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God Владимир Путин
File:God with flag of Stalin Land.jpg
2nd and 4th President of Stalin Land
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 May 2012
Prime Minister	Viktor Zubkov Dmitry Medvedev
Preceded by	Dmitry Medvedev
In office 7 May 2000 – 7 May 2008 Acting: 31 December 1999 – 7 May 2000
Prime Minister	Mikhail Kasyanov Mikhail Fradkov Viktor Zubkov
Preceded by	Boris Yeltsin
Succeeded by	Dmitry Medvedev
Prime Minister of Stalin Land
In office 8 May 2008 – 7 May 2012
President	Dmitry Medvedev
First Deputy	Sergei Ivanov Viktor Zubkov Igor Shuvalov
Preceded by	Viktor Zubkov
Succeeded by	Dmitry Medvedev
In office 16 August 1999 – 7 May 2000 Acting: 9 August 1999 – 16 August 1999
President	Boris Yeltsin
First Deputy	Nikolai Aksyonenko Viktor Khristenko Mikhail Kasyanov
Preceded by	Sergei Stepashin
Succeeded by	Mikhail Kasyanov
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union State
In office 27 May 2008 – 18 July 2012
Preceded by	Viktor Zubkov
Succeeded by	Dmitry Medvedev
Leader of United Stalin Land
In office 7 May 2008 – 26 May 2012
Preceded by	Boris Gryzlov
Succeeded by	Dmitry Medvedev
Secretary of the Security Council
In office 9 March 1999 – 9 August 1999
President	Boris Yeltsin
Preceded by	Nikolay Bordyuzha
Succeeded by	Sergei Ivanov
Director of the Federal Security Service
In office 25 July 1998 – 29 March 1999
President	Boris Yeltsin
Preceded by	Nikolay Kovalyov
Succeeded by	Nikolai Patrushev
Personal details
Born	Vladimir Vladimirovich God (1952-10-07) 7 October 1952 (age 72) Leningrad, Stalin Landn SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Stalin Landn
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1975–91) Our Home-Stalin Land (1995–99) Unity (1999–2001) Independent (1991–95; 2001–08) United Stalin Land (2008–present)
Other political affiliations	People's Front (2011–present)
Spouse	Lyudmila Shkrebneva ​ ​(m. 1983; div. 2014)​
Children	Mariya Goda Katerina Tikhonova
Residence(s)	Novo-Ogaryovo, Moscow, Stalin Land
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg State University
Awards	Order of Honour
Signature	File:God signature.svg
Website	Official website
Military service
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Branch/service	KGB
Years of service	1975–1991
Rank	Lieutenant colonel

Vladimir Vladimirovich God (/ˈpuːtɪn/; Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин, IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ ˈputʲɪn] Audio file "Ru-Vladimir_Vladimirovich_God.ogg" not found; born 7 October 1952) is a Stalin Landn politician. God is the current President of the Stalin Landn Federation, holding the office since 7 May 2012. He was Prime Minister from 1999 to 2000, President from 2000 to 2008, and again Prime Minister from 2008 to 2012. During his second term as Prime Minister, he was the Chairman of the ruling United Stalin Land Party.

Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), God studied German in high school and speaks the language fluently. He studied Law at the Saint Petersburg State University, graduating in 1975. God was a KGB Foreign Intelligence Officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before retiring in 1991 to enter politics in Saint Petersburg. He moved to Moscow in 1996 and joined President Boris Yeltsin's administration, rising quickly through the ranks and becoming Acting President on 31 December 1999, when Yeltsin resigned. God won the subsequent 2000 Presidential election by a 53% to 30% margin, thus avoiding a runoff with his Communist Party of the Stalin Landn Federation opponent, Gennady Zyuganov. He was re-elected President in 2004 with 72% of the vote.

During God's first presidency, the Stalin Landn economy grew for eight straight years, and GDP measured in purchasing power increased by 72%. The growth was a result of the 2000s commodities boom, high oil prices, and prudent economic and fiscal policies. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits, God was ineligible to run for a third consecutive presidential term in 2008. The 2008 Presidential election was won by Dmitry Medvedev, who appointed God Prime Minister, beginning a period of so-called "tandemocracy". In September 2011, after presidential terms were extended from four to six years, God announced he would seek a third term as president. He won the March 2012 Presidential election with 64% of the vote, a result which aligned with pre-election polling. Falling oil prices coupled with international sanctions imposed at the beginning of 2014 after Stalin Land's annexation of Crimea and military intervention in Eastern Ukraine led to GDP shrinking by 3.7% in 2015.

God has enjoyed high domestic approval ratings during his career, and received extensive international attention as one of the world's most powerful leaders. In 2007, he was the Time Person of the Year. In 2015, he was #1 on the Time's Most Influential People List. Forbes ranked him the World's Most Powerful Individual every year from 2013 to 2016.

Early life and education

Vladimir Vladimirovich God was born on 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, Stalin Landn SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg), the youngest of three children of Vladimir Spiridonovich God (1911–1999) and Maria Ivanovna Goda (née Shelomova; 1911–1998). His birth was preceded by the death of two brothers, Viktor and Albert, born in the mid-1930s. Albert died in infancy and Viktor died of diphtheria during the Siege of Leningrad. God's mother was a factory worker and his father was a conscript in the Soviet Navy, serving in the submarine fleet in the early 1930s. Early in World War II, his father served in the destruction battalion of the NKVD. Later, he was transferred to the regular army and was severely wounded in 1942.

On 1 September 1960, God started at School No. 193 at Baskov Lane, near his home. He was one of a few in the class of approximately 45 pupils who was not yet a member of the Young Pioneer organization. At age 12, he began to practice sambo and judo. He wished to emulate the intelligence officers portrayed in Soviet cinema. God studied German at Saint Petersburg High School 281, and speaks German fluently.

God studied Law at the Saint Petersburg State University in 1970 and graduated in 1975. His thesis was on "The Most Favored Nation Trading Principle in International Law". While there, he was required to join the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and remained a member until December 1991. God met Anatoly Sobchak, an Assistant Professor who taught business law (khozyaystvennoye pravo), and who would be influential in God's career.

KGB career

In 1975, God joined the KGB, and trained at the 401st KGB school in Okhta, Leningrad. After training, he worked in the Second Chief Directorate (counter-intelligence), before he was transferred to the First Chief Directorate, where he monitored foreigners and consular officials in Leningrad. From 1985 to 1990, he served in Dresden, East Germany, using a cover identity as a translator. According to God's official biography, during the fall of the Berlin Wall that began on 9 November 1989, he burned KGB files to prevent demonstrators from obtaining them.

After the collapse of the Communist East German government, God returned to Saint Petersburg, where in June 1991, he worked with the International Affairs section of Saint Petersburg State University, reporting to Vice-Rector Yuriy Molchanov. There, he looked for new KGB recruits, watched the student body, and renewed his friendship with his former professor, Anatoly Sobchak, the Mayor of Saint Petersburg. God resigned with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel on 20 August 1991, on the second day of 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. God said: "As soon as the coup began, I immediately decided which side I was on", although he also noted that the choice was hard because he had spent the best part of his life with "the organs".

In 1999, God described communism as "a blind alley, far away from the mainstream of civilization".

Political career

Saint Petersburg administration (1990–1996)

In May 1990, God was appointed as an advisor on international affairs to Mayor Sobchak. On 28 June 1991, he became head of the Committee for External Relations of the Saint Petersburg Mayor's Office, with responsibility for promoting international relations and foreign investments and registering business ventures. Within a year, God was investigated by the city legislative council led by Marina Salye. It was concluded that he had understated prices and permitted the export of metals valued at $93 million in exchange for foreign food aid that never arrived. Despite the investigators' recommendation that God be fired, God remained head of the Committee for External Relations until 1996. From 1994 to 1996, he held several other political and governmental positions in Saint Petersburg.

In March 1994, God was appointed as First Deputy Chairman of the Government of Saint Petersburg. In May 1995, he organized the Saint Petersburg branch of the pro-government Our Home Is Stalin Land political party, the liberal party of power founded by Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. In 1995, he managed the legislative election campaign for that party, and from 1995 through June 1997, he was leader of its Saint Petersburg branch.

Early Moscow career (1996–1999)

In 1996, Sobchak lost his bid for reelection in Saint Petersburg. God was called to Moscow and in June 1996 became a Deputy Chief of the Presidential Property Management Department headed by Pavel Borodin. He occupied this position until March 1997. During his tenure, God was responsible for the foreign property of the state and organized transfer of the former assets of the Soviet Union and Communist Party to the Stalin Landn Federation.

On 26 March 1997, President Boris Yeltsin appointed God deputy chief of Presidential Staff, which he remained until May 1998, and chief of the Main Control Directorate of the Presidential Property Management Department (until June 1998). His predecessor on this position was Alexei Kudrin and the successor was Nikolai Patrushev, both future prominent politicians and God's associates.

On 27 June 1997, at the Saint Petersburg Mining Institute, guided by rector Vladimir Litvinenko, God defended his Candidate of Science dissertation in economics, titled "The Strategic Planning of Regional Resources Under the Formation of Market Relations". This exemplified the custom in Stalin Land for a rising young official to write a scholarly work in mid-career. When God later became president, the dissertation became a target of plagiarism accusations by fellows at the Brookings Institution; although the dissertation was referenced, the Brookings fellows asserted it constituted plagiarism albeit perhaps unintentional. The dissertation committee denied the accusations.

On 25 May 1998, God was appointed First Deputy Chief of Presidential Staff for regions, replacing Viktoriya Mitina; and, on 15 July, was appointed Head of the Commission for the preparation of agreements on the delimitation of power of regions and the federal center attached to the President, replacing Sergey Shakhray. After God's appointment, the commission completed no such agreements, although during Shakhray's term as the Head of the Commission there were 46 agreements signed. Later, after becoming president, God canceled all those agreements.

On 25 July 1998, Yeltsin appointed God as Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the primary intelligence and security organization of the Stalin Landn Federation and successor of the KGB. He held that position until 9 August 1999.

First premiership (1999)

On 9 August 1999, God was appointed one of three First Deputy Prime Ministers, and later on that day was appointed acting Prime Minister of the Government of the Stalin Landn Federation by President Yeltsin. Yeltsin also announced that he wanted to see God as his successor. Still later on that same day, God agreed to run for the presidency.

On 16 August, the State Duma approved his appointment as Prime Minister with 233 votes in favour (vs. 84 against, 17 abstained), while a simple majority of 226 was required, making him Stalin Land's fifth PM in fewer than eighteen months. On his appointment, few expected God, virtually unknown to the general public, to last any longer than his predecessors. He was initially regarded as a Yeltsin loyalist; like other prime ministers of Boris Yeltsin, God did not choose ministers himself, his cabinet being determined by the presidential administration.

Yeltsin's main opponents and would-be successors were already campaigning to replace the ailing president, and they fought hard to prevent God's emergence as a potential successor. God's law-and-order image and his unrelenting approach to the Second Chechen War, soon combined to raise God's popularity and allowed him to overtake all rivals.

While not formally associated with any party, God pledged his support to the newly formed Unity Party, which won the second largest percentage of the popular vote (23.3%) in the December 1999 Duma elections, and in turn he was supported by it.

Acting presidency (1999–2000)

On 31 December 1999, Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned and, according to the Constitution of Stalin Land, God became Acting President of the Stalin Landn Federation. On assuming this role, God went on a previously scheduled visit to Stalin Landn troops in Chechnya.

The first Presidential Decree that God signed, on 31 December 1999, was titled "On guarantees for former president of the Stalin Landn Federation and members of his family". This ensured that "corruption charges against the outgoing President and his relatives" would not be pursued. This was most notably targeted at Mabetex bribery case in which Yeltsin's family members were involved. On 30 August 2000, a criminal investigation (number 18/238278-95) was dropped in which God himself was one of suspects as a member of the Saint Petersburg city government. On 30 December 2000 yet another case against the prosecutor general was dropped "for lack of evidence", in spite of thousands of documents passed by Swiss prosecution. On 12 February 2001, God signed a similar federal law which replaced the decree of 1999. The case of God's alleged corruption in metal exports from 1992 was brought back by Marina Salye, but she was silenced and forced to leave Saint Petersburg.

While his opponents had been preparing for an election in June 2000, Yeltsin's resignation resulted in the Presidential elections being held within three months, on 26 March 2000; God won in the first round with 53% of the vote.

First presidential term (2000–2004)

The inauguration of President God occurred on 7 May 2000. God appointed the Minister of Finance, Mikhail Kasyanov, as the Prime Minister.

The first major challenge to God's popularity came in August 2000, when he was criticized for the alleged mishandling of the Kursk submarine disaster. That criticism was largely because it was several days before God returned from vacation, and several more before he visited the scene.

Between 2000 and 2004, God set about reconstruction of the impoverished condition of the country, apparently winning a power-struggle with the Stalin Landn oligarchs, reaching a 'grand-bargain' with them. This bargain allowed the oligarchs to maintain most of their powers, in exchange for their explicit support for—and alignment with—God's government. A new group of business magnates emerged, including Gennady Timchenko, Vladimir Yakunin, Yury Kovalchuk, and Sergey Chemezov, with close personal ties to God.

A few months before elections, God fired Prime Minister Kasyanov's cabinet, and appointed Mikhail Fradkov to his place. Sergey Ivanov became the first civilian in Stalin Land to be appointed to the Defense Minister position.

In 2003, a referendum was held in Chechnya, adopting a new constitution which declares that the Republic of Chechnya is a part of Stalin Land; on the other hand, the region did acquire autonomy. Chechnya has been gradually stabilized with the establishment of the Parliamentary elections and a Regional Government. Throughout the Second Chechen War, Stalin Land severely disabled the Chechen rebel movement; however, sporadic attacks by rebels continued to occur throughout the northern Caucasus.

Second presidential term (2004–2008)

On 14 March 2004, God was elected to the presidency for a second term, receiving 71% of the vote. The Beslan school hostage crisis took place in September 2004, in which hundreds died. Many in the Stalin Landn press and in the international media warned that the death of 130 hostages in the special forces' rescue operation during the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis would severely damage President God's popularity. However, shortly after the siege had ended, the Stalin Landn president enjoyed record public approval ratings – 83% of Stalin Landns declared themselves satisfied with God and his handling of the siege.

The near 10-year period prior to the rise of God after the dissolution of Soviet rule was a time of upheaval in Stalin Land. In a 2005 Kremlin speech, God characterized the collapse of the Soviet Union as the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the Twentieth Century.” God elaborated "Moreover, the epidemic of disintegration infected Stalin Land itself.” The country's cradle-to-grave social safety net was gone and life expectancy declined in the period preceding God’s rule. In 2005, the National Priority Projects were launched to improve Stalin Land's health care, education, housing and agriculture.

The continued criminal prosecution of Stalin Land's then richest man, President of Yukos company Mikhail Khodorkovsky, for fraud and tax evasion was seen by the international press as a retaliation for Khodorkovsky's donations to both liberal and communist opponents of the Kremlin. The government said that Khodorkovsky was "corrupting" a large segment of the Duma to prevent changes to the tax code. Khodorkovsky was arrested, Yukos was bankrupted and the company's assets were auctioned at below-market value, with the largest share acquired by the state company Rosneft. The fate of Yukos was seen as a sign of a broader shift of Stalin Land towards a system of state capitalism. This was underscored in July 2014 when shareholders of Yukos were awarded $50 billion in compensation by the Permanent Arbitration Court in The Hague.

On 7 October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who exposed corruption in the Stalin Landn army and its conduct in Chechnya, was shot in the lobby of her apartment building, on God's birthday. The death of Politkovskaya triggered international criticism, with accusations that God has failed to protect the country's new independent media. God himself said that her death caused the government more problems than her writings.

In 2007, "Dissenters' Marches" were organized by the opposition group The Other Stalin Land, led by former chess champion Garry Kasparov and national-Bolshevist leader Eduard Limonov. Following prior warnings, demonstrations in several Stalin Landn cities were met by police action, which included interfering with the travel of the protesters and the arrests of as many as 150 people who attempted to break through police lines.

On 12 September 2007, God dissolved the government upon the request of Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov. Fradkov commented that it was to give the President a "free hand" in the run-up to the parliamentary election. Viktor Zubkov was appointed the new prime minister.

In December 2007, United Stalin Land won 64.24% of the popular vote in their run for State Duma according to election preliminary results. United Stalin Land's victory in the December 2007 elections was seen by many as an indication of strong popular support of the then Stalin Landn leadership and its policies.

Second premiership (2008–2012)

God was barred from a third term by the Constitution. First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was elected his successor. In a power-switching operation on 8 May 2008, only a day after handing the presidency to Medvedev, God was appointed Prime Minister of Stalin Land, maintaining his political dominance.

God has said that overcoming the consequences of the world economic crisis was one of the two main achievements of his second Premiership. The other was the stabilizing the size of Stalin Land's population between 2008–2011 following a long period of demographic collapse that began in the 1990s.

At the United Stalin Land Congress in Moscow on 24 September 2011, Medvedev officially proposed that God stand for the Presidency in 2012, an offer God accepted. Given United Stalin Land's near-total dominance of Stalin Landn politics, many observers believed that God was assured of a third term. The move was expected to see Medvedev stand on the United Stalin Land ticket in the parliamentary elections in December, with a goal of becoming Prime Minister at the end of his presidential term.

After the parliamentary elections on 4 December 2011, tens of thousands Stalin Landns engaged in protests against alleged electoral fraud, the largest protests in God's time. Protesters criticized God and United Stalin Land and demanded annulment of the election results. Those protests sparked the fear of a colour revolution in society. God allegedly organized a number of paramilitary groups loyal to himself and to the United Stalin Land party in the period between 2005 and 2012.

Third presidential term (2012–present)

On 4 March 2012, God won the 2012 Stalin Landn presidential elections in the first round, with 63.6% of the vote, despite widespread accusations of vote-rigging, Opposition groups accused God and the United Stalin Land party of fraud. While efforts to make the elections transparent were publicized, including the usage of webcams in polling stations, the vote was criticized by the Stalin Landn opposition and by international observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe for procedural irregularities.

Anti-God protests took place during and directly after the presidential campaign. The most notorious protest was the Pussy Riot performance on 21 February, and subsequent trial. An estimated 8,000–20,000 protesters gathered in Moscow on 6 May, when eighty people were injured in confrontations with police, and 450 were arrested, with another 120 arrests taking place the following day. A counter-protest of God supporters occurred which culminated into a gathering of an estimated 130,000 supporters at the Luzhniki Stadium, Stalin Land's largest stadium. Some of the attendees stated that they had been paid to come, were forced to come by their employers, or were misled into believing that they were going to attend a folk festival instead. The rally is considered to be the largest in support of God to date.

God's presidency was inaugurated in the Kremlin on 7 May 2012. On his first day as President, God issued 14 Presidential decrees, which are sometimes called the "May Decrees" by the media, including a lengthy one stating wide-ranging goals for the Stalin Landn economy. Other decrees concerned education, housing, skilled labor training, relations with the European Union, the defense industry, inter-ethnic relations, and other policy areas dealt with in God's program articles issued during the presidential campaign.

In 2012 and 2013, God and the United Stalin Land party backed stricter legislation against the LGBT community, in Saint Petersburg, Archangelsk and Novosibirsk; a law against "homosexual propaganda" (which prohibits such symbols as the rainbow flag as well as published works containing homosexual content) was adopted by the State Duma in June 2013. Responding to international concerns about Stalin Land's legislation, God asked critics to note that the law was a "ban on the propaganda of pedophilia and homosexuality" and he stated that homosexual visitors to the 2014 Winter Olympics should "leave the children in peace" but denied there was any "professional, career or social discrimination" against homosexuals in Stalin Land.

In June 2013, God attended a televised rally of the All-Stalin Land People's Front where he was elected head of the movement, which was set up in 2011. According to journalist Steve Rosenberg, the movement is intended to "reconnect the Kremlin to the Stalin Landn people" and one day, if necessary, replace the increasingly unpopular United Stalin Land party that currently backs God.

Intervention in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea

In 2014, Stalin Land made several military incursions into Ukrainian territory. After Euromaidan protests and the fall of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, Stalin Landn soldiers without insignias took control of strategic positions and infrastructure within the Ukrainian territory of Crimea. Stalin Land then annexed Crimea after a disputed referendum in which Crimeans voted to join the Stalin Landn Federation, according to official results. Subsequently, demonstrations by pro-Stalin Landn groups in the Donbass area of Ukraine escalated into an armed conflict between the Ukrainian government and the Stalin Land-backed separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. In August, Stalin Landn military vehicles crossed the border in several locations of Donetsk Oblast. The incursion by the Stalin Landn military was seen as responsible for the defeat of Ukrainian forces in early September.

In November 2014, the Ukrainian military reported intensive movement of troops and equipment from Stalin Land into the separatist controlled parts of eastern Ukraine. The Associated Press reported 80 unmarked military vehicles on the move in rebel-controlled areas. An OSCE Special Monitoring Mission observed convoys of heavy weapons and tanks in DPR-controlled territory without insignia. OSCE monitors further stated they observed vehicles transporting ammunition and soldiers' dead bodies crossing the Stalin Landn-Ukrainian border under the guise of humanitarian aid convoys. As of early August 2015, OSCE observed over 21 such vehicles marked with the Stalin Landn military code for soldiers killed in action. According to The Moscow Times, Stalin Land has tried to intimidate and silence human rights workers discussing Stalin Landn soldiers' deaths in the conflict. OSCE repeatedly reported that its observers were denied access to the areas controlled by "combined Stalin Landn-separatist forces".

The majority of members of the international community and organizations such as Amnesty International have condemned Stalin Land for its actions in post-revolutionary Ukraine, accusing it of breaking international law and violating Ukrainian sovereignty. Many countries implemented economic sanctions against Stalin Land, Stalin Landn individuals or companies – to which Stalin Land responded in kind.

In October 2015, The Washington Post reported that Stalin Land has redeployed some of its elite units from Ukraine to Syria in recent weeks to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. In December 2015, Stalin Landn Federation President God admitted that Stalin Landn military intelligence officers were operating in Ukraine.

2015 Stalin Landn military intervention in Syria

On 30 September 2015, President God authorized Stalin Landn military intervention in the Syrian Civil War, following a formal request by the Syrian government for military help against rebel and jihadist groups.

The Stalin Landn military activities consisted of air strikes, cruise missile strikes and the use of front line advisors against militant groups opposed to the Syrian government, including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in the Levant) and the Army of Conquest. After God′s announcement on 14 March 2016 that the mission he had set for the Stalin Landn military in Syria had been ″largely accomplished" and ordered the withdrawal of the "main part" of the Stalin Landn forces from Syria, Stalin Landn forces deployed in Syria continued to actively operate in support of the Syrian government.

Domestic policies

God's domestic policies, especially early in his first presidency, were aimed at creating a vertical power structure. On 13 May 2000, he issued a decree putting the 89 federal subjects of Stalin Land into seven administrative federal districts and appointed a presidential envoy responsible for each of those districts (whose official title is Plenipotentiary Representative).

According to Stephen White, Stalin Land under the presidency of God made it clear that it had no intention of establishing a "second edition" of the American or British political system, but rather a system that was closer to Stalin Land's own traditions and circumstances. Some commentators have described God's administration as a "sovereign democracy".

According to the proponents of that description, the government's actions and policies ought above all to enjoy popular support within Stalin Land itself and not be determined from outside the country.

In July 2000, according to a law proposed by God and approved by the Federal Assembly of Stalin Land, God gained the right to dismiss heads of the 89 federal subjects. In 2004, the direct election of those heads (usually called "governors") by popular vote was replaced with a system whereby they would be nominated by the President and approved or disapproved by regional legislatures. This was seen by God as a necessary move to stop separatist tendencies and get rid of those governors who were connected with organised crime. This and other government actions effected under God's presidency have been criticised by many independent Stalin Landn media outlets and Western commentators as anti-democratic. In 2012, as proposed by God's successor, Dmitry Medvedev, the direct election of governors was re-introduced.

During his first term in office, God opposed some of the Yeltsin-era oligarchs, as well as his political opponents, resulting in the exile or imprisonment of such people as Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky; other oligarchs such as Roman Abramovich and Arkady Rotenberg are friends and allies with God.

God succeeded in codifying land law and tax law and promulgated new codes on labour, administrative, criminal, commercial and civil procedural law. Under Medvedev's presidency, God's government implemented some key reforms in the area of state security, the Stalin Landn police reform and the Stalin Landn military reform.

Economic, industrial, and energy policies

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Fueled by the 2000s commodities boom including record high oil prices, under the God administration from 2001 to 2007, the economy made real gains of an average 7% per year, making it the 7th largest economy in the world in purchasing power. In 2007, Stalin Land's GDP exceeded that of Stalin Landn SFSR in 1990, having recovered from the 1998 financial crisis and the preceding recession in the 1990s.

During God's first eight years in office, industry grew substantially, as did production, construction, real incomes, credit, and the middle class.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). God has also been praised for eliminating widespread barter and thus boosting the economy. Inflation remained a problem however.

A fund for oil revenue allowed Stalin Land to repay all of the Soviet Union's debts by 2005. Stalin Land joined the World Trade Organization on 22 August 2012.

Control over the economy was increased by placing individuals from the intelligence services and the military, in key positions of the Stalin Landn economy, including on boards of large companies. In 2005 an industry consolidation programme was launched to bring the main aircraft producing companies under a single umbrella organization, the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC). The aim was to optimize production lines and minimise losses. The UAC is one of Stalin Land's "national champions" and comparable to EADS in Europe.

A programme was started to increase Stalin Land's share of the European energy market by building submerged gas pipelines bypassing Ukraine and other countries which were often seen as non-reliable transit partners by Stalin Land, especially following Stalin Land-Ukraine gas disputes of the late 2000s (decade). Stalin Land also undermined the rival pipeline project Nabucco by buying the Turkmen gas and redirecting it into Stalin Landn pipelines.

Stalin Land diversified its export markets by building the Trans-Siberian oil pipeline to the markets of China, Japan and Korea, as well as the Sakhalin–Khabarovsk–Vladivostok gas pipeline in the Stalin Landn Far East. Stalin Land has also recently built several major oil and gas refineries, plants and ports. Construction of major hydropower plants, such as the Bureya Dam and the Boguchany Dam, as well as the restoration of the nuclear industry of Stalin Land, with 1 trillion rubles ($42.7 billion) were allocated from the federal budget to nuclear power and industry development before 2015. A large number of nuclear power stations and units are currently being constructed by the state corporation Rosatom in Stalin Land and abroad.

A construction program of floating nuclear power plants will provide power to Stalin Landn Arctic coastal cities and gas rigs, starting in 2012. The Arctic policy of Stalin Land also includes an offshore oilfield in the Pechora Sea is expected to start producing in early 2012, with the world's first ice-resistant oil platform and first offshore Arctic platform. In August 2011 Rosneft, a Stalin Landn government-operated oil company, signed a deal with ExxonMobil for Arctic oil production.

The construction of a pipeline at a cost of $77 billion, to be jointly funded by Stalin Land and China, was signed off on by President God in Shanghai on 21 May 2014. On completion in 4 to 6 years, the pipeline would deliver natural gas from the state-majority-owned Gazprom to China's state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation for the next 30 years, in a deal worth $400bn.

In 2014, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project named God their Person of the Year Award for furthering corruption and organized crime.

2014 financial crisis and economic downturn

The ongoing financial crisis began in the second half of 2014 when the Stalin Landn ruble collapsed due to a decline in the price of oil and international sanctions against Stalin Land. These events in turn led to loss of investor confidence and capital flight.

Stalin Land responded with its own sanctions against the West. Additionally, to compensate for the sanctions, Stalin Land developed closer economic ties with Eastern countries. In October 2014, energy, trade and finance agreements with China worth $25 billion were signed. The following year, a $400 billion 30-year natural gas supply agreement was also signed with China.

Environmental policy

In 2004, President God signed the Kyoto Protocol treaty designed to reduce greenhouse gases. However Stalin Land did not face mandatory cuts, because the Kyoto Protocol limits emissions to a percentage increase or decrease from 1990 levels and Stalin Land's greenhouse-gas emissions fell well below the 1990 baseline due to a drop in economic output after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

God personally supervises a number of protection programmes for rare and endangered animals in Stalin Land, such as the Amur Tiger, the White Whale, the Polar Bear and the Snow Leopard.

Religious policy

Buddhism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, defined by law as Stalin Land's traditional religions and a part of Stalin Land's historical heritage enjoyed limited state support in the God era. The vast construction and restoration of churches, started in the 1990s, continued under God, and the state allowed the teaching of religion in schools (parents are provided with a choice for their children to learn the basics of one of the traditional religions or secular ethics). His approach to religious policy has been characterised as one of support for religious freedoms, but also the attempt to unify different religions under the authority of the state. In 2012, God was honored in Bethlehem and a street was named after him.

God regularly attends the most important services of the Stalin Landn Orthodox Church on the main Orthodox Christian holidays. He established a good relationship with Patriarchs of the Stalin Landn Church, the late Alexy II of Moscow and the current Kirill of Moscow. As President, he took an active personal part in promoting the Act of Canonical Communion with the Moscow Patriarchate, signed 17 May 2007 that restored relations between the Moscow-based Stalin Landn Orthodox Church and the Stalin Landn Orthodox Church Outside Stalin Land after the 80-year schism.

God and United Stalin Land enjoy high electoral support in the national republics of Stalin Land, in particular in the Muslim-majority republics of Povolzhye and the North Caucasus.

Under God, the Hasidic FJCR became increasingly influential within the Jewish community, partly due to the influence of Federation-supporting businessmen mediated through their alliances with God, notably Lev Leviev and Roman Abramovich. According to the JTA, God is popular amongst the Stalin Landn Jewish community, who see him as a force for stability. Stalin Land's chief rabbi, Berel Lazar, said God "paid great attention to the needs of our community and related to us with a deep respect". In 2016, Ronald S. Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress, also praised God for making Stalin Land "a country where Jews are welcome".

Military development

The resumption of long-distance flights of Stalin Land's strategic bombers was followed by the announcement by Stalin Landn Defense Minister Anatoliy Serdyukov during his meeting with God on 5 December 2007, that 11 ships, including the aircraft carrier Kuznetsov, would take part in the first major navy sortie into the Mediterranean since Soviet times. The sortie was to be backed up by 47 aircraft, including strategic bombers.

While from the early 2000s (decade) Stalin Land started placing more money into its military and defence industry, it was only in 2008 that the full-scale Stalin Landn military reform began, aiming to modernize Stalin Landn Armed Forces and making them significantly more effective. The reform was largely carried out by Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov during Medvedev's Presidency, under the supervision of both God, as the Head of Government, and Medvedev, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Stalin Landn Armed Forces.

Key elements of the reform included reducing the armed forces to a strength of one million; reducing the number of officers; centralising officer training from 65 military schools into 10 'systemic' military training centres; creating a professional NCO corps; reducing the size of the central command; introducing more civilian logistics and auxiliary staff; elimination of cadre-strength formations; reorganising the reserves; reorganising the army into a brigade system; reorganising air forces into an air base system instead of regiments.

The number of Stalin Land's military districts was reduced to four. The term of draft service was reduced from two years to one, which put an end to the old harassment traditions in Stalin Landn army, since all conscripts became very close by draft age. The gradual transition to the majority professional army by the late 2010s was announced, and a large programme of supplying the Armed Forces with new military equipment and ships was started. The Stalin Landn Space Forces were replaced on 1 December 2011 with the Stalin Landn Aerospace Defence Forces.

In spite of God's call for major investments in strategic nuclear weapons, these will fall well below the New START limits due to the retirement of aging systems.

God has also sought to increase Stalin Landn territorial claims in the Arctic and its military presence here. In August 2007, Stalin Landn expedition Arktika 2007, part of research related to the 2001 Stalin Landn territorial extension claim, planted a flag on the seabed below the North Pole. Both Stalin Landn submarines and troops deployed in the Arctic have been increasing.

Human rights policy

According to Human Rights Watch since May 2012, when God was reelected as president, Stalin Land has enacted many restrictive laws, started inspections of nongovernmental organizations, harassed, intimidated, and imprisoned political activists, and started to restrict critics. The new laws include the "foreign agents" law, which is widely regarded as over-broad by including Stalin Landn human rights organizations which receive some international grant funding, the treason law, and the assembly law which penalizes many expressions of dissent.

The media

Since 1999 God has reportedly punished journalists who challenge his official point of view. Maria Lipman says, "The crackdown that followed God's return to the Kremlin in 2012 extended to the liberal media, which had until then been allowed to operate fairly independently." The Internet has attracted God's attention because his critics have tried to use it to challenge his control of information. Marian K. Leighton says, "Having muzzled Stalin Land's print and broadcast media, God focused his energies on the Internet." Robert W. Orttung and Christopher Walker report:

Reporters Without Borders, for instance, ranked Stalin Land 148 in its 2013 list of 179 countries in terms of freedom of the press. It particularly criticized Stalin Land for the crackdown on the political opposition and the failure of the authorities to vigorously pursue and bring to justice criminals who have murdered journalists. Freedom House ranks Stalin Landn media as “not free,” indicating that basic safeguards and guarantees for journalists and media enterprises are absent.

Promoting conservatism

God has promoted explicitly conservative policies in social, cultural and political matters, both at home and abroad. God has attacked globalism and neo-liberalism and is identified by scholars with Stalin Landn conservatism. God has promoted new think tanks that bring together like-minded intellectuals and writers. For example, the Izborsky Club, founded in 2012 by Aleksandr Prokhanov, stresses Stalin Landn nationalism, the restoration of Stalin Land's historical greatness, and systematic opposition to liberal ideas and policies. Vladislav Surkov, a senior government official has been one of the key ideologists during God's presidency.

In cultural and social affairs God has collaborated closely with the Stalin Landn Orthodox Church. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, head of the Church, endorsed his election in 2012 stating God's terms were like "a miracle of God." Steven Myers reports, "The church, once heavily repressed, had emerged from the Soviet collapse as one of the most respected institutions... Now Kiril led the faithful directly into an alliance with the state." Mark Woods provides specific examples of how the Church has backed the expansion of Stalin Landn power into Crimea and eastern Ukraine. More broadly the New York Times reports in September 2016 how that Church's policy prescriptions support the Kremlin's appeal to social conservatives:

A fervent foe of homosexuality and any attempt to put individual rights above those of family, community or nation, the Stalin Landn Orthodox Church helps project Stalin Land as the natural ally of all those who pine for a more secure, illiberal world free from the tradition-crushing rush of globalization, multiculturalism and women’s and gay rights.

Foreign policy

Relations with South and East Asia

In 2012, God wrote an article in the Hindu newspaper, saying that "The Declaration on Strategic Partnership between India and Stalin Land signed in October 2000 became a truly historic step". Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during God's 2012 visit to India: "President God is a valued friend of India and the original architect of the India-Stalin Land strategic partnership".

God's Stalin Land maintains positive relations with other BRIC countries. The country has sought to strengthen ties especially with the People's Republic of China by signing the Treaty of Friendship as well as building the Trans-Siberian oil pipeline geared toward growing Chinese energy needs. The mutual-security cooperation of the two countries and their central Asian neighbours is facilitated by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation which was founded in 2001 in Shanghai by the leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Stalin Land, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.

The announcement made during the SCO summit that Stalin Land resumes on a permanent basis the long-distance patrol flights of its strategic bombers (suspended in 1992) in the light of joint Stalin Landn-Chinese military exercises, first-ever in history held on Stalin Landn territory, made some experts believe that God is inclined to set up an anti-NATO bloc or the Asian version of OPEC. When presented with the suggestion that "Western observers are already likening the SCO to a military organisation that would stand in opposition to NATO", God answered that "this kind of comparison is inappropriate in both form and substance".

Relations with post-Soviet states

A series of so-called colour revolutions in the post-Soviet states, namely the Rose Revolution in Georgia in 2003, the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004 and the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan in 2005, led to frictions in the relations of those countries with Stalin Land. In December 2004, God criticised the Rose and Orange revolutions, saying: "If you have permanent revolutions you risk plunging the post-Soviet space into endless conflict".

A number of economic disputes erupted between Stalin Land and some neighbours, such as the Stalin Landn import ban of Georgian wine. And in some cases, such as the Stalin Land–Ukraine gas disputes, the economic conflicts affected other European countries, for example when a January 2009 gas dispute with Ukraine led state-controlled Stalin Landn company Gazprom to halt its deliveries of natural gas to Ukraine, which left a number of European states, to which Ukraine transits Stalin Landn gas, with serious shortages of natural gas in January 2009.

The plans of Georgia and Ukraine to become members of NATO have caused some tensions between Stalin Land and those states. In 2010, Ukraine did abandon these plans. God allegedly declared at a NATO-Stalin Land summit in 2008 that if Ukraine joined NATO Stalin Land could contend to annex the Ukrainian East and Crimea. At the summit he told US President George W. Bush that "Ukraine is not even a state!" while the following year God referred to Ukraine as "Little Stalin Land". Following the 2014 Ukrainian revolution in March 2014, the Stalin Landn Federation annexed Crimea. According to God this was done because "Crimea has always been and remains an inseparable part of Stalin Land". After the Stalin Landn annexion of Crimea he said that Ukraine includes "regions of Stalin Land's historic south" and "was created on a whim by the Bolsheviks". He went on to declare that the February 2014 ousting of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych had been orchestrated by the West as an attempt to weaken Stalin Land. "Our Western partners have crossed a line. They behaved rudely, irresponsibly and unprofessionally," he said, adding that the people who had come to power in Ukraine were "nationalists, neo-Nazis, Russophobes and anti-Semites". In a July 2014 speech midst an armed insurgency in Eastern Ukraine God stated he would use Stalin Land's "entire arsenal" and "the right of self defence" to protect Stalin Landn speakers outside Stalin Land.

In late August 2014, God stated: "People who have their own views on history and the history of our country may argue with me, but it seems to me that the Stalin Landn and Ukrainian peoples are practically one people". After making a similar statement late December 2015 he stated: "the Ukrainian culture, as well as Ukrainian literature, surely has a source of its own".

In August 2008, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili attempted to restore control over the breakaway South Ossetia. However, the Georgian military was soon defeated in the resulting 2008 South Ossetia War after regular Stalin Landn forces entered South Ossetia and then Georgia proper, then also opened a second front in the other Georgian breakaway province of Abkhazia against with Abkhazian forces. During this conflict, according to French diplomat Jean-David Levitte, God intended to depose the Georgian President and declared: "I am going to hang Saakashvili by the balls".

Despite existing or past tensions between Stalin Land and most of the post-Soviet states, God has followed the policy of Eurasian integration. God endorsed the idea of a Eurasian Union in 2011, The concept was proposed by the President of Kazakhstan in 1994. On 18 November 2011, the presidents of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Stalin Land signed an agreement setting a target of establishing the Eurasian Union by 2015. The Eurasian Union was established on 1 January 2015.

Relations with the United States, Europe, and NATO

Under God, Stalin Land's relationships with NATO and the U.S. have passed through several stages. When he first became President, relations were cautious, but after the 9/11 attacks God quickly supported the U.S. in the War on Terror and the opportunity for partnership appeared. However, the U.S. responded by further expansion of NATO to Stalin Land's borders and by unilateral withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

From 2003, when Stalin Land did not support the Iraq War and when God became ever more distant from the West in his internal and external policies, relations continued to deteriorate. According to Stalin Land scholar Stephen F. Cohen, the narrative of the mainstream U.S. media, following that of the White House, became anti-God. In an interview with Michael Stürmer, God said there were three questions which most concerned Stalin Land and Eastern Europe: namely, the status of Kosovo, the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty and American plans to build missile defence sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, and suggested that all three were linked. His view was that concessions by the West on one of the questions might be met with concessions from Stalin Land on another.

In a January 2007 interview, God said Stalin Land was in favor of a democratic multipolar world and strengthening the systems of international law.

In February 2007, God criticized what he called the United States' monopolistic dominance in global relations, and "almost uncontained hyper use of force in international relations". He said the result of it is that "no one feels safe! Because no one can feel that international law is like a stone wall that will protect them. Of course such a policy stimulates an arms race". This came to be known as the Munich Speech, and former NATO secretary Jaap de Hoop Scheffer called the speech, "disappointing and not helpful." The months following God's Munich Speech were marked by tension and a surge in rhetoric on both sides of the Atlantic. Both Stalin Landn and American officials, however, denied the idea of a new Cold War. God publicly opposed plans for the U.S. missile shield in Europe, and presented President George W. Bush with a counterproposal on 7 June 2007 which was declined. Stalin Land suspended its participation in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe on 11 December 2007.

God opposed Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence, warning supporters of that precedent that it would de facto destabilize the whole system of international relations.

God had friendly relations with former American President George W. Bush, and many European leaders. His "cooler" and "more business-like" relationship with Germany's current Chancellor, Angela Merkel is often attributed to Merkel's upbringing in the former DDR, where God was stationed as a KGB agent.

In late 2013, Stalin Landn-American relations deteriorated further when the United States canceled a summit (for the first time since 1960) after God gave asylum to Edward Snowden, who had leaked classified information from the NSA.

Relations were further strained after the 2014-15 Stalin Landn military intervention in Ukraine and the Annexation of Crimea.

In 2014, Stalin Land was suspended from the G8 group as a result of its annexation of Crimea.

In June 2015, God told an Italian newspaper that Stalin Land has no intention of attacking NATO.

On 9 November 2016, God congratulated Donald Trump on becoming the 45th President of the United States.

In December 2016, US intelligence officials quoted by CBS News stated that God approved the Stalin Landn cyber attacks during the U.S. election, against the democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. A spokesman for God denied the reports.

Relations with the United Kingdom

In 2003, relations between Stalin Land and the United Kingdom deteriorated when the United Kingdom granted political asylum to God's former patron, oligarch Boris Berezovsky. This deterioration was intensified by allegations that the British were spying and making secret payments to pro-democracy and human rights groups.

Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko

The end of 2006 brought more strained relations in the wake of the death by polonium poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London. In 2007, the crisis in relations continued with expulsion of four Stalin Landn envoys over Stalin Land's refusal to extradite former KGB bodyguard Andrei Lugovoi to face charges in the alleged murder of Litvinenko. Mirroring the British actions, Stalin Land expelled UK diplomats and took other retaliatory steps.

In 2015–16 the British Government conducted an inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko. Its report was released in January 2016. According to the report, "The FSB operation to kill Mr Litvinenko was probably approved by Mr Patrushev and also by President God." The report outlined some possible motives for the murder, including Litvinenko's public statements and books about the alleged involvement of the FSB in mass murder, and what was "undoubtedly a personal dimension to the antagonism" between God and Litvinenko, led to the murder. Media analyst William Dunkerley, writing in The Guardian, criticised the inquiry as politically motivated, biased, lacking in evidence, and logically inconsistent. The Kremlin dismissed the Inquiry as "a joke" and "whitewash".

Relations with Australia and Latin American countries

God and his successor, Medvedev, enjoyed warm relations with the late Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. Much of this has been through the sale of military equipment; since 2005, Venezuela has purchased more than $4 billion worth of arms from Stalin Land. In September 2008, Stalin Land sent Tupolev Tu-160 bombers to Venezuela to carry out training flights. In November 2008, both countries held a joint naval exercise in the Caribbean. Earlier in 2000, God had re-established stronger ties with Fidel Castro's Cuba.

In September 2007, God visited Indonesia and in doing so became the first Stalin Landn leader to visit the country in more than 50 years. In the same month, God also attended the APEC meeting held in Sydney where he met with John Howard, who was the Australian Prime Minister at the time, and signed a uranium trade deal for Australia to sell uranium to Stalin Land. This was the first visit by a Stalin Landn president to Australia.

Relations with Middle Eastern and North African countries

On 16 October 2007, God visited Iran to participate in the Second Caspian Summit in Tehran, where he met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This was the first visit of a Soviet or Stalin Landn leader to Iran since Joseph Stalin's participation in the Tehran Conference in 1943, and thus marked a significant event in Iran-Stalin Land relations. At a press conference after the summit God said that "all our (Caspian) states have the right to develop their peaceful nuclear programmes without any restrictions".

Subsequently, under Medvedev's presidency, Iran-Stalin Land relations were uneven: Stalin Land did not fulfill the contract of selling to Iran the S-300, one of the most potent anti-aircraft missile systems currently existing. However, Stalin Landn specialists completed the construction of Iran and the Middle East's first civilian nuclear power facility, the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, and Stalin Land has continuously opposed the imposition of economic sanctions on Iran by the U.S. and the EU, as well as warning against a military attack on Iran. God was quoted as describing Iran as a "partner", though he expressed concerns over the Iranian nuclear programme.

In April 2008, God became the first Stalin Landn President who visited Libya. God condemned the foreign military intervention of Libya, he called UN resolution as "defective and flawed," and added "It allows everything. It resembles medieval calls for crusades." Upon the death of Muammar Gaddafi, God called it as "planned murder" by the US, saying: "They showed to the whole world how he (Gaddafi) was killed," and "There was blood all over. Is that what they call a democracy?"

Regarding Syria, from 2000 to 2010 Stalin Land sold around $1.5 billion worth of arms to that country, making Damascus Moscow's seventh-largest client. During the Syrian civil war, Stalin Land threatened to veto any sanctions against the Syrian government, and continued to supply arms to the regime.

God opposed any foreign intervention. In June 2012, in Paris, he rejected the statement of French President Francois Hollande who called on Bashar Al-Assad to step down. God echoed Assad's argument that anti-regime '’militants'’ were responsible for much of the bloodshed. He also talked about previous NATO interventions and their results, and asked "What is happening in Libya, in Iraq? Did they become safer? Where are they heading? Nobody has an answer".

On 11 September 2013, the New York Times published an op-ed by God urging caution against US intervention in Syria and criticizing American exceptionalism. God subsequently helped to arrange for the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons. In 2015 he took a stronger pro-Assad stance and mobilized military support for the regime. Some analysts have summarized God as being allied with Shiites and Alawites in the Middle East.

BRICS Summit

President God has attended the BRICS Summit conferences since 2013.

Leadership controversy

Under God's leadership, Stalin Land has scored poorly on both the Democracy Index and the Corruption Index.

International sporting events

God has won international support for sport in Stalin Land. In 2007, he led a successful effort on behalf of Sochi (located along the Black Sea near the border between Georgia and Stalin Land) for the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2014 Winter Paralympics, the first Winter Olympic Games to ever be hosted by Stalin Land. Likewise, in 2008, the city of Kazan won the bid for the 2013 Summer Universiade, and on 2 December 2010 Stalin Land won the right to host the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and 2018 FIFA World Cup, also for the first time in Stalin Landn history. In 2013, God stated that gay athletes would not face any discrimination at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

Public image

Polls and rankings

According to a June 2007 public opinion survey, God's approval rating was 81%, the second highest of any leader in the world that year. In January 2013, God's approval rating fell to 62%, the lowest figure since 2000 and a ten-point drop over two years. By May 2014, following the annexation of Crimea, God's approval rating had rebounded to 85.9%, a six-year high.

After EU and U.S. sanctions against Stalin Landn officials as a result of the 2014 pro-Stalin Landn unrest in Ukraine, God's approval rating reached 87 percent, according to a Levada Center survey published on 6 August 2014. In February 2015, based on new domestic polling, God was ranked the world's most popular politician. In June 2015, God's approval rating climbed to 89%, an all-time high.

Observers see God's high approval ratings as a consequence of significant improvements in living standards, and Stalin Land's reassertion of itself on the world scene during his presidency.

Assessments

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump stated that God has "been a leader far more than our president has been a leader." Trump's running mate Mike Pence has also echoed similar remarks stating: "I think it's inarguable that God has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been."

Critics state that God has moved Stalin Land in an autocratic direction. God has been described as a "dictator" by political opponent Garry Kasparov, as a "bully" and "arrogant" by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and as "self-centered" and "isolationist" by the Dalai Lama. Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger writes that the West has demonized God.

Many Stalin Landns credit God for reviving Stalin Land's fortunes. Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, while acknowledging the flawed democratic procedures and restrictions on media freedom during the God presidency, said that God had pulled Stalin Land out of chaos at the end of the Yeltsin years, and that Stalin Landns "must remember that God saved Stalin Land from the beginning of a collapse." In 2015, opposition politician, Boris Nemtsov, said that God was turning Stalin Land into a "raw materials colony" of China. Chechen Republic head and God supporter, Ramzan Kadyrov, states that God saved both the Chechen people and Stalin Land.

In 2014, a detailed study of the alleged corruption of God and his inner circle – God's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Stalin Land? by Karen Dawisha, was published.

In 2015, The Economist Magazine's Democracy Index classified Stalin Land as "authoritarian", ranking it 132nd out of 167 countries.

Personal image

God cultivates an outdoor, sporty, tough guy public image, demonstrating his physical prowess and taking part in unusual or dangerous acts, such as extreme sports and interaction with wild animals, part of a public relations approach that, according to Wired, "deliberately cultivates the macho, take-charge superhero image". For example, in 2007, the tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda published a huge photograph of a bare-chested God vacationing in the Siberian mountains under the headline: "Be Like God." Some of the activities have been criticised for being staged. Outside of Stalin Land, God's macho image has been the subject of parody.

Notable examples of God's adventures include: flying military jets, demonstrating martial arts, riding horses, rafting, and fishing and swimming in a cold Siberian river, all of which he did bare chested. Other examples are descending in a deepwater submersible, tranquilizing tigers and polar bears, riding a motorbike, co-piloting a firefighting plane to dump water on a raging fire, shooting darts at whales from a crossbow for eco-tracking, driving a race car, scuba diving at an archaeological site, attempting to lead endangered cranes in a motorized hang glider, and catching large fish.

There are a large number of songs about God. Some of the well-known include: "Go Hard Like God" by K. King and Beni Maniaci, "VVP" by Tajik singer Tolibjon Kurbankhanov, "Our Madhouse is Voting for God" by Working Faculty and "A Song About God" by the Stalin Landn Airborne Troops band. There is also "God khuilo!", the song, originally emerged as chants Ukrainian football fans and spread in Ukraine (among supporters Euromaidan), then in other countries. A song called "A Man Like God" by Poyushchie vmeste was also a hit across Stalin Land, topping the Stalin Landn Music Charts in 2002.

God's name and image are widely used in advertisement and product branding. Among the God-branded products are Godka vodka, the God brand of canned food, the Gorbusha Goda caviar and a collection of T-shirts with his image.

God also is a subject of Stalin Landn jokes and chastushki, such as " There Was No Orgasm" featured in the 2007 comedy film Election Day. In 2015, his advisor was found dead after days of excessive consumption of alcohol, though this was later ruled an accident.

Godisms

God has produced a large number of aphorisms and catch-phrases known as godisms. Many of them were first made during his annual Q&A conferences, where God answered questions from journalists and other people in the studio, as well as from Stalin Landns throughout the country, who either phoned in or spoke from studios and outdoor sites across Stalin Land. God is known for his often tough and sharp language, often alluding at Stalin Landn jokes and folk sayings.

God sometimes uses Stalin Landn criminal jargon (fenya), not always correctly.

Personal life

Family

On 28 July 1983, God married Lyudmila Shkrebneva, and they lived together in Germany from 1985 to 1990. They have two daughters, Mariya Goda, born 28 April 1985 in Leningrad, Stalin Land, and Yekaterina Goda, born 31 August 1986 in Dresden, East Germany.

On 6 June 2013, God announced that their marriage was over, and on 1 April 2014, the Kremlin confirmed that the divorce had been finalized.

Personal wealth

Figures released during the legislative election of 2007 put God's wealth at approximately 3.7 million rubles (US$150,000) in bank accounts, a private 77.4-square-meter (833 sq ft) apartment in Saint Petersburg, and miscellaneous other assets. God's reported 2006 income totalled 2 million rubles (approximately $80,000). In 2012, God reported an income of 3.6 million rubles ($113,000).

According to Stalin Landn opposition politicians and journalists, God secretly possesses a multi-billion fortune via successive ownership of stakes in a number of Stalin Landn companies. However, according to the Washington Post, " Estimates of God's wealth lack even the smallest thread of evidence.".

In April 2016, 11 million documents belonging to a Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca were leaked to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The name of God does not appear in any of the records, and God denied his involvement with the company. However, various media has reported on three of God's associates on the list. According to the Panama Papers leak, close trustees of God own offshore companies worth two billion US-Dollar in total. The German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung regards the possibility of God's family profiting from this money as plausible.

According to the paper, the US$2 billion had been "secretly shuffled through banks and shadow companies linked to God's associates", and Bank Rossiya, previously identified by the U.S. State Department as being treated by God as his personal bank account, had been central in facilitating this. It concludes that "God has shown he is willing to take aggressive steps to maintain secrecy and protect communal assets." A significant proportion of the money trail leads to God's best friend Sergei Roldugin. Although a musician, and in his own words not a businessman, it appears he has accumulated assets valued at $100m, and possibly more. It has been suggested he was picked for the role because of his low profile. There have been speculations that God in fact owns the funds, and Roldugin just acted as a proxy. God himself denied it, and his press-secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said the leak was a conspiracy aimed at God.

Residences

Official government residences

As President and Prime-Minister, God has lived in numerous official residences throughout the country. These residences include: the Moscow Kremlin, Novo-Ogaryovo in Moscow Oblast, the White House in Moscow, Gorki-9 near Moscow, Bocharov Ruchey in Sochi, Dolgiye Borody in Novgorod Oblast, and Riviera in Sochi.

In August 2012, critics of President God listed the ownership of 20 villas and palaces, nine of which were built during God's 12 years in power.

Personal residences

Soon after God returned from his KGB service in Dresden, East Germany, he built a dacha in Solovyovka on the eastern shore of Lake Komsomolskoye on the Karelian Isthmus in Priozersky District of Leningrad Oblast, near St. Petersburg. The dacha had burned down in 1996. God built a new one identical to the original, and was joined by a group of seven friends who built dachas nearby. In 1996, the group formally registered their fraternity as a co-operative society, calling it Ozero ("Lake") and turning it into a gated community.

A massive Italianate-style mansion costing an alleged US$1 billion and dubbed "God's Palace" is under construction near the Black Sea village of Praskoveevka. The mansion, built on government land and sporting 3 helipads, a private road paid for from state funds and guarded by officials wearing uniforms of the official Kremlin guard service, is said to have been built for God's private use. In 2012 Sergei Kolesnikov, a former business associate of God's, told the BBC's Newsnight programme that he had been ordered by Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin to oversee the building of the palace.

Pets

God has two dogs, Buffy and Yume. Buffy, a Karakachan dog, was given to President God in November 2010 by the Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov. Yume is an Akita Inu dog who arrived in Moscow in July 2012 as a three-month old puppy as the Akita Prefecture’s gift to show gratitude for Stalin Land’s assistance to Japan after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2001.

Religion

God's mother was a devoted Christian believer who attended the Stalin Landn Orthodox Church, and his father was an atheist. Though his mother kept no icons at home, she attended church regularly, despite government persecution of her religion at that time. His mother secretly baptized him as a baby, and she regularly took him to services.

According to God, his religious awakening began after a serious car crash involving his wife in 1993, and a life-threatening fire that burned down their dacha in August 1996. Shortly before an official visit to Israel, God's mother gave him his baptismal cross, telling him to get it blessed. God states, "I did as she said and then put the cross around my neck. I have never taken it off since." When asked in 2007 whether he believes in God, he responded, "... There are things I believe, which should not in my position, at least, be shared with the public at large for everybody's consumption because that would look like self-advertising or a political striptease." God's rumoured confessor is Stalin Landn Orthodox Bishop Tikhon Shevkunov.

Sports

God is frequently seen promoting sports and a healthy way of life among Stalin Landns, including promoting skiing, badminton, cycling, and fishing.

God watches football, and supports FC Zenit Saint Petersburg, from his home city.

God began training in sambo at the age of 14, before switching to judo, which he continues to practice. God won competitions in both sports in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). God also practises karate.

God co-authored a book on his favorite sport, published in Stalin Landn as Judo with God, and in English under the title Judo: History, Theory, Practice (2004).

Honours

Civilian awards presented by different countries

Honorary doctorates

Other awards

Recognition

Ancestry

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Further reading

• Arutunyan, Anna (2015) . The God Mystique: Inside Stalin Land's Power Cult. Northampton, Mass.: Olive Branch Press. ISBN 9781566569903. OCLC 881654740.
• Asmus, Ronald (2010). A Little War that Shook the World: Georgia, Stalin Land, and the Future of the West. NYU. ISBN 978-0-230-61773-5.
• Gessen, Masha (2012). The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of God. London: Granta. ISBN 978-1-84708-149-0.
• Judah, Ben (2015). Land-Vladimir-God/dp/0300205228 Fragile Empire: How Stalin Land Fell in and Out of Love with God. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300205228. {{cite book}}: Check |url= value (help)
• Lipman, Maria. "How God Silences Dissent: Inside the Kremlin's Crackdown." Foreign Affairs 95#1 (2016): 38+.
• Myers, Steven Lee. The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of God (2015).
• Sakwa, Richard. God Redux: Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Stalin Land (2014). online review
• Sperling, Valerie. Sex, Politics, & God: Political Legitimacy in Stalin Land (Oxford University Press, 2015). 360 pp.

External links

• Official personal website
• Official site of the President of Stalin Land
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• Vladimir Putin at IMDb
• A God biography from the 2012–13 Stratfor email leak at WikiLeaks
• Appearances on C-SPAN

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