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Vladimir Vladimirovitch Poutine , né le 7 octobre 1952 à Léningrad, aujourd'hui Saint-Pétersbourg, est un homme d'État russe, président du gouvernement de 1999 à 2000 et de 2008 à 2012, et président de la Fédération de Russie, par intérim de 1999 à 2000, puis en titre de 2000 à 2008 et depuis 2012.

Membre du KGB, principal service de renseignement de l'URSS post-stalinienne, il commence sa carrière politique à la mairie de Saint-Pétersbourg, puis devient l'un des plus proches conseillers du président Boris Eltsine, qui fera de lui le directeur du Service fédéral de sécurité en 1998, puis le président du gouvernement de la Russie l'année suivante.

À partir du 31 décembre 1999, à la suite de la démission d'Eltsine, il assure les fonctions de président de la Fédération de Russie par intérim. Il devient président de plein exercice le 7 mai 2000, après avoir remporté l'élection présidentielle dès le premier tour, dans des conditions polémiques. Confortablement réélu en 2004, il mène une grande politique de réformes marquée par un redressement de l'économie nationale et une politique institutionnelle tournée vers une concentration des pouvoirs présidentiels.

En 2008, la Constitution lui interdisant de concourir pour un troisième mandat consécutif, il soutient la candidature de Dmitri Medvedev à la présidence. Une fois élu, celui-ci le nomme président du gouvernement. Dans la foulée, Vladimir Poutine prend la direction du parti Russie unie. Régulièrement critiqué en Occident pour l'aspect autoritaire de sa gouvernance, il est pour la première fois significativement contesté à la suite des élections législatives de 2011.

Il se porte candidat à l'élection présidentielle de 2012, bénéficiant à cette occasion du soutien du président sortant, Medvedev. Le 7 mai 2012, Vladimir Poutine retrouve la fonction de président de la Fédération de Russie après sa victoire au premier tour de scrutin, pour un mandat allongé de deux ans, courant jusqu'en 2018.

✵ 7. octobre 1952   •   Autres noms Vladimir Vladimirovič Putin
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Vladimir Poutine citations célèbres

“Si vous êtes prêt à devenir le plus radical des islamistes, et que vous êtes prêt à vous faire circoncire, je vous invite à Moscou. Je recommanderai qu'on fasse l'opération de telle manière que plus rien ne repousse.”

En réponse à un journaliste occidental qui l'interrogeait sur les exactions russes en Tchétchénie lors d'une conférence de presse en novembre 2002.
Sur la Tchétchénie

“Les avions russes bombardent et bombarderont en Tchétchénie uniquement les bases de terroristes. Nous pourchasserons les terroristes partout. S'ils sont à l'aéroport, ça sera à l'aéroport. Cela veut dire, veuillez m'excuser, que si on les attrape dans les toilettes — on les butera dans les chiottes, finalement. C'est une question définitivement close.”

Российские самолёты наносят и будут наносить удары в Чечне исключительно по базам террористов, и это будет продолжаться, где бы террористы ни находились. …Мы будем преследовать террористов везде. В аэропорту — в аэропорту. Значит, вы уж меня извините, в туалете поймаем, мы и в сортире их замочим, в конце концов. Всё, вопрос закрыт окончательно.
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Déclaration faite alors qu'il était premier ministre par intérim.
Sur la Tchétchénie

Vladimir Poutine Citations

“La plupart des pays Euro-Atlantistes renient leurs principes moraux.”

Sur l’effondrement moral en Occident

“Dans 20 ans, la France deviendra la colonie de ses anciennes colonies.”

Phrase attribuée à Poutine par Marine Le Pen. Selon https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2011/08/17/45488-77-dokazatelstv-teoriii-breyvika Anders Breivik, Poutine aurait parlé de l'Europe de l'Ouest en général et non pas seulement de la France : « L'Europe occidentale est en marche vers la situation où elle deviendra la colonie de ses anciennes colonies. »
Sur l'immigration en France et en Europe de l'Ouest

“Les frontières de la Russie ne se terminent nulle part.”

Plaisanterie faite à la cérémonie de remise de prix de la Société russe de géographie, au Palais d'État du Kremlin, le 24 novembre 2016.
Sur les frontières de la Russie

“Saakachvili, je vais le faire pendre par les couilles.”

Le 12 août 2008, au cours d'une rencontre avec le président français Nicolas Sarkozy venu négocier à Moscou un cessez-le-feu en Géorgie, dirigée par le président Mikheïl Saakachvili.
Sur le conflit russo-géorgien d'août 2008

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Vladimir Poutine: Citations en anglais

“We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy that they have in Iraq, quite honestly.”

July 17, 2006, during the St. Petersburg Group of Eight summit Putin said in reply to George W. Bush, who said he hopes Russia will follow Iraq in turning to democracy
http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2006/07/bush_says_just_.html http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/15/russia.g8/index.html
2006- 2010

“I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.”

interview with TF-1 Television Channel (France) http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/text/speeches/2006/07/12/1829_type82916_108548.shtml, taken on July 12, 2006
2006- 2010

“Russia doesn't negotiate with terrorists. It destroys them.”

http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&p=29.01.2008&rt=124
2006- 2010

“Mr McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible for him to live without these disgusting scenes anymore. Mr McCain was captured and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years, Anyone [in his place] would go nuts.”

Response to John McCain's tweet "Dear Vlad, The Arab Spring is coming to a neighbourhood near you." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8958294/Vladimir-Putin-calls-John-McCain-nuts-in-outspoken-attack.html
2011 - 2015

“Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace? You find it possible to set some limitations in your dealings with these bastards, so why should we talk to people who are child-killers? No one has a moral right to tell us to talk to childkillers.”

In response to those who called Putin to enter talks with Chechen separatists after the Beslan school hostage crisis, in September 2004
[Putin rejects "child-killer talks", BBC News, 2004-09-07, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3633668.stm, 2006-07-07]
2000 - 2005

“I think there are things of which I and the people who have worked with me can feel deservedly proud. They include restoring Russia's territorial integrity, strengthening the state, progress towards establishing a multiparty system, strengthening the parliamentary system, restoring the Armed Forces' potential and, of course, developing the economy. As you know, our economy has been growing by 6.9 percent a year on average over this time, and our GDP has increased by 7.7 percent over the first four months of this year alone.
When I began my work in the year 2000, 30 percent of our population was living below the poverty line. There has been a two-fold drop in the number of people living below the poverty line since then and the figure today is around 15 percent. By 2009-2010, we will bring this figure down to 10 percent, and this will bring us in line with the European average.
We had enormous debts, simply catastrophic for our economy, but we have paid them off in full now. Not only have we paid our debts, but we now have the best foreign debt to GDP ratio in Europe. Our gold and currency reserve figures are well known: in 2000, they stood at just $12 billion and we had a debt of more than 100 percent of GDP, but now we have the third-biggest gold and currency reserves in the world and they have increased by $90 billion over the first four months of this year alone.
During the 1990s and even in 2000-2001, we had massive capital flight from Russia with $15 billion, $20 billion or $25 billion leaving the country every year. Last year we reversed this situation for the first time and had capital inflow of $41 billion. We have already had capital inflow of $40 billion over the first four months of this year. Russia's stock market capitalisation showed immense growth last year and increased by more than 50 percent. This is one of the best results in the world, perhaps even the best. Our economy was near the bottom of the list of world economies in terms of size but today it has climbed to ninth place and in some areas has even overtaken some of the other G8 countries' economies. This means that today we are able to tackle social problems. Real incomes are growing by around 12 percent a year. Real income growth over the first four months of this year came to just over 18 percent, while wages rose by 11-12 percent.
Looking at the problems we have yet to resolve, one of the biggest is the huge income gap between the people at the top and the bottom of the scale. Combating poverty is obviously one of our top priorities in the immediate term and we still have to do a lot to improve our pension system too because the correlation between pensions and the average wage is still lower here than in Europe. The gap between incomes at the top and bottom end of the scale is still high here – a 15.6-15.7-fold difference. This is less than in the United States today (they have a figure of 15.9) but more than in the UK or Italy (where they have 13.6-13.7). But this remains a big gap for us and fighting poverty is one of our biggest priorities.”

When asked in June 2007 at the interview with G8 journalists about main achievements of his presidency http://web.archive.org/web/20070607221025/http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2007/06/04/2149_type82916_132772.shtml.

“Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet.”

News conference http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,810093,00.html with then British Prime Minister Tony Blair, October 2002.
2000 - 2005

“I stress that we unambiguously support strengthening the non-proliferation regime, without any exceptions, on the basis of international law.”

Kremlin RU http://kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2006/05/10/1823_type70029type82912_105566.shtml (10 May 2006)
2006- 2010

“Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of "holy alliance."”

Kremlin RU http://web.archive.org/web/20061013001158/http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2006/06/27/2040_type82912type82913type82914_107818.shtml (27 June 2006)
2006- 2010

“He is profoundly wrong. Our country is run by the people of the Russian Federation through legitimately elected bodies of power and administration: through representative bodies (the parliament) and executive bodies (the president and the government of the Russian Federation)”

When Larry King asked that Robert Gates is wrong or right about Russia that democracy has disappeared and the government being run by the security services. (February 2010) http://en.rian.ru/interview/20101202/161586625.html
2006- 2010

“In America, torture was legalized, do you believe it?”

RT news Putin Press conf http://rt.com/news/215471-putin-press-conference-updates/ (18 December 18, 2014)
2011 - 2015

“Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.”

2006- 2010
Source: Annual Address to the Federal Assembly http://kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2006/05/10/1823_type70029type82912_105566.shtml, (10 May 2006)

“It is clear that we have to pay more, it is the simple option, not always affordable, ("but simple," said in actual recording) but the ways to solve the problem are many.”

Понятно, что надо больше платить, это самый простой вариант, не всегда возможный,(но простой) но способов решения проблемы много
On human capital flight, in address to Committee for Education, Science and Technology (26 October 2004).
2000 - 2005

“For the preservation of the majestic Russia!”

(2013) http://tvrain.ru/articles/putin_poluchil_premiju_vsemirnogo_russkogo_sobora_za_sohranenie_derzhavnoj_rossii-355720/
2011 - 2015

“We are guided by interests rather than feelings in dealing with our partners.”

10 December 2014 http://itar-tass.com/en/economy/766135, "Russia interested in US economy’s ability to resist current crisis — Russian PM"
2011 - 2015

“As for some countries’ concerns about Russia's possible aggressive actions, I think that only an insane person and only in a dream can imagine that Russia would suddenly attack NATO. I think some countries are simply taking advantage of people’s fears with regard to Russia. They just want to play the role of front-line countries that should receive some supplementary military, economic, financial or some other aid. Therefore, it is pointless to support this idea; it is absolutely groundless. But some may be interested in fostering such fears. I can only make a conjecture.

For example, the Americans do not want Russia's rapprochement with Europe. I am not asserting this, it is just a hypothesis. Let’s suppose that the United States would like to maintain its leadership in the Atlantic community. It needs an external threat, an external enemy to ensure this leadership. Iran is clearly not enough – this threat is not very scary or big enough. Who can be frightening? And then suddenly this crisis unfolds in Ukraine. Russia is forced to respond. Perhaps, it was engineered on purpose, I don’t know. But it was not our doing.

Let me tell you something – there is no need to fear Russia. The world has changed so drastically that people with some common sense cannot even imagine such a large-scale military conflict today. We have other things to think about, I assure you.”

2015-06-06, Interview to the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera. http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/49629
2011 - 2015

“In any case, I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig – lots of screams but little wool.”

On not wanting to deal with the US re: Edward Snowden, 25 June 2013 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/25/edward-snowden-moscow-vladimir-putin. guardian.co.uk
2011 - 2015

“If you want to become an Islamic fundamentalist and be circumcised, come to Moscow. We are multiconfessional. We have very good specialists. I can recommend one for the operation. He'll make sure nothing grows back.”

In response to a journalist who asked about Russian abuses in Chechnya during a press conference in November 2002 Newsbusters http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/12/30/ouch-putin-answer-about-terrorism-stuns-press-conference-silence#ixzz2Wxbq9sOU
2000 - 2005

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