Russian Prime Minister (2008 -), former President of the Russian Federation (2000-2004, 2004-2008 ) was born on October 7, 1952 in Leningrad, Russian. His father, Vladimir Putin Spiridonovich, was born in 1911 in St. Petersburg, where his family moved to the beginning of the First World War the village Pominovo Tver region. His mother, Maria Ivanovna Putin (nee Shelomova ) was born in the neighboring village district, also in 1911. Since the beginning of the war the father went to the front as a volunteer, he served in the NKVD destruction battalions. The mother at the beginning of the blockade with his brother Ivan Shelomova, staff officer of the Leningrad military fleet, the former head of the 7th Branch of the 1st control GUPTA NKVD (former - Chief of Staff of the 62nd Vladivostok Maritime Border Detachment of the NKVD of the USSR) moved from Peterhof . Paternal grandfather, Spiridon Ivanovich Putin worked as a chef all my life (first in Gorki outside Moscow, ... When Lenin died, my grandfather moved to one of Stalin's dachas of Stalin, too... and survived at the end of life in retirement, he lived and cooked in a holiday home in the Moscow City Party Committee Elias ... Conversations with Vladimir Putin. M. ... 7 ). In the 50s. In. Putin, Sr. served in the militia of the Leningrad Railway Car Building Plant Protection Yegorov, and later worked as a foreman on the same plant, was secretary of the party bureau of plant. M. Putin worked as a nurse after the war, a janitor, receptionist at the bakery goods, watchman, charwoman in the laboratory.
Both parents died from cancer, his mother - at the beginning of 1999, father - in August 1999, buried in the cemetery of St. Seraphim at the Leningrad. There are apocryphal version of the origin in. Putin, according to which he was not born in 1952, and in 1950, his real parents were Vera Putin, 1926. p. , A native of g. Ocher Perm region and a Platon Privalov, about 1960 children were given first maternal grandparents - Michael and Anne Illarionovich Ilyinichna Putin, and then their distant relative, St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin Spiridonovich; In. H. Putin (the husband Osepashvili ) lives in rural Georgia in Metekhi (which in itself. Putin lived with 3 to 9 years ), it has, besides the president, has three children from her husband's Georgian. (Nota Bene, № 1, February 2004, pp.. 152-160 ). From 1960 to 1968. In. Putin was in high school eight-year - N193 on the channel Griboyedov in Leningrad. He was Chairman of the Board of the Pioneer unit. After the 8th grade went to secondary school N281 in the Soviet Lane ( special school with a chemical gradient -based Institute of Technology ), graduating in 1970. In 1970 he joined the Department of International Law Department of Leningrad State University (LSU) Zhdanov, who graduated in 1975. Thesis: ... Ph.D. in Economics ( Thesis, June 27, 1997 secure in the St. Petersburg Mining University, ... St. Petersburg and Leningrad region) ... In March, 2006. American Sunday Times wrote that the study of economic abstracts used by Putin in the master's thesis, showed that most of them were copied from the work of researchers of the University of Pittsburgh, made in 1978. According to Clifford Gaddy of the Brookings Institution, 16 out of 20 pages, which begins a key part of Putin's work were either copied ... While studying at the University met with Anatoly Sobchak, who as an assistant to the department for some time kept him lessons on business law. At LSU joined the Communist Party remained a member of the Communist Party until its ban in August 1991. In 1976 he graduated from the short-term training courses in the operational staff of the Leningrad Okhta (... Dzerzhinsky in Moscow Varsonofevskom Lane in Moscow in 1985. - A one-year faculty of the Red Banner Institute. SW. In. Andropov (former ... After graduating from Leningrad University in 1975 was sent to the distribution of the KGB. In 1975 about 5 months he worked in the secretariat of the Leningrad KGB, in the Second Chief Directorate ( counterintelligence). From February to July 1976 he studied at the refresher courses rapid composition of the ... After that, six months before the start of 1977. worked in the Leningrad KGB, in his own words, ... 47), and the memoirs of his colleagues - in the ... While working in the ... On his return to Leningrad, ... In 1984, having received the rank of Major, was sent to Moscow's Red Banner Institute (CI ) of the name N. A. Andropov, where he studied from July 1984 to July 1985 under the pseudonym of ... The institute specializing in German-speaking countries (Austria, Switzerland, Germany and the GDR - the 4th Division of the KGB of the USSR ), was the foreman of department. Upon graduation, the KGB was in August 1985 sent to the office of the KGB in the GDR, where until the early. 1990. worked in Dresden. He was engaged in the activities of a potential adversary disinformation. On his return from the GDR was in February 1990. assistant rector of Leningrad State University for International Affairs, where he remained until his appointment as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee (FAC) of the St. Petersburg City Hall in the summer of 1991. In 1990, along with LSU Provost for International Affairs Yuri Molchanov participated in a joint venture company Procter and LSU. After Provost SW. Molchanov's renewed acquaintance with a. Sobchak. Being in May 1990 the chairman of the Leningrad City Council and. Sobchak took in. Putin to his post of adviser on international affairs, and after his election ( June 12, 1991 ), mayor of St. Petersburg, one of his first orders was appointed in June 28. Putin, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee (FAC) of the St. Petersburg city government. After elimination of the Emergency Committee in. Putin has signed a letter of resignation from the authorities at the beginning of 1992 he was transferred to the existing pool of the KGB, receiving the rank of lieutenant colonel stock. In late 1991 - early 1992. In. Putin initiated the food supply of the St. Petersburg from abroad in exchange for exports. December 4, 1991, he signed a letter with such a proposal to the Committee on External Economic Relations ( KVES ) Since the Ministry of Economy, ... Putin in St. Petersburg mayor's office asked for a quota of $ 124 million dollars in exports of raw materials ( wood, oil, non-ferrous metals, as well as 14 tonnes of rare earth metals - tantalum, niobium, gadolinium, cerium, zirconium, yttrium, scandium, ytterbium ), and he heads . 07. 2001 ). February 1, 1992 President Peter Aven KVES have endorsed a letter in. Putin, 25 March 1995 the Ministry of Economy has provided the FAC St. Petersburg to sign export licenses. Even before the official approval in. Putin has signed four documents: two licenses - the company ... petroleum products in exchange for meat, potatoes and sugar and order stock company ... cubic meters of wood in exchange for milk powder. However, the majority of licenses and contracts ( including at least 13 years, designed to obtain official permission Ministry of Economy ), signed on behalf of the FAC is not in itself. Putin and his deputy, Alexander Anikin. In four cases were drawn up on behalf of FAC with the wording ... In. ... T. Anikin. January 10, 1992 to address the 13th session of the Petrograd Soviet, a special parliamentary working group to investigate the activities of the FAC, led by Marina Salier ( Chairman of the Petrograd Committee for Food ) and Yury Gladkov. M. Salier says that the raw materials in tons. h. containing rare earth elements, were sold with the authorization of the CF abroad ... In particular, in agreement with the FAC Russian-German joint venture ... 997 kg of rare metals, the price of 1 kg of scandium was set to 72.6 DM, while the price of scandium in the world market in 2000 times higher - 150 thousand. DM ( Himself In. Putin did not sign the treaty - it is signed by one of his deputies). Prices of other rare metals were reduced at 7, 10 or 20 times. In contracts for firms FAC envisaged fees. The contract on January 3, 1992 with the MP, ... Putin, commissions accounted for 25 % (540. 000 ), in agreement with the ... In. ... T. Anikin, commissions accounted for 50 % (5. 983. $ 900 ). The Working Group M. Salie recommended to remove the mayor in. Putin's from his position and handed the materials of its investigation to the city prosecutor's office and the General Accounting Office of the Presidential Administration. The results of the investigation was officially notified as Chairman KVES P. Aven. The Prosecutor's Office in criminal activity in. Putin, not seen, although the city prosecutor Vladimir Eremenko, and sent a. Sobchak idea of the ... Chairman KVES P. Aven also did not challenge the licenses issued by the St. Petersburg FAC. Nevertheless, the deputy in. And Putin. Anikin was forced to leave his post, and concluded under the auspices of the In. Putin transaction was canceled. As chairman of the FAC in. Putin personally oversaw the creation in 1992 of the St. Petersburg Currency Exchange, the signing of the 1992 Treaty on the City Hall advising a major international accounting firm KPMG, an investment project for the organization of production in St. Petersburg, ... Contributed to the coming into the city a number of German companies - in particular, with the assistance has been opened BNP-Drezdner Bank (Rossija) - one of the first foreign bank in Russia. In 1992, led the delegation in the city. Putin visited the Frankfurt -am-Main, where he and another member of the delegation, Vladimir Smirnov (friend and companion ... Peterburg Immobilien und Beteilgungen Aktiengesellshaft »( also known as SPAG), which through subsidiaries of the Russian- German companies would deal with real estate investment in St Petersburg. Four officials of the St. Petersburg mayor's office, including in. Putin, who became part of the ... SPAG firm headed by lawyer Rudolf Ritter, a St. Petersburg JSC ... Smirnov (a member of the board - in. Coumarin - Barsukov ) became the St. Petersburg branch of SPAG'a. 200 shares received in the property SPAG'a City Hall, whose name in. Putin gave them to manage in. Smirnov («Newsweek», 03. 09. 2001 ). (In 1999 the firm SPAG in connection with her involvement in Russia's new prime minister in. Putin has undergone testing by the German Federal Intelligence Service BND. The audit accused the BND P. Ritter is that he was involved in laundering money for Russian criminal gangs and drug traffickers for Columbian - Cali cocaine cartel. In May, 2000. Ritter was arrested in the capital, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, and the summer of 2001 he was officially presented to the charges (La Repubblica, 13. 07. 2001; «Newsweek», 03. 09. 2001 ). Adviser to the firm in the SPAG. Putin formally remained until March 2000 (Le Monde, 25. 06. 2000 with reference to the director of the firm of Marcus Reza ). At the beginning of 1992 in. Putin was appointed deputy mayor of St. Petersburg with the preservation of his post of chairman of the FAC. During the events in September - early October 1993 on behalf of a. Sobchak in Moscow organized the transfer of special forces regiment, who was involved in blocking the White House, the sweep of the supporters of Parliament and Mayor of the hotel ... Since the second half of 1993 during his frequent absences abroad for a. Sobchak was to leave his place ... fishing season. In addition to the Foreign Relations Committee he was entrusted with the commission as Mayor for Operations. In March, 1994. A. Sobchak was created in St. Petersburg city government, becoming its chairman. First Deputy Prime Minister of St. Petersburg - Chairman of the FAC was appointed in. Putin ( later that same year the title was changed: first deputy mayor of. St. Petersburg - Chairman of the FAC). In March-April 1994 was in charge of the executive branch of city campaign for the election of the City ( Legislative ) Assembly Hall and the creation of controlled block ... Having placed their candidates in almost all districts, the unit ... In autumn 1994, was in charge of elections to the Legislative Assembly (AP) St. Petersburg, where about half the seats were loyal to the mayor's office business and policy centrist and moderate -democratic orientation ( in m. h. 7 seats - ... 2nd place in the by-election took the ... In early May 1995 in. Putin headed the organizing committee of the St. Petersburg branch of the PDR, and the founding conference of the regional office, was elected chairman of its board of. At the founding congress of PDR May 12, 1995 in Moscow, was elected a Fellow of FFCD PDR (of 126 ). In summer and autumn of 1995 led the campaign for elections to the NDR Duma. During this campaign he was able to bring to the election fund PDR 1 billion 100 million rubles ($ denominated ) provided most of the St. Petersburg banks (whereas from the central election headquarters PDR was listed only 15 million p. (... 12. 1995 ). The list of MPR in St. Petersburg was incorporated a spouse. Sobchak Lyudmila Narusova. A candidate who exhibited in a single PDR ( of 8 ) in St. Petersburg majority districts, lost the election, by proportional MPR took in third place ( after the ... Narusova. In March 1996, joined the staff of the St. Petersburg regional branch of the All-Russian public support for the motion of the President ( ODOPP ), which joined the organization stood for reelection B. Russian President Yeltsin. On this occasion, the leader of the St. Petersburg ... Putin in the department violated the law ... The prosecutor's office has not given the course of this statement, noting the version in. Putin, he entered the ODOPP not as the first vice -mayor of St. Petersburg, as well as the head of the regional organization PDR. In the spring of 1996. In. Putin is doing (with Alexei Kudrin ) election campaign, a. Sobchak's election for governor of St. Petersburg. In. And Putin. Sobchak ordered the city to convince the deputies of the Legislative Assembly to postpone the election from June 16 to 19 May to rivals did not have time to campaign. Early on the morning of March 13, 1996 in. Putin has brought to the AP presidential decree that allowed the mayoral election on May 19, and a draft decision to postpone the election, and then ... 08. 1999 ). In efforts. Putin's March 20 - the last day when you could legally peresnesti elections - the majority of deputies voted for the transfer of. After the defeat of a. Sobchak's election, in. Putin resigned from their posts in the government of St. Petersburg and received an invitation from the business manager Pavel Borodin, the president as his deputy. The Deputy Manager of the President of the Russian Federation (from July 1996 to March 1997 ) In. Putin was in charge of foreign ownership of the administration. During his stay in. Putin to the post all the former Soviet Union and the Communist Party property abroad has been put on the record and reissued - in fact, transferred the property to the Office of Presidential Affairs. March 26, 1997 by presidential decree in. Putin was appointed deputy head of the Presidential Administration - Chief of the General Accountability Office ( CCU ) of the President, succeeding A. Kudrin, who became Deputy Minister of Finance. At the IV Congress of the PDR April 19, 1997, was elected a member of the political council of the FFCD PDR (of 178 ). June 21, 1997 3rd Conference of the St. Petersburg regional branch of the PDR accepted the request in. Putin to dismiss the Chairman of the Board in connection with his appointment as head of the Civil Code, leaving him a representative of the St. Petersburg Branch of the All-Russian political council in the PDR. The new chairman of the Regional Council of PDR became president of JSC ... - Rector Vladimir Litvinenko Mining Academy ). September 19, 1997 was included in the Interdepartmental Commission of the Russian Federation Security Council on Economic Security. May 25, 1998 he was appointed first deputy head of the Presidential Administration in charge of the work with the regions ( replacing Victoria Mitin ). Prior to the beginning of June and remained head of the Presidential Administration of Control ( in June 1998 on the recommendation of this Department in. Putin was asked to head Nikolai Patrushev ). July 15, 1998 led by the Presidential Commission for the preparation of agreements on the delimitation of powers between the federal bodies of state power and bodies of state power of subjects of the Russian Federation (in place of sacked Sergei Shakhrai ). Since then, was not signed by any such contract. July 25, 1998 by presidential decree in. Putin was appointed director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). October 1, 1998 was inducted into the permanent Security Council members Russia, and November 18, 1998 presidential decree included in the update of the Security Council. As head of the FSB has produced a number of personnel and structural changes that eliminated the two biggest department of the FSB - Economic Intelligence ( Universal Smart Card ) and provide strategic facilities kontrrazvedovatelnogo ( Ucros ), creating instead of 6 new offices. FSB has made regular funding, and ( directly from Yeltsin, bypassing the bureaucratic ladder ) pay raise FSB, equating them with the employees of the SVR and FAPSI. March 29, 1999 he was appointed secretary of the Russian Security Council with maintaining the post of Director of the FSB. Remained in the list of the political council of the MPR, at the VI Congress of the reorganized PDR April 24, 1999. In late 1998 - early 1999, the Prosecutor General Yuri Skuratov pressure Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, authorized the excitation number of corruption cases that have affected the interests of the president 's inner circle B. Yeltsin (t. n. ... Borodin. In. Putin took an active part in discrediting SW. Skuratov. Unidentified persons was a secret video of ... On behalf of the President in. Putin demanded that the S. Skuratov avoid scandal voluntarily leave his post. After refusing SW. Skuratov, the record of sexual entertainment ' rights, like the Attorney General ... As occurred in the press alleged that the video head Mikhail Shvydkoi RTR presented himself ... April 7, 1999 in. Putin said in his speech on television that a preliminary assessment of the experts of the FSB and the Interior Ministry acknowledged video sexual entertainment prosecutor genuine. Called for a voluntary resignation SW. Skuratov ( ... 04. 99 ). August 9, 1999 by presidential decree in the government introduced another first deputy prime minister ( the third one ), and the same decree, the office has received in. Putin. On the same day another decree B. Yeltsin's Cabinet Sergei Stepashin was dismissed, and in. Putin was appointed acting head of government (such a sequence of assignments due to the fact that under the law, only the vice- prime minister can be appointed to the post and. of. Prime Minister ). In his televised address B. Yeltsin on the same day called in. Putin as his successor as President of Russia. In a television interview the same day in. Putin said that the offer of the B. Yeltsin and will run for president in 2000. August 16, 1999 the State Duma adopted in the. Prime Minister Putin (233 votes ...
