But when Vladimir Putin was named as successor to the drunken president Boris Yeltsin a quarter of a century ago, on New Year’s Eve in 1999, he was a virtual unknown outside Russian politics.

The swaggering KGB thug - then 47, now 72 - took over from the weak and booze-soaked Boris Yeltsin. Despite originally trying to build bridges with the West, he proceeded to put Russia into a ...

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He was speaking exactly 25 years since he first addressed the nation as its acting president after Boris Yeltsin resigned unexpectedly on the last day of 1999. Putin, 72, paid tribute to Russian ...

AP Vladimir Putin became the Acting President of Russia on December 31, 1999. Boris Yeltsin, the then-President of Russia, resigned on the New Year’s Eve after eight years of being in office. The ...

The three and a half minute seasonal message was delivered on Tuesday, exactly 25 years since Putin took over from predecessor Boris Yeltsin, who resigned unexpectedly on the last day of 1999.

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The Putin era turns a quarter of a century old on Tuesday. Twenty-five years since December 31, 1999, when an exhausted Boris Yeltsin resigned and handed over the interim presidency, all the resources ...

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When Vladimir Putin took over as acting president of Russia at the start of the year 2000, the former spy was an enigma to many. In History looks at how the surprise leader survived a tough ...