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What is the name of the Russian leader after Boris Yeltsin?

Asked by RedDeerGuy1 (24463points) September 2nd, 2018

His last name starts with a “Z”. He got 5 years in jail , before he was sworn in, for threatening to take back Alaska from the Americans.

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Brian1946's avatar

It’s Trumps’ mentor.

“He moved to Moscow in 1996 and joined President Boris Yeltsin’s administration, rising quickly through the ranks and becoming Acting President on 31 December 1999, when Yeltsin resigned.

Putin won the 2000 presidential election by a 53% to 30% margin, thus avoiding a runoff with his Communist Party of the Russian Federation opponent, Gennady Zyuganov.

He was reelected president in 2004 with 72% of the vote. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits,

Putin was ineligible to run for a third consecutive presidential term in 2008. The 2008 presidential election was won by Dmitry Medvedev, who appointed Putin as Prime Minister, the beginning of what some opponents considered to be a period of ‘tandemocracy’.”

Brian1946's avatar

Reedit:

“He moved to Moscow in 1996 and joined President Boris Yeltsin’s administration, rising quickly through the ranks and becoming Acting President on 31 December 1999, when Yeltsin resigned.

Putin won the 2000 presidential election by a 53% to 30% margin, thus avoiding a runoff with his Communist Party of the Russian Federation opponent, Gennady Zyuganov.

He was reelected president in 2004 with 72% of the vote.

Because of constitutionally mandated term limits, Putin was ineligible to run for a third consecutive presidential term in 2008. The 2008 presidential election was won by Dmitry Medvedev, who appointed Putin as Prime Minister, the beginning of what some opponents considered to be a period of ‘tandemocracy’.”

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

@Brian1946 Was it Zyuganov who got 5 years in jail for war mongering?

Brian1946's avatar

I didn’t find any mention of it on his Wiki page.

However, I didn’t read the whole thing.

I just did a Ctrl F search using the terms prison, jail, convicted, charged, Alaska, and war, and found nada.

Here’s a Google page I got by using the search term Russia threatens to reclaim Alaska.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

Might be Vladimir Zhirinovsky? He wants to forcibly take back Alaska. Skip to “Foreign relations and military excursions” a one sentence in the first paragraph said that he “He has advocated forcibly retaking Alaska from the United States”

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