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Vladimir Putin Is Born
Vladimir Putin is born into an ordinary family in Saint Petersburg, USSR. -
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Attends Leningard State University and studies law.
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Putin is a member of the KGB.
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Putin gets married.
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Becomes a government official working on internation affairs in the Saint Petersburg
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Putin moves to Moscow and carries on his political career.
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Putin becomes director of the FSB. (The KGB's successor.)
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Putin beomes acting Prime Minister of Russia
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Boris Yeltsin resigns leaving Vladimir Putin to be Acting President of Russia.
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Putin wins presidential elections
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Putin inaugurated as president.
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First Major Challenge for Putin as president: The Kursk submarine disaster.
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Putin is elected for a second presidential term.
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Putin's second presidency ends.
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Putin Becomes Prime Minister of Russia
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Putin becomes president of Russia for the third time
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Putin offers economic help to then Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovych
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2014 Ukrainian Revolution
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Putin signs a bill that declares Crimea as part of the Russian Federation
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Petro Poroshenko is elected as the new president of Ukriane and is backed by the western superpowers.
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MH17 is shot down.
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Putin orders Russian soldiers near the Ukrainian border to fall back.
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Russian Rouble's Value decreases when sanctions from the west t