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Lacking information , families of the victims Catastrophe engaged Participation in an angry and volatile meeting Social_event with newly elected Choosing President Vladimir Putin .

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Request the most seriously injured Bodily_harm to be flown Motion to Moscow for specialist treatment Cure .

On 22–23 February 2014 , Russian president Vladimir Putin convened Come_together an all-night meeting Social_event with security service Supply chiefs to discuss Communication the extrication Rescuing of the deposed Ukrainian president , Viktor Yanukovych .

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The explosion came two days after Vladimir Putin won reelection Change_of_leadership and several weeks after a suicide bombing killed Killing 41 Moscow subway passengers .

The assassination Killing of Boris Nemtsov , a Russian politician opposed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to the government of Vladimir Putin , happened Presence in central Moscow on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge at 23:31 local time on 27 February 2015 .

Following the election Choosing of Vladimir Putin in Russia in 2000 and a pro-Western change Change of power in Georgia in 2003 , relations between Russia and Georgia began Process_start to deteriorate Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale , reaching Arriving a full diplomatic crisis by April 2008 .

The Games Competition were officially opened Process_start by President Vladimir Putin .

The Slovakia Summit 2005 was a summit Social_event meeting Social_event between United States President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin ( hence also known as the Bush-Putin summit ) .