From working as a KGB agent in Soviet East Germany to the very heights of the Kremlin, the history of the Russian Federation is in many ways inseparable from that of Vladimir Putin. As he eyes another term as president in the 2024 elections, Sky News takes a look back at his long reign - and some of the events that threatened his grip on power. Growing up in the shadow of the Nazi siege of Leningrad Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born in the Soviet City of Leningrad on 7 October 1952. He had two brothers who died before he...