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  2. List of presidents of Russia - Wikipedia

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    The office of the president of Russia is the highest authority in the Russian Federation.The holder is the federation's head of state and has formal presidency over the State Council as well as being the commander in chief of the Russian Armed Forces.

  3. Vladimir Putin - Wikipedia

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    [f] [7] He is the longest-serving Russian president since the independence of Russia from the Soviet Union. Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He resigned in 1991 to begin a political career in Saint Petersburg.

  4. President of Russia - Wikipedia

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    The president of Russia, officially the president of the Russian Federation (Russian: Президент Российской Федерации, romanized: Prezident Rossiyskoy Federatsii), is the executive head of state of Russia. The president is the chair of the Federal State Council and the supreme commander-in-chief of the Russian Armed ...

  5. Help:IPA/Russian - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Russian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Russian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  6. Dmitry Medvedev - Wikipedia

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    On 7 May 2012, the same day he ceased to be the president of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev was nominated by President Vladimir Putin to the office of prime minister. [133] [134] On 8 May 2012, the State Duma of the Russian Federation voted on the nomination submitted by the new president and confirmed the choice of Medvedev to the post.

  7. Ya (Cyrillic) - Wikipedia

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    In Russian, the letter has little use in loanwords and orthographic transcriptions of foreign words. A notable exception is the use of ля Russian pronunciation: to transcribe /la/, mostly from Romance languages, Polish, German and Arabic. This makes л to match better than its dark l pronunciation in ла .

  8. Russian orthography - Wikipedia

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    borrowed words and foreign names are usually spelled as orthographic transcriptions, or, more precisely, mixed transcriptions-transliterations based mainly on original pronunciation (Jacques-Yves Cousteau is rendered in Russian as Жак-Ив Кусто; the English name Paul is rendered as Пол, the French name Paul as Поль, the German ...

  9. Elvira Nabiullina - Wikipedia

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    Elvira Sakhipzadovna Nabiullina [a] (born 29 October 1963) is a Russian economist and current governor of the Central Bank of Russia.She was President Vladimir Putin's economic adviser from May 2012 to June 2013 after serving as the minister of economic development from September 2007 to May 2012.