Vladimir Putin may have accidentally exposed a top contender for his seat as he scrambles to contain the expansion of Ukraine's incursion into Russia. The Russian leader this week named former ...

SOCHI, October 24. /TASS/. The end of Vladimir Putin’s presidential term is still far down the road, so no one in the Kremlin is mulling over his possible successor, Russian Presidential ...

Vladimir Putin has been tipped to be already testing his close circle to find a successor and secure his "tsarist-like legacy". Following the landslide victory at the controversial presidential ...

The appetite for trying it again is nil. The lack of a successor is harder to explain. Putin is 71 years old. He probably expected to be handing over the reins of power at this point in his career.

But when Vladimir Putin was named as successor to the drunken president Boris Yeltsin a quarter of a century ago, on New Year’s Eve in 1999, he was a virtual unknown outside Russian politics.

During his brief turn in office, Kiriyenko made the fateful decision to appoint Putin as the head of the FSB, the successor institution to the KGB. Kiriyenko is working hard "to make himself an ...

But with the enigmatic Vladimir Putin orchestrating Russia’s transfer of power, the riddle over how his successor will run things – especially with Putin as prime minister – remains very ...

MOSCOW, June 7. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that the country’s people will decide on his successor, as he himself said during his annual televised question and answer ...