Vladimir Putin

Leadership & Staff

Dmitry Peskov Press Secretary for the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin

• Press secretary ('12→?)

Sergey Naryshkin Director, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)

• chief of staff (past)

Yevgeny Primakov The Ideological Godfather of Putinism

• close aide (past)*

Sergei B Ivanov Former KGB general and Kremlin chief of staff

• Chief of staff (?→Aug '16)

Dmitry Medvedev 3rd President of the Russian Federation 2008-2012; Prime Minister of Russia

• Chief of staff ('03→?)

Andrei Illarionov Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

• top economic adviser ('00→'05)

Alexander Voloshin

• Chief of Staff (past)

Dmitry Kozak Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

• trusted advisor

Board Memberships

Russian Federation Security Council A consultative body of the Russian President

• Chairman

Positions

Saint Petersburg State University The oldest and one of the largest universities in Russia

• assistant to the rector ('90→?)*

Government Positions

Russia

• President (May 7 '12→?) [+2]

• President ('00→'08)

• Prime Minister (Aug '99→'00)

Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation Principal security agency of Russia and main successor agency to the KGB

• Director (Jul '98→'99)

St. Petersburg City Government Russia's second largest city

• First Deputy Mayor ('94→'96)

KGB The main security agency for the Soviet Union 1954-1991

• Position ('75→'90)

Family

Ksenia Sobchak Russian media, political figure, Putin's goddaughter

• Goddaughter

Lyudmila Putin Former wife of Russian President Vladimir Putin; Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications

• wife (past)*

Kirill Shamalov Russian businessman, son of an old friend of Vladamir Putin; sanctioned by the US Treasury in April 2018

• son-in-law

Igor Putin Russian banker, cousin of Vladimir Putin

• cousin

Maria Putina Daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin

• Daughter

Katerina Tikhonova Daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin

• Daughter

Services & Transactions

Rainmaker Interactive Rainmaker Interactive was founded to serve the advertising, marketing, public relations, Web, and business development needs of new companies in the Internet arena.

• client

Gleb Pavlovsky Russian political consultant

• political consultant ('00→?)

Schools

Saint Petersburg State University The oldest and one of the largest universities in Russia

• Bachelor's Degree, law ('70→'75)

Social

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Donald Trump 45th President of the United States; Former host of The Apprentice Reality show; Real estate developer

• diplomatic associate

Rand Paul US Senator from Kentucky

• Trump-Putin messenger ('18→?)

Daniil Bisslinger A Russian foreign-service officer associated with Peter Thiel

• Professional

Michael T. Flynn Former National Security Adviser, Donald Trump | Former Intelligence Officer US Army | Chairman of the Board, America's Future, Inc.

• Social

Jill Stein Green Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 and 2016 elections

• Social

Daryna Medvedchuk Youngest daughter of Viktor Medvedchuk; Putin is her godfather; Svetlana wife of Dmitri Medvedev is her godmother

• Goddaughter

Georgiy Alexandrovich Shevkunov Is a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church and a popular writer. He is the Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov and was in 2015–2018 the head of the Western Vicariat [ru] of Moscow city.

• personal confessor

Rex Tillerson former Secretary of State. former Chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil. former Boy Scouts president.

• friend

Suleyman Kerimov Russian billionaire investor; sanctioned by the US Treasury in April 2018

• close personal friend

Viktor Medvedchuk Ukrainian politician, lawyer, businessman. chair of pro-Russian Ukrainian Choice group

• close friend ('03→?)

Miscellaneous Relationships

Elon Musk Tesla, SpaceX CEO

• Affiliation ('22→?)

Tucker Carlson former Fox News television host

• Affiliation

Richard Spencer White nationalist, director of National Policy Institute

• admirer

Aleksandr Zaldostanov Leader of Australian branch of the Night Wolves biker gang, a Kremlin-backed far-right paramilitary group, is posting war propaganda from the group's Moscow leader.

• associate

Kirill Dmitriev CEO, Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), a $10 billion sovereign wealth fund created by the Russian government; board member, Mobile TeleSystems

• Affiliation

Russian Presidential Council Putin's organization

• organization