25 years of Putin: Person who knows him well on how Russian leader changed over years

Record ID: 1986131

  • Title: 25 years of Putin: Person who knows him well on how Russian leader changed over years
  • Date: 26th March 2025
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (FILE - DECEMBER 9, 2019) (RUSSIAN POOL) UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY, FRENCH PRESIDENT, EMMANUEL MACRON, AND RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SITTING AT TABLE, MACRON AND PUTIN MAKING GESTURES ASKING ZELENSKIY TO LOOK INTO CAMERAS BEHIND HIS BACK, ZELENSKIY TURNING, SMILING MOSCOW, RUSSIA (FEBRUARY 24, 2022) (RUSSIAN POOL) (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RU
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  • Keywords: ANNIVERSARY ELECTION PUTIN RUSSIA YAVLINSKY
  • Location: VARIOUS LOCATIONS
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  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: Europe,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA00A149025032025RP1
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  • Story Text: March 26 marks twenty-five years since Vladimir Putin was first elected as Russian president. Putin was named acting president on Dec. 31, 1999, by then-president Boris Yeltsin.
    Putin has been in office as president or prime minister ever since, a period now spanning more than 25 years.
    Reuters interviewed veteran politician Grigory Yavlinsky, the leader of Russia's liberal Yabloko party who has known Putin since the 90s and ran against him for the presidency two times, coming up third in 2000.
    Yavlinksy speaks about Putin, his beliefs, his transformation over the years, about Ukraine and the current talks over a ceasefire and Putin’s negotiating style.
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