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Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a summit with United States President Joe Biden on Wednesday in Geneva, Switzerland, after Biden met with the leaders of the Baltic States in the far east. from NATO to discuss the "threat posed by Russia," according to the White House.
Biden said on Sunday that he agreed with Putin that US-Russian relations are at a "low point," but told reporters that the US "is not looking for conflict" and added that there may be a "low point". "strategic doctrine" in which countries could agree to touch on areas such as the climate crisis.
Biden also defended the decision not to hold a joint press conference with Putin after their high-profile meeting, arguing that such an appearance would only serve to detract from the US goal of working toward a stable and predictable relationship with Russia.
Here's a look at the life of Vladimir Putin.
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The life of Russian President Vladimir Putin in pictures |
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Putin poses for a class photo in 1960. He was born on October 7, 1952 in what is now Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Putin dances with a classmate during a party in 1970.
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Putin, the latter, fights with a classmate in 1971. He then went on to study law at Leningrad State University, and in 1975 he joined the KGB, a Soviet-era spy agency.
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Putin poses with his parents, Vladimir and Maria, in 1985. A year earlier, he was selected to attend the Red Flag Intelligence Institute, where he learned German and English.
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From 1991 to 1994, Putin served as chairman of the St. Petersburg Foreign Relations Committee.
He also served as deputy mayor of the city.
Here, Putin together with the mayor of Saint Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak, in 1992.
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Putin quickly rose through the political ranks.
Here, she gives flowers to Russian President Boris Yeltsin during a farewell ceremony in Moscow in December 1999. Yeltsin, Russia's first democratically elected president, was resigning from office.
Putin, its prime minister, was appointed interim president until the elections, which Putin won several months later.
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President-elect Putin watches the Russian Northern Fleet conduct tactical exercises in the Barents Sea in April 2000.
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Putin shakes hands with British Prime Minister Tony Blair after a press conference in London in April 2000.
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Putin dances with a young woman in Kazan, Russia, while participating in summer festivities in June 2000.
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Putin and US President Bill Clinton meet in Moscow in June 2000.
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Putin is greeted by North Korean leader Kim Jong II after arriving in Pyongyang in July 2000. Russia is one of the few countries that has diplomatic relations with North Korea.
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Putin talks to his wife, Lyudmila, while posing in front of the Taj Mahal in India in October 2000. They were married for 30 years before their divorce was finalized in 2014. They have two daughters together.
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Putin listens to US President George W. Bush during a visit to the White House in November 2001. A few months later, the two signed a treaty to reduce and limit their strategic nuclear warheads.
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Putin watches honor guards march past the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during a wreath ceremony in Moscow in June 2003.
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Putin departs in an open carriage with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II during a welcoming ceremony in London in June 2003.
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Putin strokes his dog Kuni while addressing reporters with German Chancellor Angela Merker in January 2007. Merkel, reportedly fearful of dogs since one attacked her in 1995, was photographed looking clearly uncomfortable when Putin brought her big Lab. black to the meeting in Sochi, Russia.
Years later, he told the German newspaper Bild that he had no intention of intimidating Merkel.
"When I found out that she doesn't like dogs, of course I apologized," he said.
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By 2008, Putin had finished two terms and was constitutionally bound to resign as president.
But he stayed close to power, becoming prime minister after Dimitry Medvedev, in the center, was chosen as his successor.
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Putin shakes hands with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in November 2008.
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Putin participates in a judo training session at a St. Petersburg athletics school in December 2009. Putin has a black belt.
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Putin officiates a wrestling contest while visiting a youth education forum near Russia's Seliger Lake in August 2011.
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Putin and Medvedev attend a session of the State Council in Moscow in December 2011. A few months later, Putin was re-elected president and Medvedev became prime minister.
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During a demonstration in Moscow, tears run down Putin's face after he was elected president for a third term in March 2012.
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Putin plays with his dogs Yume, left, and Buffy at their home in Novo-Ogaryovo, Russia, in March 2013.
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Putin and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands share a toast after unveiling a plaque at the Hermitage Amsterdam in April 2013. It is a branch of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
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A topless protester yells at Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merker during a visit inside Almenia in April 2013. That month Putin defended his government's record on freedom of expression and rejected a claim that it uses "Stalinist methods. "to crack down on critics and activists.
Two international rights groups had issued scathing reports on Putin's presidency, saying the changes to the law had helped authorities clamp down on dissent.
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Putin fishes in Russia's Tuva region while on vacation in July 2013. For years, Putin has cultivated a populist image in the Russian media.
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Putin arrives to witness a military exercise in Russia's Leningrad region in March 2014.
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From left to right, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, Putin and Medvedev look at their watches before the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics in February 2014. Russia hosted the Olympics that year.
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Putin controls the puck during an ice hockey match between Russian amateur players and ice hockey stars at a festival in Sochi, Russia, in May 2014.
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US President Barack Obama toasts Putin at a luncheon in New York hosted by UN Secretary-General Ben Ki-moon in September 2015. "Amid the inevitable trials and setbacks, we never let us relax in our quest for progress and may we never abandon the quest for peace, "Obama said before clinking glasses.
"Health".
The two, bitterly at odds over issues in Ukraine and Syria, had a closed-door meeting later that day.
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Putin sits in a bathyscape as he dives into the Black Sea in August 2016. He dived underwater to see the remains of an ancient merchant ship that was found earlier that year.
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Putin exercises at a Black Sea resort in Sochi in August 2016.
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Putin shakes hands with US President Donald Trump as he meets on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Germany in July 2017. They spoke for more than two hours, discussing interference in the US elections and striking a deal to stop the violence in Syria.
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Putin and Medvedev speak during their visit to the New Jerusalem Orthodox Monastery outside the city of Istra, Russia, in November 2017.
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Putin shakes hands with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during their meeting in Sochi in May 2018.
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Putin with FIFA President Gianni Infantino on the left and French President Emmanuel Macron on the right after the 2018 World Cup final in Moscow.
France defeated Croatia in the final.
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Putin hands Trump a World Cup soccer ball after his July 2018 summit in Helsinki, Finland.
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Putin inspects the Sayano-Shushensky Nature Reserve in Siberia in August 2018.
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Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin-Salman attend the G20 summit in Buenos Aires in November 2018.
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Putin welcomes North Korean leader Kim Jong ahead of their talks in Vladivostok, Russia, in April 2019.
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Pope Francis exchanges gifts with Putin when the Russian president visited Vatican City in July 2019.
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Putin poses with the leaders of African countries who visited Sochi to attend a Russia-Africa Summit and Economic Forum in October 2019.
Personal
Date of birth:
October 7, 1952
Place of birth:
Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Russia
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Birth name:
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Marriage:
Lyudmila (Shkrebneva) Putin (July 28, 1983-2014, divorced)
Children:
Yekaterina and Maria
Education:
Leningrad State University, Law, 1975
Religion:
Orthodox Christian
Other facts
PHOTOS: The Adventures of Vladimir Putin
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Russian President Vladimir Putin plunged into the Black Sea from the port of Sevastopol to inspect the remains and relics of a Byzantine ship on August 17, 2015. Putin's visit caused annoyance in Kiev.
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Putin holds a Persian leopard cub in February 2014 in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
It was perhaps the biggest vote in the Olympic Games mascot selection when Putin said he wanted a leopard to represent the 2014 Winter Games.
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Putin holds a mince fish he caught in Russia's Tuba region of Siberia on July 20, 2013. (Credit: AP Photo / RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)
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Putin enjoying fishing while on vacation in Tuva on July 20, 2013. For years the Russian leader has cultivated a populist image in his country's media.
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Putin dives aboard Sea Explorer 5 near Gogland Island in the Gulf of Finland on July 15, 2013.
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The Russian president observes a bird during an experiment called "The Flight of Freedom" on September 5, 2012, in which he piloted a hang glider, helping to lead the flight of the birds.
This was part of a project to save this rare species.
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Putin takes part in a training session for young hockey players before the final of the “Golden Puck” tournament in Moscow on April 15, 2011.
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Putin rides a Harley-Davidson to an international motorcycle convention in southern Urania on July 14, 2010.
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The Russian president aims at a whale with a crossbow to take a part of its skin to be analyzed.
Olga Bay, August 25, 2010.
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Putin dives into an archaeological site in Phanagoria on August 10, 2011.
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Known for his love of martial arts, Putin throws a competitor into the air during a judo session in St. Petersburg on December 18, 2009.
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Putin while on vacation in southern Siberia in August 2009.
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Putin swims butterfly style during his 2009 vacation in the southern Siberian town of Kyzyl.
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Assisted by a Russian scientist, Putin fixes a satellite transmitter of a tiger during his visit to the forest reserve of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Far East on August 31, 2008.
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Putin carries a rifle in the Republic of Tuva on September 3, 2007.
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Putin, shirtless, fishes in the waters of the Yenisei River in Tuva on August 13, 2007. (Credit: DMITRY ASTAKHOV / AFP / Getty Images)
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The Russian president is seen inside the cockpit of a bombing jet at a military airport in August 2005.
It is black belt in judo.
He grew up in a community apartment shared by three families.
He served in the KGB as an intelligence officer before becoming involved in politics.
Chronology
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Joins the State Security Committee (KGB).
He is on the staff of the KGB First Directorate General for Foreign Intelligence and is assigned to supervise foreign visitors.
1984 - He
is selected to attend the Red Banner Intelligence Institute, where he learns German and English.
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Assigned to counterintelligence duties in Dresden, East Germany.
Reportedly oversees the loyalty of Soviet diplomats.
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Becomes deputy rector (dean) of international affairs at Leningrad State University.
He reportedly monitors student loyalty and follows foreigners.
1991 - He
returns to politics when he becomes an advisor to one of his mentors at law school, Anatoly Sobchak, who is running for mayor of Leningrad.
After Sobchak wins the elections, Putin is chosen to work in the city hall as chairman of the international relations committee.
Resign from the KGB.
1997 -
Putin is appointed deputy chief administrator of the Kremlin under the presidency of Boris Yeltsin.
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Head of the Federal Security Service (FSB).
1999 -
Secretary of the Security Council of Russia.
August 9, 1999:
Yeltsin appoints Putin prime minister.
December 31, 1999:
Yeltsin resigns amid scandal and Putin becomes interim president.
Grants Yeltsin immunity from prosecution.
March 26, 2000 - He
is elected President of Russia.
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May 7, 2000:
Putin takes office.
June 16, 2001 -
Putin meets with US President George W. Bush and the men hold a joint press conference.
Bush tells reporters that during the two-hour meeting, he was able to get a glimpse of Putin's soul.
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Putin and Bush sign the Moscow Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions, which requires each country to reduce its reserves of strategic nuclear warheads over the course of ten years.
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is re-elected after campaigning as an independent.
May 7, 2004 -
Putin is sworn in for his second term.
April 27, 2005:
He becomes the first Russian leader to visit Israel.
October 4-5, 2005:
Visit to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and announces greater cooperation between Russia and Great Britain to fight terrorism.
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September 5, 2006 -
Meets with South African President Thabo Mbeki during a Russian leader's first visit to sub-Saharan Africa.
December 19, 2007:
Named Person of the Year by Time magazine.
March 2, 2008 -
Dmitry Medvedev is elected President of Russia.
May 7, 2008 -
Just two hours after his presidential oath, Medvedev appoints Putin as prime minister.
August 2008:
Russia becomes involved in a military conflict with neighboring Georgia.
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Medvedev calls on the ruling United Russia party to back Putin as president in 2012. Putin in turn suggests that Medvedev should take over as prime minister if the party wins parliamentary elections in December.
March 4, 2012 -
Putin wins a third term as president, with just under 65% of the vote.
Critics question the results amid complaints of voter fraud.
May 7, 2012 -
Putin is sworn in under strict security measures.
The police detain hundreds of protesters.
December 14, 2012 -
US President Barack Obama signs the Magnitsky Act, which imposes financial and travel restrictions on people in Russia suspected of human rights violations.
The law is named after Sergey Magnitsky, a lawyer who died under mysterious circumstances in 2009 after finding evidence that Russian officials committed tax fraud.
December 28, 2012 -
In response to the Magnitsky Act, Putin enacts a bill that effectively prohibits US citizens from adopting Russian children.
The law also prohibits US-funded civic groups from operating in Russia.
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June 6, 2013 -
During an interview broadcast on state television, Putin and his wife, Lyudmila, announce that their marriage has ended.
September 11, 2013:
Putin publishes an op-ed in The New York Times on the Syrian Civil War.
March 2014:
Putin sends troops to Crimea after Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled amid violent protests.
August 6, 2014:
Putin signs a decree that bans imports of food and agricultural products from countries that have imposed sanctions against Russia.
Is Putin losing the support of the Russian youth?
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September 28, 2015:
Putin attends the United Nations General Assembly in New York and then meets with Obama.
The two leaders discuss Ukraine and Syria, according to senior US officials.
It is their first meeting in person since Russia's foray into Ukraine.
January 21, 2016 -
A UK investigation is released, presenting evidence suggesting that Putin approved the operation to kill former FSB spy Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.
25 de julio de 2016 – El FBI anuncia que ha iniciado una investigación sobre la piratería del sistema informático del Comité Nacional Demócrata. Aunque la declaración no indica que la agencia tenga en mente a un sospechoso o sospechosos en particular, los funcionarios estadounidenses le dicen a CNN que creen que el ciberataque está relacionado con Rusia.
1 de septiembre de 2016 – Durante una entrevista con Bloomberg News, Putin niega que el gobierno ruso haya estado involucrado en la piratería de correos electrónicos del Comité Nacional Demócrata.
December 30, 2016 -
Putin says Russia will not expel US diplomats in response to new sanctions from the Obama administration and the expulsion of 35 US diplomats.
He says he will instead try to rebuild relations with the incoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump.
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January 6, 2017 -
The Office of the US Director of National Intelligence publishes a declassified report concluding that Putin ordered an "influence campaign" aimed at hurting Hillary Clinton and helping Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
17 de enero de 2017 – En una conferencia de prensa, Putin dice que un expediente condenatorio sobre Trump es «falso» y rechaza las acusaciones de que los servicios de seguridad de su país han estado monitoreando al presidente electo de Estados Unidos.
7 de julio de 2017: Se reúne con Trump por primera vez al margen de la cumbre del G20 en Hamburgo, Alemania. Durante una reunión de dos horas, los hombres discutieron las acusaciones de intromisión rusa en las elecciones estadounidenses y la guerra en Siria, entre otras cosas. Horas después, vuelven a hablar de manera informal durante una cena con otros jefes de Estado.
July 30, 2017:
Putin announces that Russia is implementing a series of measures in response to a new sanctions bill approved by Trump.
It says 755 employees of US diplomatic missions in Russia will be removed from their posts.
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March 1, 2018 -
During his annual speech to Parliament, Putin brags about the country's nuclear capabilities and declares that Russian missiles can bypass air defense systems.
In a video simulation, nuclear warheads are shown flying through space and raining down on a peninsula that resembles the state of Florida.
18 de marzo de 2018: Putin gana las elecciones, con el 76,7% de los votos, según la Comisión Electoral Central de Rusia. A su retador más destacado, el líder de la oposición Alexey Navalny, se le prohibió postularse. Los observadores electorales internacionales dicen que los votos se contaron de manera ordenada, pero critican la cobertura de los medios estatales de la carrera presidencial, que promovió fuertemente a Putin.
7 de mayo de 2018: Jura como presidente por otros seis años.
July 16, 2018:
Putin and Trump meet in Helsinki and hold a joint press conference.
Trump refuses to endorse the US government's assessment that Russia interfered in the elections.
"I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today," says Trump.
November 28, 2018:
UK authorities assess that Putin approved a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy.
The attack in Salisbury, England, sickened Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia.
Another woman who came into contact with the poison died.
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25 de abril de 2019: El líder norcoreano, Kim Jong Un, se reúne con Putin en Vladivostok. La cumbre incluye conversaciones individuales, pero no incluye acuerdos firmados ni declaraciones conjuntas.
14 de mayo de 2019: Putin se reúne con el secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Mike Pompeo, quien dice que espera que Estados Unidos y Rusia puedan desarrollar una relación más cooperativa. Pompeo dice que quiere que los países trabajen juntos «para que nuestros dos pueblos y, francamente, el mundo, también sean más exitosos».
3 de julio de 2019: Putin firma una ley que suspende la participación de Rusia en el Tratado de Fuerzas Nucleares de Alcance Intermedio.
October 22, 2019:
Putin meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi and the two announce a comprehensive agreement on Syria in which Russian and Turkish troops will patrol the Turkish-Syrian border.
Kurdish forces have about six days to withdraw about 20 miles from the border.
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January 15, 2020:
Putin announces plans to push through reforms that would make his successor as president less powerful.
Authority would be redistributed giving the Russian Parliament and the prime minister's office greater influence.
The entire government resigns the same day.
April 5, 2021:
Putin signs constitutional amendments to the law that would allow him to seek two more six-year terms when his presidency ends in 2024.
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