Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (b. 1952) is the current President of the Russian Federation. He became acting President on December 31, 1999, succeeding Boris Yeltsin, and then won the 2000 presidential election. In 2004, he was re-elected for a second term, which expires on May 7, 2008.

Vladimir Putin in The Gladiator
In an alternate where the Soviet Union won the Cold War, Vladimir Putin was considered one of the great leaders of Soviet communism, along with Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. Images of the three leaders were worn on the uniforms of the Young Socialists. A statue commemorating Putin stood in Milan, Italian People's Republic.