Jacques Chirac

Vladimir Putin is about to mark 20 years at the helm of his country as The President and the Prime Minister , Navigation, geopolitical crises, and major sporting events.

Bill Clinton was in the White house, when the former KGB agent, Russia 's President was for The First time at 31. December 1999. In the 20 years since then, there have been three other U.S. presidents and five UK Prime Ministers .

Of the global conflicts and domestic political scandals to sporting triumphs and propaganda photos, we look at the images that define Mr. Putin's two decades in Power .

The former KGB officer had already been appointed to the Prime Minister , if Russia , the second Chechen war in October 1999 launched, in response to a series of deadly bomb attacks on apartment blocks.

The beginning of his term in office was marked by The Conflict in Russia 's restive southern Republic. The Russian troops besieged The Chechen capital, Grozny. In 2003, the UN described Grozny as The Most destroyed city on earth in the course of The Siege .

for years, Russia was hit by militant attacks, such as the 2004 Beslan school siege in which 330 people died, most of them children.

President Putin is not officially the end of combat operations in Chechnya until 2009 .

Mr Putin was confirmed in office in the presidential elections in March 2000, and months has been within in the center of a PR crisis.

The Kursk submarine disaster left 118 crew members Dead .

When the Kursk sank in August 2000, it took days to inform for Russia , relatives, and The President initially did not Return Home from his Black Sea vacation.

In his first ten years in office, Vladimir Putin was to discuss the generally good conditions with Western heads of state and government, in spite of his criticism of their foreign Policy ,

Russia hosted its first G8 summit in 2006, confirming its membership in the economic group.

Under the Russian Constitution, Mr Putin could not remain as President for a third consecutive term in office, so in 2008, Prime Minister for four years.

Few saw The President Dmitry Medvedev as little More Than a Putin protégé standing in for his boss.

When Georgia sent its troops to regain control over the breakaway region of South Ossetia in 2008, Russia invaded deep into Georgia.

The Brief August war was a Wake-up call to The West , but Russia was a move in the Eastern Ukraine in the year 2014, that Mr Putin's relations with Western heads of state and government mad.

Russia is prompted by the seizure and annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, the EU and US sanctions, and brought a suspension of the membership of the G8.

Four years into the Syrian Civil War , Russia intervened, to go back to their ally, President Bashar al-Assad, whose government is on the verge of collapse. Mr Putin is to send the decision to the Russian planes and tanks The Balance of Power changes on the ground.

According to Donald Trump the victory in the US presidential election in 2016, and that U.S. intelligence concluded that Russia had interfered in The Campaign .

And in the year 2018, the UK has accused Russia , in the intoxication of his former Military Intelligence officer Sergei Skripal , in Salisbury .

During his time in office the Russian President has sought control over its image and that of his country. A series of photos published, which have tried from the guide over The Years , to show him as a strong man.

He has also tried to boost Russia -sports profile through the 2014 winter Olympics and the 2018 World Cup .

The Sochi games were a success, but to feel the impact of the doping scandal continues.

from all of the major sports event last week. A 2015 report said that Russia had operated what amounted to a state-sponsored doping program in athletics. This month, it was found to laboratory data provided in the January tampered with.

During the 2018 Fifa World Cup an international success, the doping scandal was not mean that Russia will take part in the location of it in the next competition, in Qatar in 2022.

Source of news: bbc.com