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 June 1, 1958 in Ulan Bator.
1980 - Graduated as a fiction translator from the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. Attended English Language courses at the Leeds and Cambridge Universities.
Speaks Russian and English.
1980 - 1990 - Editor, translator; the External Relations Department of the Mongolian Writers' Union, Head; the Mongolian Translators' Union, Vice President.
1990 - 1992 - The Mongolian State Committee for Culture and Art, First Deputy Chairman.
1992 - 1996 - The State Great Hural (Parliament) of Mongolia, member; Minister of Culture.
1996 - Elected Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP), General Secretary.
1997 - 2000 - The State Great Hural, member; the MPRP parliamentary group, Head.
June, 1997 - Elected MPRP Chairman.
2000 - 2004 - The State Great Hural, member; Prime Minister of Mongolia.
2004 - Elected to the State Great Hural from the 65th District of Ulan Bator as an MPRP nominee.
August 13, 2004 - Elected State Great Hural Chairman.
May, 2005 - Wins the presidential election.
June 24, 2005 - - President of Mongolia.
Has a wife and three children.
