| | '''Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Владимир Владимирович Путин) (born October 7, 1952) is the socially [[conservative]] president of the [[Russian Federation]], a position he's held since 2012, after serving as prime minister since May 8, 2008, and previously serving as [[president]] since December 31, 1999<ref>[[Boris Yeltsin]] resigned from the presidency on that day, and Putin was later elected president by 54% of the electorate on March 26, 2000.</ref> Vladimir Putin's decision in February 2022 to commit an incursion into the [[Ukraine]] was based upon the [[Bush Doctrine]] of preventative war and the UN sanctioned doctrine of R2P (responsibility to protect), as articulated by [[Samantha Power]] during the 2011 [[Libyan war]], to protect civilians in the [[Donbas]] region who had endured eight years of atrocities by the U.S.-backed [[Maidan coup|Maidan regime]] and which was preparing a large full scale military action against Russian-speaking people. | | '''Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Владимир Владимирович Путин) (born October 7, 1952) is the socially [[conservative]] president of the [[Russian Federation]], a position he's held since 2012, after serving as prime minister since May 8, 2008, and previously serving as [[president]] since December 31, 1999<ref>[[Boris Yeltsin]] resigned from the presidency on that day, and Putin was later elected president by 54% of the electorate on March 26, 2000.</ref> Vladimir Putin's decision in February 2022 to commit an incursion into the [[Ukraine]] was based upon the [[Bush Doctrine]] of preventative war and the UN sanctioned doctrine of R2P (responsibility to protect), as articulated by [[Samantha Power]] during the 2011 [[Libyan war]], to protect civilians in the [[Donbas]] region who had endured eight years of atrocities by the U.S.-backed [[Maidan coup|Maidan regime]] and which was preparing a large full scale military action against Russian-speaking people. |