Partially due to his hardline stance against terrorism and the successful conduct of the Second Chechen War ... lists 25 major events that define Putin's 25-year-long rule over Russia.

On 31 December 1999, who would have thought that Russia's new leader would still be in power two and a half decades later? Or that Russia today would be waging war on ... Putin on 25-year Russian ...

Putin’s obduracy turned an opening military fiasco into a brutal war of attrition which Russia’s resources could win at a huge price. But Putin’s rise over the years owed more to ...

When Boris Yeltsin suddenly resigned as Russia’s first post-Communist president on New Year’s Eve, 1999, his country seemed to be spiralling downhill into economic and political disintegration.

On New Year’s Eve, 1999, Boris Yeltsin handed over Russia’s presidency to an unknown figure—Vladimir Putin—with one request: "Take care of Russia." Now, 25 years later, the question ...

Almost three years after the start of the war in Ukraine, the European Union has not fully achieved this goal. Liquefied natural gas still flows from Russia to the European Union. Trade has shrunk ...

the closer Russia's war on Ukraine gets to the three-year mark. That's because President Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has had devastating consequences. Primarily for Ukraine, which has ...

Rare footage of Vladimir Putin during his first address to Russia has been unearthed a quarter of a century later. On New Year’s Eve 1999 ... and Russia’s war with Ukraine has seen hundreds ...

Russia’s birth rate has hit a 25-year low, with just 599,600 children ... High adult mortality, emigration, and the war in Ukraine have compounded the crisis. Critics argue that the government ...

That same year the second Chechen war on the country’s southern border raged. Twenty-five years later, Vladimir Putin is still in the Kremlin, but Russia is again in the grip of war on its post-Soviet ...

As we step into 2025, Vladimir Putin's leadership continues to dominate global headlines, especially with the ongoing war in Ukraine and Russia’s plans moving forward. In his New Year's address ...

The year is 1999 and ... tensions between Ukraine and Russia came to a head after the Russian Federation annexed Crimea following a quick referendum. In early 2022, the war escalated when Russia ...