What is Vladimir Putin?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[His Excellency]] | birth_name = Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin | name = Vladimir Putin | native_name = {{No bold|Владимир Путин}} | native_name_lang = ru | image = Владимир Путин (08-03-2024) (crop).jpg | caption = Putin in March 2024 | office1 = [[President of Russia|President of the Russian Federation]] | primeminister1 = [[Viktor Zubkov]]<br>[[Dmitry Medvedev]]<br>[[Mikhail Mishustin]] | term_start1 = 7 May 2012 | term_end1 = | predecessor1 = [[Dmitry Medvedev]] | successor1 = | primeminister2 = [[Mikhail Kasyanov]]<br>[[Mikhail Fradkov]]<br>[[Viktor Zubkov]] | term_start2 = 7 May 2000 | term_end2 = 7 May 2008<br>{{small|Acting: 31 December 1999 – 7 May 2000}} | predecessor2 = [[Boris Yeltsin]] | successor2 = [[Dmitry Medvedev]] | office3 = [[Prime Minister of Russia]] | president3 = [[Dmitry Medvedev]] | deputy3 = [[Igor Shuvalov]] | term_start3 = 8 May 2008 | term_end3 = 7 May 2012 | predecessor3 = [[Viktor Zubkov]] | successor3 = [[Viktor Zubkov]] | president4 = [[Boris Yeltsin]] | deputy4 = [[Viktor Khristenko]]<br>[[Mikhail Kasyanov]] | term_start4 = 9 August 1999 | term_end4 = 7 May 2000<br><small>Acting: 9 August 1999 – 16 August 1999</small> | predecessor4 = [[Sergei Stepashin]] | successor4 = [[Mikhail Kasyanov]] | office5 = [[United Russia|Leader of the United Russia Party]] | term_start5 = 1 January 2008 | term_end5 = 30 May 2012 | predecessor5 = [[Boris Gryzlov]] | successor5 = [[Dmitry Medvedev]] | office6 = [[Federal Security Service (Russia)|Director of the Federal Security Service]] | president6 = [[Boris Yeltsin]] | term_start6 = 25 July 1998 | term_end6 = 29 March 1999 | predecessor6 =