Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin20 August 1991
Putin resigns from the state security services during the KGB-supported abortive putsch against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
Russia · Politics / KGB (Committee for State Security). Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Putin resigns from the state security services during the KGB-supported abortive putsch against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
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