Media suppression, corruption and the murder of political rivals have marked the regime of Vladimir Putin, who is running for his third term as president in Russia's election next week. Despite mass ...

The 21st century is shaping up to be a new Age of Dictators. None is scarier, future history books may well judge, than Russian President Vladimir Putin. His war with Ukraine is a gambler’s war. The ...

Vladimir Putin was born in Leningrad (since September 1991 St. Petersburg) on October 7, 1952. In 1975, Putin graduated from the Department of Law (International Law Branch) of the Leningrad State ...

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born on October 7, 1952, in Leningrad, Russia (now Saint Petersburg), and has been the President of Russia since 2012, having previously held the position from 2000 to ...

Today in books and literature: Julian Barnes is the favorite to win the Man Booker Prize, the Vladimir Putin biography that had the Frankfurt Book Fair buzzing, and the "safety precaution" that led to ...

For the full story, click here. We revisit host Scott Tong's conversation from July with longtime foreign correspondent Philip Short about his book "Putin." It takes a close examination of the life ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace talks about the centers of power in Russia, and how they could pose a threat to Russian President Putin. How ...

Since June 12, 2013, Putin has been the leader of the non-governmental movement All-Russia People’s Front, created at his initiative as a coalition of social and political forces MOSCOW, May 7. /TASS/ ...