Putin set to be in power as long as Stalin

If Vladimir Putin, Russia’s longest serving leader since Joseph Stalin, wins a fourth term as president and serves until its end, he will near 25 years in power – almost as long as the dictator’s 29-year rule


DAYS IN OFFICE	Soviet Union 	Russian Federation

0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000

Joseph Stalin 1924-53	10,636

Vladimir Putin 1999-	6,789 To Mar 18, 2008 election	8,981 To Mar 18, 2024

Leonid Brezhnev 1964-82	6,601

3,536 Nikita Khrushchev 1955-64

3,096 Boris Yeltsin 1991-99

2,480 Mikhail Gorbachev 1985-91

1,461 Dmitry Medvedev 2008-12

705 Georgy Malenkov 1953-55

454 Yuri Andropov 1982-84

391 Konstantin Chernenko 1984-85

387 Vladimir Lenin 1922-24


PUTIN RULE

Prime Minister under Yeltsin 1999-2000

First two presidential terms 2000-08

Prime Minister under Medvedev 2008-12

Third presidential term 2012-18

So far, four U.S. presidents, four British prime ministers and two German
chancellors have been elected since Putin came to power

Bill Clinton

George W. Bush

Barack Obama

Donald Trump


Source: Washington Post 
Pictures: AP, Newscom, Getty Images, The White House 
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