticized as an autocrat by some of his Western counterparts[3] [4], his relationships with US President George W. Bush, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, French President Jacques Chirac, and the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are reported to be friendly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vladimir_Vladimirovich_Putin (5001 words)

	Putin - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, born in 1952, Russian politician who became the second democratically elected president of Russia in 2000.
		Yeltsin named Vladimir Putin, the 46-year-old head of Russia's domestic intelligence service, as Stepashin's replacement, and said he wanted Putin to succeed him as...
		Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first democratically elected president, resigned unexpectedly on December 31, 1999, and named Prime Minister Vladimir Putin acting president.
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	Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Putin Biography - Biography.com
		Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, he retired from the KGB with the rank of colonel, and returned to Leningrad as a supporter of Anatoly Sobchak (1937–2000), a liberal politician.
		In 1998 he was appointed deputy head of management in Boris Yeltsin's presidential administration, in charge of the Kremlin's relations with the regional governments.
		In December 1999 Yeltsin resigned as president, appointing Putin acting president until official elections were held (in early 2000).
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	Amazon.com: Vladimir Putin (Biography (a & E)): Books: Thomas Streissguth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Vladimir Putin may not be a subject with instant appeal for YA readers, but the changes through which he has lived certainly make for a wonderful history lesson.
		Advised to study law, Putin found his path to a political career that would take several detours over the decades as the former Soviet Union changed ideologically and socially.
		VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH PUTIN WAS THE THIRD son born to Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin and Mariya Ivanovna Putin.
	www.amazon.com /Vladimir-Putin-Biography-Thomas-Streissguth/dp/0822523744 (906 words)

	Vladimir Putin Summary
		When Vladimir Putin (born 1952) was appointed prime minister of Russia, very little was known about his background.
		Vladimir PutinPresident (pronounced "vlad-EE-mir POO-teen") "The building of a democratic state is far from complete.
		Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin(help ·info) (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин, Vladímir Vladímirovich Pútin; born October 7, 1952) is a Russian politician, and the current President of the Russian Federation.
	www.bookrags.com /Vladimir_Putin (169 words)

	President
		In 1975, Putin graduated from the law department of the Leningrad State University.
		After his return to Leningrad, Putin became an aide to the vice-president of the Leningrad State University in charge of international issues.
		In 1997-1998, Putin worked as head of the president's Main Audit Directorate and presidential deputy chief of staff.
	www.russianembassy.org /RUSSIA/President.HTM (220 words)

	CNN.com - Putin urges voters to back Bush - Oct 18, 2004
		Putin, speaking Central Asian Cooperation Organization summit in Tajikistan Monday, made his most overt comments of support so far for the re-election of Bush for a second term.
		Putin noted that American voters will not decide the election just on Iraq.
		President Putin made it clear Russia remained opposed to the war in Iraq.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/10/18/putin.iraq (309 words)

	AllRefer.com - Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biographies
		Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin[vludEm´yir vludEm´´yir´uvyich pOO´tyin] Pronunciation Key, 1952–;, Russian government official and political leader, b.
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	Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin — Infoplease.com
		Putin quickly became popular with many Russians for his September invasion of
		Although Putin has been, in the main, popular with the Russian public, his reputation suffered when he was perceived to have acted belatedly after the Russian submarine
		Putin: Ally or terrorist?: Counting Vladimir Putin as an ally against terrorism ignores his career in the murderous KGB/FSB and his......
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	President of Russia \| Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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		Vladimir Putin was born in Leningrad on October 7, 1952.
		Putin was assigned to work in the KGB.
	www.kremlin.ru /eng/articles/V_Putin_eng.shtml (284 words)

	Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin — FactMonster.com
		Putin quickly became popular with many Russians for his September invasion of
		Although Putin has been, in the main, popular with the Russian public, his reputation suffered when he was perceived to have acted belatedly after the Russian submarine
		Current Government Officials: Russia - World—Heads of State Heads of State and Cabinet Members Russia President Vladimir...
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	Scraps of Moscow: Vladimir Vladimirovich™
		Once upon a time, Vladimir Vladimirovich™ Putin was sitting in his Kremlin office and waxing his Presidential skis.
		All of a sudden, the tall doors of the Presidential office burst open, and in rushed the deputy chief of Vladimir Vladimirovich™'s administration, Vladislav Yur'evich Surkov.
		"What are we going to do?" fretted Vladimir Vladimirovich™.
	scrapsofmoscow.blogspot.com /2007/02/vladimir-vladimirovich.html (367 words)

	Anecdote - Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin - Black Belt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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		In 2000, former KGB agent Vladimir Putin was sworn in as President of Russia.
		Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1952-) Russian politician, President of Russia (2000-)
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