How Putin Came to Power

Name: How Putin Came to Power
Director: Tania Rakhmanova
Released: 2005-01-01
Duration: 3120000 s
Rating: 10

Directed by Tania Rakhmanova

2005 52m

10.0

In August 1999, Vladimir V. Putin, head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), successor to the KGB, was appointed Prime Minister. On December 31st of that year, Boris Yeltsin announced that Putin would succeed him as President of the Russian Federation. How Putin Came to Power traces the stunningly rapid ascension of this political unknown to leadership of the Kremlin.