Documentaire sur vladimir putin biography bbc

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Russian president Boris Yeltsin made the shock announcement on 31 December 1999 that he was resigning, telling television viewers that Russia needed "new politicians, new faces, new intelligent, strong and energetic people". Amid widespread corruption and huge political and social problems, Yeltsin's presidency had become increasingly unpopular and unpredictable. While he played a key role in bringing down the Soviet Union in 1991, his time in office had been a traumatic period for Russia as it transformed from a communist state-run economy to a free-market one.

At midnight, Yeltsin's heir apparent Vladimir Putin made his first televised address as acting president. "There will be no power vacuum," he promised. There was a warning, too. "Any attempt to exceed the limits of law and the Russian constitution will be decisively crushed," he said. The lean, fit and sober Putin proved popular in a country used to the erratic behaviour of Yeltsin, who was so boozy and unhealthy that it was sometimes a news story when he managed just to make it into the office.

When Putin became prime minister in August 1999, he was an

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Vladimir Putin: From Russia's KGB to a long presidency defined by war in Ukraine

Four years later, Chechen rebels took 1,000 hostages, most of them children, at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia. When Russian special forces stormed the building, 330 people died. It later emerged that Russia had intelligence of a planned attack but had failed to act.

The first years of the Putin presidency were both bloody and turbulent, but the Russian economy was doing well, buoyed by high oil prices.

He won public support for taking on the billionaire oligarchs who had run rife in Russia in the 1990s. Summoning them to the Kremlin, he said they could keep their money as long as they kept out of politics and backed him.

He acted fast against those who didn't, such as Russia's then-wealthiest man Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was arrested at gunpoint and jailed in Siberia.

Russia's president had something of a honeymoon with the West. He was one of the first foreign leaders to ring President George W Bush after the 9/11 al-Qaeda attacks on the US. He even helped the US launch its ensuing campaign in Afghanistan.

"I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy," said President Bush.

But Vladimir Putin soon became disillusion