KGB to Prime Minister to President

in 1942(bio.com). After graduating, Putin would follow in his father's footsteps and join the KGB, the military service for the Soviet Union. From 1975-1991 Putin had various roles in the KGB, finally retiring as Lieutenant Colonel. Putin's service in the military helped him become the assertive political figure that he is today. Vladimir Putin does not promote justice because he became prime minister in

Russia and became a friend to his mentor Anatoly Sobchack. In 1975, he graduated from Leningrad University with a law degree and began the training in Soviet Union security agency known as KGB. Beginning from 1985, he spent five years as a spy in East Germany. After returning to Leningrad, he stayed with the KGB and worked as a surveillance officer at Alma mater. 2. Subsequently, he retired from state security committee in the year

presidency as a KGB operative in Germany in the last few years the USSR remained to stand. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Putin moved back to St. Petersburg and took a job in the mayor's office as an advisor on international affairs. That was when he began his slow crawl to power eventually earning the position of Prime Minister under the presidency of Boris Yeltsin. At the end of Yeltsin's weak and controversial presidency, the Russian people were eager to find a president who was strong

an interest in sports, and focused more on that than his learning. In 1970, Putin became a student at Leningrad University, majoring in law. After graduating in 1975, he had his mind set on becoming an intelligence officer for the KGB. He started training at the KGB school in Okhta, Leningrad. From there he began

State University and then served as a foreign intelligence officer for the KGB for fifteen years. Putin reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1990 and then retired from the KGB and returned to Russia. Soon Putin became an advisor for Sobchak, who was the first democratically elected mayor of St. Petersburg. Putin moved to Moscow in 1996 and started working as a deputy for Pavel Borodin. He was then appointed to prime

Leningrad State University, where he would find his ticket to the top of politics in the form of a professor. His name was Anatoly Sobchak, a teacher in Putin’s second semester of collage. After Putin attended the university he was offered a job with the KGB, one of the only ones in his class, where he would achieve his dream of being a spy. He was located in Eastern Germany as an undercover agent to spy for the USSR and was able to fit in with the Germans, gaining important information for Russia. Vladimir

authoritarianism, giving much of the governmental power to its current president, Vladimir Putin. In contrast, another semi-presidential system, the government of France, is a strong democracy. France’s government has been largely successful since the creation of the Fifth Republic in 1958 and the most recent constitution. In addition to this, the roles of the president and prime minister have been balanced and checked since President Charles de Gaulle stepped down in 1969. These two countries, while

The Prince is a renown political treatise written in the 16th century by an Italian diplomat Niccoló Machiavelli. Throughout history it has been read by those interested in politics and used as guide for many famous dictators in recent times such as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. In this treatise, Machiavelli asserts key principles that lay out the foundation of how to gain and maintain power for those who seek it. These key methods which were originally intended as a guide for an efficient democratic

The Prince is a renown political treatise written in the 16th century by an Italian diplomat Niccoló Machiavelli. Throughout history it has been read by those interested in politics and used as guide for many famous dictators in recent times such as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. In this treatise, Machiavelli asserts key principles that lay out the foundation of how to gain and maintain power for those who seek it. These key methods which were originally intended as a guide for an efficient democratic

centralized or unitary power in which the state had all the control within the country. The new system is a combination of a semi-presidential and federalism system where all the power is controlled by one man, Vladimir Putin. Putin had experience in the KGB (Committee on State Security) where this agency protected the country from threats internal and external forces. This exposure gave him access to government leaders and political