The life of Vladimir Putin
This 1961 photo shows a school photo of a young Vladimir Putin. He is seen (front row, third from left, next to teacher) with other pupils of his St. Petersburg school class. AFP PHOTOAFP / Getty Images
This 1969 photo shows a young Vladimir Putin dancing with a girl named Elena while in 9th grade at a secondary school.AFP/AFP / Getty Images
This 1971 photo shows a young Vladimir Putin during a training fight with fellow pupil Vassily Shestakov at a St. Petersburg sports school's judo class.AFP/AFP / Getty Images
Vladimir Putin in an undated photo from the Kremlin archives.Kremlin
Vladimir Putin as a young man in this undated photo from the Kremlin archives.Kremlin
DO NOT USE WITHOUT PERMISSION -- PHOTO OBTAINED IN 2000 FOR STORY PUBLISHED MARCH 25, 2000 -- NOT CLEARED FOR FURTHER PUBLICATION -- Vladimir Putin, bottom right, with his KGB colleagues in Leningrad, c. 1970s. The man who's face is blocked out is St. Petersburg's Federal Security Bureau director. Credit: Moscoop. [Update: As of 2018 Moscoop no longer exists, so no idea who owns rights to this photo now]MOSCOOP LIMITED
Vladimir Putin in an undated photo from the Kremlin archives.Kremlin
Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila Shkrebneva on their wedding day in 1983.Kremlin
Russian President, Vladimir Putin asks his wife, Ludmyla, to come closer during a photo shoot at the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, Oct. 4, 2000.Saurabh Das/AP
Time magazine named Vladimir Putin its Person of the Year for 2007, saying he had returned his country from chaos to 'the table of world power' though at a cost to democratic principles.Reuters/Reuters
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, assisted by Russian scientist scientist Vyacheslav Razhanov, fixes a GPS-Argos satellite transmitter onto a tiger during his visit to the Ussuriysky forest reserve of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Far East on August 31, 2008.AFP
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sits during a 2009 fishing trip in southern Siberia's Tuva region.RIA NOVOSTI
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin swims the butterfly during his 2009 vacation outside the town of Kyzyl, Russia.ALEXEY DRUZHININ
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, seen with former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, left, in 2002, would like to see the Kontinental Hockey League expand into central and western Europe.SERGEI CHIRIKOV/Getty Images
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin aims at a whale with an arbalest to take a piece of its skin for analysis on the Olga Bay, some 240 kilometres north-east of Nakhodka on August 25, 2010.ALEXEY DRUZHININ
The widely publicized incident in 2011 in which Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pulled up ancient Greek jug fragments from the seabed on a diving expedition was staged, his chief spokesman said.The Associated Press
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rides with motorcycle enthusiasts during his visit to a bike festival in the southern Russian city of Novorossiisk August 29, 2011.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin greets Canadian former professional hockey player Phil Esposito at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on Feb. 24, 2012.Misha Japaridze/REUTERS