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Vladimir Putin: From spy to president
Born 7 October 1952 in Leningrad (now St Petersburg)
Studies law and joins KGB after university
Serves as a spy in communist East Germany - some ex-KGB comrades later get top state posts in Putin era
1990s - top aide to St Petersburg mayor Anatoly Sobchak, who previously taught him law
Enters Boris Yeltsin's Kremlin in 1997, made chief of Federal Security Service (the FSB - main successor of the KGB), then prime minister
New Year's Eve, 1999 - Yeltsin quits and names him acting president
Easily wins presidential election in March 2000
Wins a second term in 2004
Is barred from running for a third successive term by the Russian constitution, but instead becomes prime minister
Wins a third presidential term in 2012
Let's take a look at life of one of the best powerful man in the world
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