[HIGHLIGHTS] Vladimir Putin is the “president of necessity” who emerged from the cracks of perestroika

Vladimir Putin will be president of Russia for at least another 20 years. He has been in power since 2000.

He is the most powerful man in the world, according to a recent poll. The U.S. is the second-largest economy after Russia. The United States is the largest economy in Europe, followed by the UK. The European Union is the third largest economy, after Germany and France. It is the first time since the Second World War that the European Union has been larger than the United States in terms of population.