The resistible rise of Vladimir Putin

• Autores: Stephen Kotkin
• Localización: Foreign Affairs, ISSN 0015-7120, Vol. 94, Nº. 2, 2015, págs. 140-153
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article provides an overview of the political career of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. He worked for the Soviet Union's Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti (kgb), the city of Leningrad in the early post-Soviet period, then he was appointed acting prime minister in 1999, then acting president of the Russian Federation by Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Topics include an analysis of political corruption, economic development, and political power and power sharing in the Russian Federation under the leadership of Putin.