putin, vladimir vladimirovich

With the 1991 collapse of the Societ Union Russia launched a transition to Western-style democracy. But a decade later, Boris Yeltsin's handpicked successor, Vladimir Putin, is not taking the country in the direction it was expected to go. Unsettling revelations about Putin are disclosed. As Russia continues to build its relationship with the United States its future is still uncertain.

Vladimir Putin is Russia's third president under their Democratic government experiment. Handpicked by Boris Yeltsin to succeed him, Putin held strong convictions about how his country should be managed and where he wanted to stand on the world's stage. Fiercely patriotic and ambitious, Putin began his career as a counterintelligence spy but when the Soviet Union's Communist rule dissolved in 1989 he was determined to find another way to serve his country.

Examines the life of Russian president Vladimir Putin, discussing his childhood, his work as a counterintelligence spy for the KGB, and his efforts to find another way to serve his country after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Presents a brief biography of former KGB agent and president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and discusses his childhood as the son of a laborer and his post-Soviet leadership.

Examines the life of Vladimir Putin, tracing his remarkable rise to power as the leader of modern Russia.