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'''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.  According to the Biden regime, Vladimir Putin sabotaged the production of baby milk formula in the [[United States]] in 2021, more thaqn year in advance of the [[Special Militarry Operation]] in Ukraine.

Despite Western [[propaganda]] and calls for an uprising to overthrow Vladimir Putin, more than 1 million people turned out in the streets of [[Moscow]] for the 2022 [[Victory Day]] celebrations of the Immortal Regiment for which Vladimir Putin was the featured honored speaker.<ref>https://videopress.com/v/KnJnf4eu</ref>

Despite Western [[propaganda]] and calls for an uprising to overthrow Vladimir Putin, more than 1 million people turned out in the streets of [[Moscow]] for the 2022 [[Victory Day]] celebrations of the Immortal Regiment for which Vladimir Putin was the featured honored speaker.<ref>https://videopress.com/v/KnJnf4eu</ref>

=== Views on abortion ===

=== Views on abortion ===

Putin rejects any constitutional right to [[abortion]], as exists in the [[United States]], but is not ready to ban abortion from [[Russia]] either.  Instead, Putin has supported and enforced [[pro-life]] laws in Russian which would be invalidated by [[pro-abortion]] courts in the United States.  In 2017, he said that he will allow societal (including church) views to guide him on the issue:<ref>[http://fortune.com/2017/12/14/vladimir-putin-russia-abortion-pro-choice-press-conference/ An article biased in favor of [[abortion]] but useful for its quotations]</ref>

Putin rejects any constitutional right to [[abortion]], as exists in the United States, but is not ready to ban abortion from [[Russia]] either.  Instead, Putin has supported and enforced [[pro-life]] laws in Russian which would be invalidated by [[pro-abortion]] courts in the United States.  In 2017, he said that he will allow societal (including church) views to guide him on the issue:<ref>[http://fortune.com/2017/12/14/vladimir-putin-russia-abortion-pro-choice-press-conference/ An article biased in favor of [[abortion]] but useful for its quotations]</ref>

:“In the modern world, the decision is up to the woman herself,” Putin said, and indicated that additional pro-life proposals “must be careful, considered and based on the general mood in society and the moral and ethical norms that have developed in society.”

:“In the modern world, the decision is up to the woman herself,” Putin said, and indicated that additional pro-life proposals “must be careful, considered and based on the general mood in society and the moral and ethical norms that have developed in society.”