Vladimir Putin becomes Russia’s president for life Photogallery

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President Vladimir Putin on Friday, 3rd of July, ordered amendments that would allow him to remain in power until 2036 to be put into the Russian Constitution after voters approved the changes during a week-long plebiscite. He will be 84 years old by 2036. Putin came into power as the President on New Year’s Eve in 1999 as the then President Boris Yeltsin strangely resigned. Many people believed Yeltsin propelled Putin to the president to protect himself. In 2004, Putin was re-elected for a second term. A journalist Anna Politkovskaya who wrote an article about corruption in the Russian army with respect to Chechnya, was murdered in her apartment lobby in 2006. Vladimir Putin denied all allegations. He has a black belt in judo, has flown in a fighter aircraft and shot a Siberian tiger in the wild among a lot of other activities that he engages in, to build his image in the media.Let’s have a look at few pictures of the Russian President.

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Vladimir Putin becomes Russia’s president for life

Russia’s then President, Boris Yeltsin presenting flowers to Vladimir Putin who was then the Russian Prime Minister, as Yeltsin announced his resignation and officially hands over the country’s duties to Putin in Kremlin. He had appointed Putin as the Prime Minister in August 1999 and announced his resignation and transfer of power just a few months later, on New Years Eve.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila sit in front of the Taj Mahal while touring the city of Agra on October 4, 2000. Putin told India's parliament that ties with New Delhi would remain a key element of Moscow's foreign policy, building on the first day of a visit aimed at rekindling Soviet-era amity.

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U.S. President Bill Clinton shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin before a bilateral meeting hosted by the United States in Auckland, New Zealand, September 12, 1999. The two leaders are in New Zealand for the annual Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' meeting.

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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and the Russian President Vladimir Putin leave in an open carriage after the president was given a ceremonial welcome on Horse Guards Parade, by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in London. Putin landed in Britain for a historic state visit that aimed at repairing diplomatic damage from the Iraq war. The ceremonial welcome was followed by a state carriage procession along the Mall to Buckingham Palace.

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Vladimir Putin rides a horse in southern Siberia's Tuva region on August 3, 2009.

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Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rides a Harley Davidson Lehman Trike as he arrives for a meeting with motor bikers at their camp near Sevastopol in Ukraine's Crimea on July 24, 2010

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Vladimir Putin holds a fish he caught during the hunting and fishing trip that took place from August 1^st to 3^rd in the republic of Tyva in southern Siberia, Russia in 2017.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin stands with a gun at a shooting gallery of the new GRU military intelligence headquarters building as he visits it in Moscow on November 8, 2006.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin exercises in a gym at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi, Russia, on August 30, 2015.

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Vladimir Putin, sits in the cockpit of a firefighting plane, dropping off water on a blaze in southeast Moscow as wildfires raged in several provinces in Russia on August, 2010.

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