Vladimir Putin: Russia's chief Vladimir Putin: The autocrat eyeing a new world order

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is running for a fifth term in office this week, has over the past two decades built up a system of domestic repression and confrontation with the West that is almost certain to guarantee his re-election. Putin won his first presidential election in March 2000 and a second term in 2004.

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