President Vladimir Putin said air strikes did nothing to settle the situation around Iraq and urged any action taken against it to be sanctioned by the United Nations.

Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (Russian: Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев; born September 14, 1965 in Leningrad), is a Russian politician and businessman. He was appointed first deputy prime minister of the Russian government on November 14, 2005. Formerly Vladimir Putin's chief of staff, he is also the chairman of Gazprom's board of directors, a post he has held for the second time since 2000.

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (February 1 1931 - April 23 2007) was the first president of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. Yeltsin came to power on a wave of high expectations. On 12 June 1991 he was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic with 57% of the vote, becoming the first popularly elected president in Russian history.

Vladimir Yevgenyevich Churov is a Russian official and politician. Since March 262007, he has been a member (delegated by the State Duma) and the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Russia. In 1977 he graduated from the Department of Physics at Leningrad State University. In 1992 – 2003 he worked on the Committee for External Relations of the Saint Petersburg Mayor's Office, in 1992 – 1996 under Vladimir Putin, …

Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko was a Soviet politician and General Secretary of the CPSU who led the Soviet Union from February 13, 1984 until his death just thirteen months later on March 10, 1985. Chernenko was also Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from April 11, 1984, until his death.

Tatyana Dyachenko (b. 1960) (also Tatiana, also Diyachenko or Jachenko, now Yumashev) is a daughter of President Boris Yeltsin; she was trained in computer science. Yeltsin made her his personal advisor in 1996 when his re-election campaign was faltering. A memoir written by Boris Yeltsin, as reported by the New York Times credited her with advising against "banning Communist Party, …

Sergey Mikhailovich Mironov (born February 14, 1953), is a Russian statesman and the current Speaker of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament. Sergey Mironov is from Saint Petersburg and is considered to be a close ally of the Russian president Vladimir Putin. In the 1970's Sergey Mironov served in airborne troops in the Soviet Army. Later he graduated from Leningrad Mining Institute worked as an engineer-geophysicist.

Aman (Amangeldy) Gumirovich Tuleyev is the governor of Kemerovo Oblast. He ran for President of Russia in 1991, 1996 (withdrawing during the campaign) and 2000, both times coming fourth. Tuleyev was born of Kazakh parents in Krasnovodsk, Turkmenistan, on 1944-05-13.

Andrey Nikolayevich Illarionov is a Russian libertarian economist and former economic policy advisor to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.

Sergey Mikhaylovich Darkin (b. December 9, 1963 in Bolshoy Kamen, Primorsky Krai) is the current Governor of Primorsky Krai, Russia. Darkin attended school in Artyom and later in Vesyoly Yar settlement. After graduating from school he entered the Far Eastern Naval College and simultaneously started work as a docker in the port of Vladivostok. He graduated from the college with high honors in 1985 and chose to continue with graduate studies.

Alexander Vladimirovich Rutskoy (b. September 16, 1945) is a Russian politician and a former Soviet military officer. Rutskoy served as the first and only Vice President of Russia from July 10, 1991 to October 4, 1993, and as the governor of Kursk Oblast from 1996 to 2000. In the course of the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, he was proclaimed acting president of Russia, in opposition to Boris Yeltsin.

Viktor Kazantsev was an envoy of the Russian president who performed primary negotiations between the Russian government and the Chechen opposition. Decorated with the Hero of the Russian Federation title, he was involved in coordinating the government responses to various violent actions in Chechnya. Kazanstev was also involved in coordinating the rescue attempt during the Moscow theatre hostage situation, which took place in October of 2002.

Gennady Troshev is a former general in the Russian military and was formerly the commander of the North Caucasus Military District, includingChechnya. He publicly defied, on national television, Minister of Defense Sergi Ivanov's suggestion that Troshev should relocate from Chechnya (the North Caucasus Military District) to a region in Siberia. Due to this act, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree dismissing Troshev from his post in 2002.

Sergey Semyonovich Sobyanin (born July 21, 1958 in the village of Nyaksimvol of Beryozovsky District of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug) is a former governor of Tyumen Oblast, Russian state and political figure, head of the Administration of the President of Russia. He is onsidered to be a close ally of Vladimir Bogdanov, Director General of Surgutneftegaz.,, After leaving the local school in Beryozovsky District in 1975, he matriculated into the TU of Kostroma.

Sofia Rotaru is a Soviet / Ukrainian singer from an ethnic Moldovan family. She has sung songs in Russian, Ukrainian and Romanian languages, which were equally popular throughout the Soviet Union (e.g. such superhits as "Chervona ruta" (Червона рута) in Ukrainian, "Романтикэ" (Romantika), in Moldavian). Her songs have become the classics of Soviet and post-Soviet stage.

Deputy Sergey Yurievich Glazyev, Ph.D. (born January 1, 1961) is a Russian politician and former candidate for President of Russia in 2004. Born in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Glazyev attended Moscow State University, earning a bachelor's degree, master's degree, and finally a Doctor of Philosophy, all in economics. He left the university in 1990. The next year, he entered government service, becoming First Deputy Minister of External Economic Relations under Yegor Gaidar.

Hazret Medzhidovich Sovmen (born May 1, 1937) was the second President of the Republic of Adygea in the Russian Federation, having succeeded Aslan Dzharimov at the post. Sovmen is a university professor hailing from Maykop. Before he became the President Hazret Sovmen had been a successful businessman (with links to Russian entrepreneurs in Siberia), having started off as a bulldozer driver in a gold mine in Chukotka.

Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev a Russian historian, was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and graduated from the Leningrad University. During the Soviet era, Medvedev criticized Stalin and Stalinism from a Marxist viewpoint. Medvedev became a researcher at the Education Academy after joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956. In the early 1960s, he was engaged in samizdat publications. In 1969, Medvedev was purged from the CPSU after the publication of his book, …

Mukhu Gimbatovich Aliyev (born August 6, 1940) is the President of the Republic of Dagestan, a federal subject of Russia. He was born in the village of Tanusi, Khunzakhsky District, Dagestan. Ethnically he is Avar. He was the speaker of the Republic's parliament before being accepted as the President by the Dagestan parliament on February 20, 2006, having been nominated by the Russian President Vladimir Putin to replace Dagestan's long-time leader Magomedali Magomedov.

Tatyana Zaslavskaya is a Russian economical sociologist, a theoretician of perestroika, an author and co-author of several books in economy of the Soviet Union (specializing in agriculture) and in sociology of the countryside and a large number of research papers; she was a member of the Consulting Committee to the President of Russia from 1991 to 1992. In 2000 she won the Demidov Prize.

Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov "; born August 8, 1927 – June 2, 2000) was a Russian ophthalmologist, eye microsurgeon, creator of radial keratotomy, professor, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and politician. Fyodorov was born in "Proskurov" (now Khmelnytskyy, Ukraine), graduated from Rostov Medical Institute, then worked as a practicing ophthalmologist in a small town in Rostov Oblast.

Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia is considered by some to be the heir apparent to the disputed Headship of the Imperial Family of Russia, and uses as his title and style of pretension Tsarevich and Grand Duke of Russia. He has all his life been styled His Imperial Highness Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia, by grant of his maternal grandfather.

is the wife of Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan, the first son of the Emperor Akihito and the Empress Michiko, and a member of the Japanese imperial family through marriage. She was born, the eldest daughter of Hisashi Owada, a senior diplomat. She has two younger sisters, twins named Setsuko and Reiko. Masako went to live in Moscow, Russia with her parents when she was two years old, and attended kindergarten in Moscow. Upon returning to Japan, she attended a private girl's school, …

Viktor Vladimirovich Ponedelnik (born May 22, 1937 in Rostov-on-Don) is a former Soviet football player, regarded as one of the best strikers in Soviet football history. Ponedelnik first started playing for a local team, Rostselmash, in 1956. In 1958 he switched to "SKA Rostov-on-Don" and was invited to join the Soviet national team. In the 1960 European Championship, the only major Championship ever won by the Soviet Union, …

Maria Strelnikova was allegedly born on March 15, 1890 in the Ukrainian village Samara region of Russia, and she lives in the town of Vyborg. In March 2005, Maria was reported to celebrate her 115th birthday, receiving congratulations from the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. It is unknown whether she is still alive as of 2007, but if she is she might be the world's oldest living person.

Mikhail Gorbachev served as leader of the Soviet Union from 1985-1991. He is world-renowned and admired for streamlining and decentralizing the oppressive system he inherited. In an effort to secure relations with the West, Gorbachev signed two broad disarmament pacts, and ended Communist rule in Eastern Europe. He taught the world two new words: perestroika (governmental restructuring) and glasnost (political openness).

Sergei Artemov is a noted specialist in mathematical logic and theoretical computer science. His areas of expertise are proof theory, knowledge representation, and automatic deduction and verification. He is credited with solving some long-standing problems in logic and applications. His recent projects include a theory of evidence-based knowledge, automatic detection of flaws in proofs, a process that is used to help ensure that critical software is free of errors.

I am the President of Russia that is all you need to know!

Hey I'm Vladimir and I'm a Russian president. I was born on October 7, 1952 in St. Petersburg, Russia at 9:30 AM. I grew up an only child because one of my brothers died shortly after birth, and the other died of diphtheria during WWII. I studied law at the Leningrad State University in St. Petersburg and graduated in 1975. I've been told i am an excellent speaker by many people. My nickname is "Grey Cardinal.

Being El Presidente of a 17,075,400 km² country can be a little stressful. On one hand I have to keep UN happy to avoid being bombed by American military, on the other I have to try and stop National Socialist movements taking over the cities in my country. If only the KGB hadn't been disbanded...

Yevgeny G. Yasin (67 years of age) served as a Minister of the Russian Federation from March 1997 until July 1998, responsible for economic issues. In November 1994, he was appointed Minister of Economics of the Russian Federation. With a doctorate degree in economics, Mr. Yasin is a professor and academic head of the High School of Economics. In April 1994, he was appointed head of the Analytical Center of the Presidential Administration.

In 1930, Ignaty Yeltsin , a well-off peasant of Butka village, Sverdlovsk region, was declared kulak . His house, his mill, and other valuables were confiscated. According to different sources, Ignaty Yeltsin either fled the village to avoid further persecution, or was sent to internal Northern exile. On February 1, 1931, Ignaty 's grandson, Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin , was born in Butka.