Brian Kilmeade hosts the new Fox Nation special, 'Who is Vladimir Putin?' available to stream now.
, he worked for the then-mayor of Saint Petersburg until 1996. Two years later, former Russian President Boris Yeltsin appointed him to be director of the main successor organization to the KGB. became prime minister and Yeltsin’s intended successor, despite having little political experience.
"Yeltsin identifies him as someone who he thinks is good at his job, sort of carries out what he's supposed to do without much fuss," Syracuse University professor Brian Taylor said in theDespite being originally unknown and unpopular, he won the 2000 popular vote after apartment bombings were attributed to Chechen terrorists. Putin resonated with the Russian people by declaring the Second Chechen War.
"While everyone in the West was expecting Russia to become a democracy, was expecting to reap the proverbial peace dividend, that was
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