Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin. (Presidential Press and Information Office, CC BY 4.0)

In the archive
Role	Chief of state: President Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN (since 7 May 2012)
Country	Russia
Office
Position	President of Russia, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Personal details
Born	7 October 1952
Birthplace	V.F. Snegiryov Maternity Hospital No.6
Children	2
Education	Academy of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, Academy of Foreign Intelligence
Occupation	politician, judoka
This archive
Archived items	70
As of	2026-08-23

Vladimir Putin as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

Situation as of 2026-08-23

Most recent archived item: Putin Wants to Draft 300K New Troops, Zelensky Says - reported by Moscow Times

Most recent archived item: Moscow Times

This page lists 12 archived headlines published between 2026-02-27 and 2026-08-23. It reflects what these feeds reported in that window, not everything that happened.

Biography

Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

Biography

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He has been described as the de facto leader of Russia between 2008 and 2012. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He resigned in 1991 to begin a political career in Saint Petersburg. In 1996, Putin moved to Moscow to join the administration of President Boris Yeltsin. He briefly served as the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and then as secretary of the Security Council of Russia before being appointed prime minister in August 1999. Following Yeltsin's resignation, Putin became acting president and, less than three months later in March 2000, was elected to his first term as president. [1]

Early Life

Putin was born on 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, known as Saint Petersburg since 1991, in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. He is the youngest of three children born to Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin and Maria Ivanovna Putina (née Shelomova). His grandfather, Spiridon Putin, was a personal cook to Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. Putin's birth was preceded by the deaths of two brothers: Albert, born in the 1930s, died in infancy, and Viktor, born in 1940, died of diphtheria and starvation in 1942 during the Siege of Leningrad by German forces in World War II. Putin's mother was a factory worker, and his father was a conscript in the Soviet Navy, serving in the submarine fleet in the early 1930s. During the early stage of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, his father served in the destruction battalion of the NKVD. Later, he was transferred to the regular army and was severely wounded in 1942. Putin's maternal grandmother was killed by the German occupiers of the Tver region in 1941, and his maternal uncles disappeared on the Eastern Front during World War II. [2]

Career

Putin's political rise began in the Saint Petersburg administration (1990–1996), where in May 1990, he was appointed as an advisor on international affairs to Mayor Anatoly Sobchak. Shortly thereafter, in June 1991, he became the head of the Committee for External Relations of the Saint Petersburg Mayor's Office, overseeing the promotion of international ties, foreign investment, and the registration of business ventures. Though his tenure was marred by investigations from the city legislative council concerning discrepancies in asset valuation and the export of metals, Putin retained his position until 1996. During the mid-1990s, he expanded his responsibilities in Saint Petersburg, serving as first deputy head of the city administration and leading the local branch of the pro-government political party Our Home Is Russia, as well as participating in advisory roles with regional newspapers. Transitioning to the national scene in 1996, Putin was called to Moscow following the electoral defeat of Sobchak, where he assumed the role of Deputy Chief of the Presidential Property Management Department. In this capacity, he was responsible for managing the transfer of former Soviet assets to the Russian Federation. His career in Moscow advanced rapidly with his appointment in 1997 as deputy chief of the Presidential Staff and later as chief of the Main Control Directorate of the same department. A pivotal moment came in 1998 when President Boris Yeltsin appointed him director of the FSB, Russia's primary intelligence and security agency. [3]

Reporting

The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

Other archived reporting

• [4] 2026-08-23 - Moscow Times: Putin Wants to Draft 300K New Troops, Zelensky Says
• [5] 2026-08-23 - gCaptain: Zelenskyy Says Putin Rejected Black Sea Shipping Truce Offer
• [6] 2026-08-23 - Moscow Times: Putin Says Ukraine Opened ‘Pandora's Box’ With Strikes on Economic Targets
• [7] 2026-08-12 - outlet not recorded: Putin warns of tit-for-tat seizures of European vessels
• [8] 2026-07-23 - outlet not recorded: The West's plan to pressure Putin has a glaring flaw
• [9] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
• [10] 2026-07-08 - outlet not recorded: On St. John of Damascus’ Magnum Opus - St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary
• [11] 2026-07-05 - outlet not recorded: With Putin visibly weakened, now is the time to back Ukraine
• [12] 2026-07-02 - outlet not recorded: Facing New Pressure From Ukraine, Putin Signals Intent to Dig In
• [13] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
• [14] 2026-06-30 - outlet not recorded: Ukraine’s blockade of Crimea puts Putin’s greatest victory under threat
• [15] 2026-06-29 - outlet not recorded: Russia is burning, but don’t expect Putin to blink
• ...and 58 more not listed here.

See also: Russia

Publication history

What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

• rev 1, 2026-08-26 — first published from 13 source(s)
• rev 2, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
• rev 3, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
• rev 4, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
• rev 5, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

Sources

Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

• [1] Wikipedia
• [2] Wikipedia
• [3] Wikipedia
• [4] Moscow Times, 2026-08-23
• [5] gCaptain, 2026-08-23
• [6] Moscow Times, 2026-08-23
• [13] outlet not recorded, 2026-07-01

How this page is made

Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).