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Vladimir Putin is the President of Russia, and has effectively been in charge of Russian politics since 1999.

An ex-KGB agent, Putin's rule has seen assassinations, brutal crackdowns on civil liberties in Russia, interference with democracy in the West, and the annexation of Crimea.