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| STATISTICS | |
| Source of Wealth | Oil, Gas, Investments |
| Age: | 69 |
| Birth Place: | Leningrad, Soviet Union(St.Petersburg, Russia) |
| Height: | 5' 7" (1.70 m) |
| Marital Status: | Divorced (Lyudmila Shkrebneva) |
| Full Name: | Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin |
| Nationality: | Russian |
| Date of Birth: | October 7, 1952 |
| Ethnicity: | Russian |
| Occupation: | Politician, Businessman |
| Education: | Leningrad State University |
| Children: | 2 (Mariya, Yekaterina) |
| Residence: | Moscow, Russia |
| Citizenship: | Russia |
| Marital Status: | Divorced |
| Education: | Doctor of Jurisprudence, Saint Petersburg State University |
Vladimir Putin was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from his student years in 1975 until the day it was banned by Yeltsin in 1991.
During his first tenure as president, the Russian economy grew for eight straight years, with GDP measured by purchasing power increasing by 72%.
He has been in power since 2000 - the longest-serving Kremlin leader since Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who died in 1953. Mr Putin was re-elected for six years in 2018.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia, a position he has filled since 2012, and previously from 2000 until 2008.
Putin was born on 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia), the youngest of three children of Vladimir
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Putin studied law at the Leningrad State University named after Andrei Zhdanov (now Saint Petersburg State University) in 1970.