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Vladimir Putin: Supreme Commander-in-Chief

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is also the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, bearing the highest responsibility for protecting the country.

Sputnik presents a photo gallery showing this side of the Russian president’s official duties.

 

© Sputnik / Alexei Nikolsky / Go to the mediabankAbove: Russian President Vladimir Putin (foreground, left) and General Director and Principal Design Engineer at The Ural Design Office of Transport Mechanical Engineering Andrei Terlikov at a shop at the Ural Design Office of Transport Mechanical Engineering of Uralvagonzavod, November 25, 2015.
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Above: Russian President Vladimir Putin (foreground, left) and General Director and Principal Design Engineer at The Ural Design Office of Transport Mechanical Engineering Andrei Terlikov at a shop at the Ural Design Office of Transport Mechanical Engineering of Uralvagonzavod, November 25, 2015.
© Sputnik / Alexei Druzhinin / Go to the mediabankAbove: Russian President Vladimir Putin (center) poses for a photo with members of the Vympel military and patriotic center at the flower-laying ceremony at the Monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square, November 4, 2015.
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Above: Russian President Vladimir Putin (center) poses for a photo with members of the Vympel military and patriotic center at the flower-laying ceremony at the Monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square, November 4, 2015.
© Sputnik / Alexei Nikolsky / Go to the mediabankAbove: Russian President Vladimir Putin touring the National Defense Management Center and during a meeting on the Russian Airspace Forces' activities in Syria, November 17, 2015.
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Above: Russian President Vladimir Putin touring the National Defense Management Center and during a meeting on the Russian Airspace Forces' activities in Syria, November 17, 2015.
© Sputnik / Alexei Nikolsky / Go to the mediabankAbove: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (right) during a visit to the Taman Kalinin Motorized Rifle Brigade of the October Revolution Banner and the Red Banner, February 22, 2012.
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Above: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (right) during a visit to the Taman Kalinin Motorized Rifle Brigade of the October Revolution Banner and the Red Banner, February 22, 2012.
© Sputnik / Alexei Druzhinin / Go to the mediabankAbove: From right: Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kyrgyzstan's President Almazbek Atambayev and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko during a visit to the Russian National Defense Management Center, December 23, 2014.
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Above: From right: Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kyrgyzstan's President Almazbek Atambayev and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko during a visit to the Russian National Defense Management Center, December 23, 2014.
© Sputnik / Dmitry Astajov / Go to the mediabankAbove: Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the new headquarters of the GRU, Main Intelligence Administration under the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
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Above: Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the new headquarters of the GRU, Main Intelligence Administration under the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
© Sputnik / Alexei Druzhinin / Go to the mediabankAbove: President Vladimir Putin (left) greets commanders of the units that took part in the military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 in Moscow's Red Square, May 9, 2015.
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Above: President Vladimir Putin (left) greets commanders of the units that took part in the military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 in Moscow's Red Square, May 9, 2015.
© Sputnik / Alexei Druzhinin / Go to the mediabankAbove: Russian President Vladimir Putin (second from right) observes troops in action in mobile defense on intermediate lines during the active part of the first stage of the Kavkaz-2012 strategic command-staff exercises on the Rajewski training ground in Krasnodar territory, September 17, 2012.
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Above: Russian President Vladimir Putin (second from right) observes troops in action in mobile defense on intermediate lines during the active part of the first stage of the Kavkaz-2012 strategic command-staff exercises on the Rajewski training ground in Krasnodar territory, September 17, 2012.
© Sputnik / Alexei Druzhinin / Go to the mediabankAbove: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on an expedition to Ubsunur Hollow Biosphere Preserve inspecting snow leopard's habitat (archive photo).
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Above: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on an expedition to Ubsunur Hollow Biosphere Preserve inspecting snow leopard's habitat (archive photo).
© Sputnik / Mikhail Klementiev / Go to the mediabankAbove: Russian President Vladimir Putin salutes crews of ships participating in the navy military parade devoted to Russian Navy Day held in the Kaliningrad Maritime Canal in Baltiysk, July 26, 2015.
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Above: Russian President Vladimir Putin salutes crews of ships participating in the navy military parade devoted to Russian Navy Day held in the Kaliningrad Maritime Canal in Baltiysk, July 26, 2015.
© Sputnik / Alexei Druzhinin / Go to the mediabankAbove: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the testing grounds of the Central Aero-Dynamic Institute (TsAGI) in Zhukovsky near Moscow after the test flight of a Sukhoi T-50 fifth generation fighter, June 17, 2010.
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Above: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the testing grounds of the Central Aero-Dynamic Institute (TsAGI) in Zhukovsky near Moscow after the test flight of a Sukhoi T-50 fifth generation fighter, June 17, 2010.
© Sputnik / Vladimir Rodionov / Go to the mediabankAbove: Sergei Ivanov, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister, and Russian President Vladimir Putin (left to right) inspecting mobile Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile systems while on a visit to a division of the Strategic Missile Forces deployed in Teikovo, Ivanovo Region.
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Above: Sergei Ivanov, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister, and Russian President Vladimir Putin (left to right) inspecting mobile Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile systems while on a visit to a division of the Strategic Missile Forces deployed in Teikovo, Ivanovo Region.
© Sputnik / Vladimir Rodionov / Go to the mediabankAbove: Russia's President Vladimir Putin in the cockpit of the Pavel Taran Tu-160 strategic bomber, by which he reached the training area of the strategic long-range aviation and the Northern Fleet.
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Above: Russia's President Vladimir Putin in the cockpit of the Pavel Taran Tu-160 strategic bomber, by which he reached the training area of the strategic long-range aviation and the Northern Fleet.
© Sputnik / Alexei Druzhinin / Go to the mediabankAbove: Prime Minister, President-Elect Vladimir Putin aiming an AK-47 submachine-gun mock-up in the electronic shooting gallery of the mobile lecturing/exhibition facility while visiting the Russian Railways Company's Research and Technological Center, April 26, 2012.
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Above: Prime Minister, President-Elect Vladimir Putin aiming an AK-47 submachine-gun mock-up in the electronic shooting gallery of the mobile lecturing/exhibition facility while visiting the Russian Railways Company's Research and Technological Center, April 26, 2012.
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