In 1996, Sobchak lost his reelection campaign; Putin subsequently resigned from the city government out of loyalty to his old teacher. Although Sobchak was charged with official corruption after leaving office, Putin remained virtually untouched by the allegations. He was offered a Kremlin post in 1997, as the deputy to Pavel Borodin, the head of the powerful Kremlin property department in Moscow.
The former KGB agent rise in the ranks of power in the Kremlin was swift and dramatic: in 1998, then-President Boris Yeltsin appointed Putin as chief of the Federal Security Service, the domestic successor to the KGB. In August 1999, as conflict in the southwestern Russian republic of Chechnya began to heat up, Yeltsin named the 47-year old Putin as prime minister .
At first, few thought that Putin, as the ailing Yeltsin self-chosen successor, would be a viable candidate for president of Russia. But the new prime minister strong hand in both domestic and international politics specially his notoriously hard-line stance against Chechen rebels warned him skyrocketing approval ratings and the reputation as Russia most popular politician.
On December 31, 1999, Yeltsin resigned as president, six months before the end of his term. In a move clearly calculated to attract the most possible international attention, he appointed Putin acting president, announcing that Russia must enter the new millennium with new politicians, with new personalities and with new smart, strong and energetic people.? If Putin s actual agenda for Russia remained unclear throughout the next several months, he nevertheless managed to ride the wave of popular support to a victory in the first round of the general elections on March 27, 2000, when he became Russia s second president and its youngest leader since 1922, when Josef Stalin became general secretary of the Communist Party.
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