Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of Russia (Re-elected on Mar 4, 2012. Took office on May 7, 2012) Vladimir Putin was born in Leningrad on October 7, 1952. In 1975, he graduated with a degree in law from Leningrad State University. He later earned a Ph.D. degree in economics. After graduation, Mr. Putin was assigned to work in the KGB. From More →
Abd Rabbuh Mansur Al-Hadi, President of Yemen (Elected on Feb 21, 2012) Field Marshal Abd Rabbuh Mansur Al-Hadi (Arabic: عبد ربه منصور الهادي; born 1 September 1945) is a Yemeni politician who is the President of Yemen since 27 February 2012. He was previously the Vice President from 1994 to 2012. Between 4 June and 23 September 2011, he was the More →
Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow, President of Turkmenistan (Re-elected on Feb 12, 2012) Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhammedow, born June 29, 1957) has been the President of Turkmenistan since December 21, 2006, when he became acting president following the death of Saparmurat Niyazov. On February 14, 2007, Berdimuhammedow was named the winner of the presidential election held three days earlier, and immediately sworn into office. More →
Kim Jong-il, President of North Korea (died on Dec 19, 2011) Kim Jong-il, at 64, is the unchallenged leader of North Korea. Since he succeeded his father Kim Il-sung in 1994 the secretive communist state has sunk further into poverty, while its foreign policy has become ever more combative and anti-Western. The birth of Kim Il-sung’s eldest son – now More →
Truong Tan Sang, President of Vietnam (since July 25, 2011) Trương Tấn Sang (born on 21 January 1949) is the current president of Vietnam and the senior member of the politburo, the executive committee of the ruling Communist Party. He was ranked as the party’s number one leader following the 11th National Congress held in Hanoi in January 2011. He More →
Salva Kiir, President of South Sudan On July 9, 2011, South Sudan becomes an independent country. Salva Kiir becomes President. In the late 1960s, Kiir joined the Anyanya in the First Sudanese Civil War. By the time of the 1972 Addis Ababa Agreement, he was a low-ranking officer. In 1983, when John Garang joined an army mutiny he had been sent to More →
Laurent Gbagbo, President of Cote d’Ivoire (Forces that support Alassane Ouattara for President capture Laurent Gbagbo on Apr 11, 2011) Born on May 31, 1945, in Gagnoa, Ivory Coast; son of Zepe Paul Koudou and Gado Marguerite Koudou Paul; married Jaqueline Chanoos, July 20, 1967 (divorced, June of 1982); married Simone Ehivet, January 19, 1989; children: (from first marriage) Koudou More →
Atifete Jahjaga, President of Kosovo (since Apr 7, 2011) Atifete Jahjaga, born 20 April 1975, is the 4th and current President of Kosovo. She is the first female, the first non-partisan candidate, and the youngest to be elected to the office. She previously served as the Deputy Director of the Kosovo Police, holding the rank of Major General, the highest More →
As a result of the collapse of the Gaddafi regime (and Gaddafi’s death on Oct 20, 2011) in August 2011 due to the Libyan civil war, Libya is under de facto administration of the National Transitional Council (NTC). The NTC has pledged to organize democratic elections by April 2012, and expects Libya to develop into a constitutional democracy by 2013. More →
Thein Sein, President and former Prime Minister of Myanmar (Burma) (elected President on Feb 4, 2011) Thein Sein (born 20 April 1945) is the current prime minister of Burma (officially Myanmar). He was appointed in April 2007 by the nation’s ruling military junta as interim prime minister, replacing Soe Win, who was undergoing medical treatment. Thein Sein became Soe Win’s More →
Fouad Mebazaa, Interim President of Tunisia (since on Jan 15, 2011) Fouad Mebazaa (Arabic: فؤاد المبزع ), born on16 June 1933, has been the Interim President of Tunisia since 15 January 2011. He was active in Neo Destour prior to Tunisian independence, served as Minister of Youth and Sports, Minister of Public Health, and Minister of Culture and Information, and More →
Robert Gabriel Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe First prime minister (1980– ) and president (1987– ) of Zimbabwe, born in Kutama, Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia). Largely self-educated, he became a teacher in 1942. After short periods in the National Democratic Party and Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU), he was briefly detained, but escaped to co-found, with Ndabaningi Sithole, the Zimbabwe African More →
Islam Abdughanievich Karimov, President of Uzbekistan The words “first”, “for the first time”, “never before” have been used more often and insistently lately when talking about Uzbekistan. After 1989, the days of the republic were full of so many events and phenomena that it would be sufficient for dozens of years in other times. Among them was the declaration of More →
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler of Abu Dhabi, was elected as the new President of the United Arab Emirates on 3rd November, to succeed his father, the late HH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. HH Sheikh Khalifa has committed himself to continue in the More →
Emomalii Rahmon, President of Tadjikistan He was born to a peasant family in Dangara, Kulob province. As an apparatchik rising through the nomenklatura, his original power base was as chairman of the collective state farm of his native Dangara. In 1990 he was elected a people’s deputy to the Supreme Council of the Tajik SSR. President Rahmon Nabiyev, fearing for More →