President of the Russian Federation visits Vietnam at the state level

At the invitation of President Truong Tan Sang, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin paid a state visit to Vietnam on November 12.

Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting in the suburbs of Moscow on September 20. (Source: AFP/VNA)

President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin was born on October 7, 1952 in Leningrad. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University and is a PhD in Economics. He is fluent in German and communicates in English.

In 1975, he was assigned to work at the State Security Service. From 1985 to 1991, he worked in the German Democratic Republic. From 1991 to 1996, he worked in the Saint Petersburg city government, holding the position of Chairman of the Mayor's Committee for Foreign Relations, then Vice Chairman of the Saint Petersburg Government, First Deputy Mayor of Saint Petersburg, in charge of the city's foreign relations.

In 1996, he moved to Moscow, holding the position of Deputy Director of the Financial Management Department of the President of the Russian Federation.

On March 26, 1997, he was appointed Deputy Chief of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation. In May 1998, he became First Deputy Chief of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation, in charge of local affairs. In July 1998, he became Director of the Russian Federal Security Service. In May 1999, he became Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

On August 16, 1999, he was appointed Prime Minister of the Russian Federation by the President. On December 31, 1999, he was appointed Acting President of the Russian Federation; on March 26, 2000, he was elected President of the Russian Federation (first term); on March 14, 2004, he was elected President of the Russian Federation (second term).

From May 2008 to March 2012, he was Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. On March 4, 2012, he was elected President of the Russian Federation (third term). On May 7, 2012, he took office as President of the Russian Federation.

Accompanying the President of the Russian Federation VVPutin were Mr. Sergey V.Lavrov - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Mr. Yury V.Ushakov - Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation; Mr. Andrey G.Kovtun - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; Mr. Sergey E.Donskoy - Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation; Mr. Dmitry V.Livanov - Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation; Mr. Vladimir R.Medinsky - Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation; Mr. Nikolay A.Nikiforov - Minister of Information and Communications of the Russian Federation; Mr. Alexander V.Novak - Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation; Ms. Veronika I.Skvortsova - Minister of Health of the Russian Federation; Mr. Alexey V.Ulyukaev - Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.

The delegation also included Mr. Andrey A.Krainy - Head of the Federal Agency for Fisheries; Mr. Alexander V.Fomin - Head of the Federal Agency for Military-Technical Cooperation; Mr. Savva V.Shipov - Head of the Federal Agency for Quality Accreditation; Ms. Anna Yu.Popova - Acting Head of the Federal Agency for Supervision in the Field of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare; Mr. Arkady V.Bakhin - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation; Mr. Maxim A.Travnikov - Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation; Mr. Sergey I.Shmatko - Special Envoy of the President of the Russian Federation on international cooperation in the field of energy; Mr. Vladimir P.Buyanov - Chairman of the Central Committee of the Russia-Vietnam Friendship Association, Rector of the Moscow Academy of Economics and Law./.

According to VNA