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May 7, - Putin is sworn in for his second term. April 27, - Becomes the first Russian leader to visit Israel. December 19, - Named Time magazine's Person of the Year. March 2, - Dmitry Medvedev is elected president of Russia. May 7, - Just two hours after his presidential swearing in, Medvedev names Putin as prime minister. August - Russia engages in a military conflict with neighboring Georgia. September 24, - Medvedev calls on the ruling United Russia party to endorse Putin for president in Putin in turn suggests that Medvedev should take over the role of prime minister if the party wins parliamentary elections in December.
Critics question the results amid complaints of voter fraud. May 7, - Putin is sworn in under tight security. Hundreds of protestors are detained by police. December 14, - US President Barack Obama signs the Magnitsky Act, a law that imposes travel and financial restrictions on individuals in Russia suspected of human rights violations.
The law is named for Sergey Magnitsky, a lawyer who died under mysterious circumstances in after finding evidence that Russian officials committed tax fraud. December 28, - In response to the Magnitsky act, Putin signs into law a bill that effectively bans US citizens from adopting Russian children.
The law also bans US-funded civic groups from operating in Russia. June 6, - During an interview broadcast on state-run television, Putin and his wife, Lyudmila, announce that their marriage is over.
August 6, - Putin signs a decree that bans food and agricultural imports from countries that have imposed sanctions against Russia. The two leaders discuss Ukraine and Syria, according to senior US officials.
It is their first in-person meeting since Russia's incursion into Ukraine. July 25, - The FBI announces it has launched an investigation into the hacking of the Democratic National Committee's computer system. Although the statement doesn't indicate that the agency has a particular suspect or suspects in mind, US officials tell CNN they think the cyberattack is linked to Russia. September 1, - During a Bloomberg News interview, Putin denies that the Russian government had any involvement in the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails.
December 30, - Putin says that Russia will not expel American diplomats in response to the Obama administration's new sanctions and expulsion of 35 diplomats from the United States. He says he will instead try to rebuild relations with the incoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump.
January 6, - The US Office of the Director of National Intelligence releases a declassified report concluding that Putin ordered an "influence campaign" aimed at hurting Hillary Clinton and helping Trump in the presidential election.
January 17, - At a news conference, Putin says that a damning dossier about Trump is "false" and he dismisses allegations that his country's security services have been monitoring the US president-elect. July 7, - Meets Trump for the first time on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. During a two-hour meeting, the men reportedly discuss allegations of Russian meddling in the US election and the war in Syria, among other things.
Hours later, they talk again informally during a dinner with other heads of state. July 30, - Putin announces that Russia is implementing a series of measures in response to a new sanctions bill approved by Trump. He says that staffers at US diplomatic missions in Russia will be ousted from their jobs.
March 1, - During his annual address to Parliament, Putin boasts about the country's nuclear capabilities, declaring that Russian missiles can elude air defense systems. In a video simulation, nuclear warheads are shown flying through space and raining down on a peninsula that resembles the state of Florida. March 18, - Putin wins the election, with His most prominent challenger, opposition leader Alexei Navalny was barred from running.
International election monitors say that the votes were tallied in an orderly manner but they criticize the state-run media coverage of the presidential race, which heavily promoted Putin.
May 7, - Is sworn in as president for another six years. July 16, - Putin and Trump meet in Helsinki and hold a joint news conference. Trump declines to endorse the US government's assessment that Russia interfered in the election. November 28, - Authorities in the United Kingdom assess that Putin approved a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy. One other woman who came into contact with the poison died. The summit includes one-on-one talks, but it does not include any signed agreements or joint statements.
Pompeo says he wants the countries to work together "to make our two peoples more, and frankly the world, more successful too. October 22, - Putin meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi and the men announce a wide-ranging agreement on Syria, announcing that Russian and Turkish troops will patrol the Turkish-Syrian border.
Kurdish forces have about six days to retreat about 20 miles away from the border. January 15, - Putin announces plans to push through reforms that would make his successor as president less powerful. For Russia's party of power, it's job done. United Russia is confident that it has retained its parliamentary majority, albeit with a slightly smaller share of the vote than last time round.
Judging by last night's celebrations at party headquarters, the party faithful are more than pleased with the result. United Russia insists it won this race fair and square.
But even before the first ballots were cast in the marathon vote, this election looked anything but fair. The Kremlin's most vocal critics had been barred from running - among them, supporters of Mr Navalny. Then there was the voting process itself. Over three days of polling there were allegations of widespread electoral fraud, including ballot box stuffing and threats against election observers.
Video widely shared online showed people stuffing papers into ballot boxes. Mr Navalny and his allies had called on Russians to vote tactically, in many cases for Communist Party candidates they believed could defeat incumbents from United Russia. But this has not prevented the Kremlin's party from securing a large slice of the new parliament. The election saw a number of cities introduce electronic voting. One such city was the capital, Moscow, where some Communist Party candidates lost leads when electronic votes were declared at the last minute.
For the first time since , election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe OSCE were not present due to limitations imposed by Russian authorities.
A European Union spokesman said the elections were not properly monitored, nor conducted in a free and fair way. On Monday, independent vote monitoring group Golos - which the Russian authorities have branded "a foreign agent" - said it had received about 5, reports of possible voting violations.
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