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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born October 7, 1952), is the current President of Russia.

Putin was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).

He was a KGB officer from 1975 to 1991 and head of the FSB (the KGB's successor} from July 1998 to August 1999. He was Prime Minister in Boris Yeltsin's government from August 1999. On December 31, 1999, Yeltsin resigned, and made Putin the second (acting) President of the Russian Federation. Proper Presidential elections were held on March 26, 2000, which Putin won.

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