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News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services.VLADIMIR Putin is one of the most powerful politicians in the world as the President of Russia.Here's everything we know about the 67-year-old and his personal life?Vladimir Putin has been President of Russia twice - previously from  2000 to 2008, before being re-elected in 2012.Between the two terms, he served as Russia's Prime Minister.Technically, the 67-year-old has been in power at the top of the Russian government for 20 years.His first stint in a position of power came in  1999, after the then-Russian president Boris Yeltsin dismissed his Prime Minister and promoted former KGB officer Vladimir Putin in his place.In December 1999, Yeltsin resigned, appointing Putin president until official elections were held in March 2000.He was elected to his first term with 53 per cent of the vote, and was re-elected for a follow-up four year term in 2004.Due to constitutional term limits, Putin was prevented from running for the presidency in 2008.Instead he was appointed prime minister by his successor, Dmitry Medvedev, allowing him to maintain a primary position of influence for the next four years.Putin was re-elected to the presidency in March 2012 and later won a fourth term, keeping him in power until the present day.The Russian leader was born in Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) on October 7 1952, making him 67 years old.The President was the youngest of three sons born to Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin and his wife Maria Ivanovna Putina, and his birth was preceded by the deaths of his two brothers Viktor and Albert.Putin married Lyudmila Shkrebneva on July 28 1983, and they lived together in East Germany from 1985 to 1990.They have two daughters, Mariya Putina, born April 28 1985 in Leningrad, and Yekaterina Putina, born August 31 1986 in Dresden, East Germany.On June 6 2013, Putin announced that their marriage was over, and on April 1 2014, the Kremlin confirmed that the divorce had been finalised.Lyudmila was educated as a linguist and graduated from the branch of Spanish language and philology of the Department of Philology of Leningrad State University in 1986.In her youth, Lyudmila was a flight attendant for the Kaliningrad branch of Aeroflot, before going on to teach German at the Department of Philology of Leningrad State University from 1990 to 1994.After Vladimir's rise to political power, Lyudmila maintained a low profile on the Russian political stage, generally avoiding the limelight except as required by protocol and restricting her public role to supportive statements about her husband.Her children were withdrawn from the German School in Moscow and no photographs of them have ever been published by the Russian media.The Putin family have never issued an official family portrait either. 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In June 2012, in Paris, he rejected the statement of French President In October 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the According to a June 2007 public opinion survey, Putin's approval rating was 81%, the second highest of any leader in the world that year.Observers saw Putin's high approval ratings in 2010's as a consequence of significant improvements in living standards, and Russia's reassertion of itself on the world scene during his presidency.Despite high approval for Putin, confidence in the Russian economy was low, dropping to levels in 2016 that rivaled the recent lows in 2009 at the height of the global economic crisis. Maria Lipman, "How Putin Silences Dissent: Inside the Kremlin's Crackdown". He was one of a few in the class of approximately 45 pupils who was not yet a member of the Putin studied Law at the Leningrad State University (now In May 1990, Putin was appointed as an advisor on international affairs to the Mayor of Leningrad On 28 June 1991, he became head of the Committee for External Relations of the In March 1994, Putin was appointed as First Deputy Chairman of the In June 1996, Sobchak lost his bid for reelection in Saint Petersburg, so Putin moved to Moscow and was appointed as Deputy Chief of the On 25 May 1998, Putin was appointed First Deputy Chief of On 9 August 1999, Putin was appointed one of three First Deputy Prime Ministers, and later on that day, was appointed acting Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation by President Yeltsin.Yeltsin's main opponents and would-be successors were already campaigning to replace the ailing president, and they fought hard to prevent Putin's emergence as a potential successor. order back issues and use the historic Daily Express