As Vladimir Putin eyes another term as president in the 2024 elections, this article explores his history as a KGB agent, his upbringing in Leningrad, and the events that threatened his grip on power.
From working as a KGB agent in Soviet East Germany to the very heights of the Kremlin , the history of the Russian Federation is in many ways inseparable from that of Vladimir Putin . As he eyes another term as president in the 2024 elections , Sky News takes a look back at his long reign - and some of the events that threatened his grip on power. Growing up in the shadow of the Nazi siege of Leningrad Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born in the Soviet City of Leningrad on 7 October 1952.
Death of Alexander Litvinenko In November 2006, a former KGB agent who went on to work for MI6 after fleeing to the UK fell ill after meeting two fellow ex-KGB agents at a hotel in London. Alexander Litvinenko, a British citizen, had been a vocal critic of President Putin. He died an agonising death after being poisoned with tea laced with Polonium 210, a rare and very potent radioactive isotope.
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