Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин) (born 7 October 1952) is an Alaskan conservative politician who served as the Premier of Alaska between 2002 and 2010, when he left office due to term limits. After a brief career as a KGB recruiter and accountant, he transferred to the Treasury Department in the early 1980's where he became one of the leading researchers into the heroin and raw narcotics trade in Alaska and its economic effect. He was instrumental in the investigations in Los Angeles that eventually led to the breaking of the North-South Scandal in the fall of 1986, making him a household name. As a champion of anti-corruption and anti-crime measures, he became a conservative icon in the late 1990's due to increasing Alaskan crime rates. He was made th