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To: NRx
For 16 years Putin was an officer in the KGB, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before he retired to enter politics in his native Saint Petersburg in 1991.

He moved to Moscow in 1996 and joined President Boris Yeltsin’s administration where he rose quickly, becoming Acting President on 31 December 1999 when Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned. Putin won the subsequent 2000 presidential election, despite widespread accusations of vote-rigging,[3] and was reelected in 2004.”

On 25 July 1998, Yeltsin appointed Vladimir Putin head of the FSB (one of the successor agencies to the KGB), the position Putin occupied until August 1999. He became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation on 1 October 1998 and its Secretary on 29 March 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin

13 posted on 10/04/2015 11:39:09 AM PDT by ETL (Too many idiots, not enough time)
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To: ETL

FSB has been noted as having this killers name listed as ISIS/L supporter...anyone else seen that. ..


28 posted on 10/04/2015 1:10:44 PM PDT by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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