Vladimir Putin

<p><strong>Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin</strong> (<span class= "rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa" xml:lang="en-fonipa"><a title="Help:IPA/English" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English">/<span title= "/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title= "'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title= "/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span><span title= "'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title= "/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title= "'n' in 'nigh'">n</span>/</a></span></span>; Russian: <span lang="ru" xml:lang="ru">Владимир Владимирович Путин</span>; <span class="IPA" lang="ru-Latn-fonipa" title= "Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" xml:lang="ru-Latn-fonipa"><a title="Help:IPA/Russian" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Russian">[vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ ˈputʲɪn]</a></span> <span class= "nowrap">(<span class="unicode haudio"><span class="fn"><a title= "About this sound" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ru-Vladimir_Vladimirovich_Putin.ogg"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png" srcset= "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/17px-Loudspeaker.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/22px-Loudspeaker.svg.png 2x" alt="" width="11" height="11" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a><a class="internal" title= "Ru-Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.ogg" href= "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Ru-Vladimir_Vladimirovich_Putin.ogg">listen</a></span></span>)</span>; born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the <a title="President of Russia" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Russia">president of Russia</a>, a position he has filled since 2012, and previously from 2000 until 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class= "reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin#cite_note-9">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="