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Putin graduated from the International Branch of the Law Department of the Leningrad State University in 1975 and was recruited into the KGB. In the University he also became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, where he remained until the ban on it imposed in August 1991.
He worked in the Leningrad and Leningrad region Directorate of KGB, where he was acquainted with Sergei Ivanov.[7]
In 1976 he completed KGB retraining courses. In 1978 he entered other retraining courses in foreign intelligence in Moscow. After completing the training he served in the First Department of the Leningrad Directorate (foreign intelligence) until 1983. In 1983-1984 he studied at the KGB High School in Moscow. In 1984 Putin was appointed Major.
From 1985 to 1990 the KGB stationed Putin in Dresden, East Germany,[2] in what he regards as a minor position. Following the collapse of the East German regime, Putin was recalled to the Soviet Union and returned to Leningrad, where in June 1990 he assumed a position with the International Affairs section of Leningrad State University, reporting to Vice-Rector Yuriy Molchanov. At his new position, Putin was reacquainted with Anatoly Sobchak (1937-2000), then Mayor of Leningrad. Sobchak served as an Assistant Professor during Putin's university years and was one of Putin's lecturers. Putin formally resigned from the state security services on August 20, 1991, during the KGB-supported abortive putsch against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
In 1996 Anatoly Sobchak lost the St. Petersburg Moyoral election to Vladimir Yakovlev. Putin was called to Moscow and in June 1996 assumed position of a Deputy Chief of the Presidential Property Management Department headed by Pavel Borodin. He occupied this position until March 1997. On March 26, 1997 President Boris Yeltsin appointed Putin Deputy Chief of Presidential Staff, where he remained until May 1998, and Chief of the Main Control Directorate of the Presidential Property Management Department (until June 1998).
On August 9, 1999 Vladimir Putin was appointed one of three First Deputies Prime Minister, which enabled him later on this day, as the previous government led by Sergei Stepashin had been sacked, to be appointed acting Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation by President Boris Yeltsin (Text of Yeltsin's speech in English: [16]). Yeltsin also announced that he wanted to see Putin as his successor. Later, that same day, Putin agreed to run for the presidency.
Originally posted by Royal76
IF its unbiased then why don't you fill free to mention all the people he has had murdered, or shut up????
The truth is out there:
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Originally posted by Royal76
IF its unbiased then why don't you fill free to mention all the people he has had murdered, or shut up????
The truth is out there:
www.abovepolitics.com...
Originally posted by Rockpuck
His current policies may seem extreme to some, especially out side of the US because we rarely understand that its OK to be different and not conform to the "western" rules.. and that by suppressing our ideas on everyone else, it actually pushes them away..
Originally posted by Rockpuck
As for his "ethics" that can be your own opinion.. I have seen nothing that I do not approve of as far as his handling of Russia, at the current time. For the economy and keeping dignity for Russia, she needs someone like Putin.. a strong hand. But that is just my opinion .. the history of his becoming is not.