VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Born on June 1, 1958, in Ulan-Bator.
After graduating from a specialised school in Ulan-Bator with tuition in Russian, he enrolled in the Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow, graduating in 1980 as a literature theorist and a translator.
1980-1990: editor, translator, head of foreign relations department, and deputy chairman of the Mongolian Translators Union. Translated literary works into Mongolian, including Russian authors Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and in addition, English-language works.
From 1990: first deputy chairman of Mongolia's committee on culture and the arts.
He began his political activity at that time by setting up a youth group of the Mongolian People's Revolution Party (MPRP), New Generation. He was an MPRP member since 1985.
1992-1996: member of the State Great Hural (parliament) of Mongolia, Mongolia's Minister of Culture. Initiated the adoption of a series of laws aimed at preserving and developing the national culture during the hard times as Mongolia was progressing towards a market economy.
1997-2000: member of the second State Great Hural of Mongolia, head of the MPRP parliamentary group.
1996: elected General Secretary of the MPRP.
June 1997: elected MPRP chairman. Initiated the adoption of a new social-democratic party programme. Due to his successful efforts, the MPRP in 1998 became an observer at the Socialist International, a worldwide organisation of social democratic, socialist and labour parties, and became full member in 2003.
In June 2002: re-elected to Parliament and appointed Prime Minister at an extraordinary meeting on July 26, 2000.
August 13, 2004: became chairman of the State Great Hural, which was elected in June 2004.
May 22, 2005: elected President of Mongolia.
Studies traditional Mongolian culture and written language, and Buddhist philosophy. He has translated Buddha's Teachings into Mongolian, and collects Buddhism artefacts.
His wife, Onongiin Tsolmon, is a graduate of Moscow's Plekhanov School of Economics.
They have four children.
