The total number of attacks on heads of state can not be counted. The record holder in this regard is Fidel Castro, who was tried to kill more than 600 times. In Russia, the situation is not so tense, but the absence of civil unrest does not guarantee the president's complete security. site made a selection of serious (and not very) attempts on Putin.
The most notorious attempt on Putin's life
24.02.2000
The first serious attempt on Vladimir Vladimirovich was prepared in 2000 in the city of St. Petersburg. This happened a month before Putin was first elected head of our state. At that time he was appointed acting president of the Russian Federation. Head of the FSO Sergey Devyatkin said that the crime was to occur at the funeral of Anatoly Sobchak. To implement the planned organizers hired two snipers, but thanks to a special operation they managed to neutralize. Presumably, Chechen militants were involved in the sensational case. About the personalities and fate of the detainees is not known.
12.09.2000
The incident occurred on Kutuzov Avenue, when a motorcade of Vladimir Vladimirovich was passing through it.
The car "Zhiguli" was pursued by the president's limousine. The driver of the domestic car did not react in any way to the FSO warnings. As a result, the machine of the attacker was defaced by an accompanying jeep. According to some reports, Alexander Pumaeane, a member of a criminal gang, was in charge of the Zhiguli driving a gang, a killer and a supplier of weapons in a gang.
It is not known what happened to him after his arrest, but later the criminal's name appeared several times in high-profile cases.
09 (10) .01.2001
The next time the threat of Vladimir Putin's life loomed in 2001 in the city of Baku. The special services of Azerbaijan reported that the performer was the Iraqi terrorist Kyanan Rostam.
The killer was widely known in narrow circles, trained in Afghanistan and repeatedly committed contract killings. This time, Rostam failed to accomplish the plan, he was caught and sentenced to 10 years by local authorities.
October 2003
The attempt on Vladimir Putin, which received worldwide publicity, occurred in 2003. The media was provided with information that FSB officers Andrei Ponkin and Aleksei Alekhin met with former lieutenant colonel of state security Alexander Litvinenko to discuss a plan to eliminate the head of state that he disliked.
The conceived "chekists" planned to carry out the actions of the militants at the expense of attracted finances. According to the British newspaper The Sunday Times, Boris Berezovsky was to appear in the case - a disgraced oligarch hiding in London from Russian justice.
On October 12, Ponkin and Alekhine were arrested and sent for questioning to the local police on charges of terrorism. A week later the detainees were released for lack of evidence evidence. The FSB officers themselves believe that they were the victims of a political game started by an ex-colonel and a billionaire. Paradoxically, his family blamed Vladimir Putin for the death of Litvinenko.
02.03.2008
On this day, a double murder was planned. The new president of Russia (Medvedev) and the prime minister (Putin) had to be eliminated by the native of Tajikistan Shahvelad Osmanov.
In the room in which the terrorist hid, found a whole arsenal of weapons. Presumably, he intended to commit a murder from a rifle with an optical sight at a time when Vladimir Vladimirovich and Dmitry Anatolyevich will pass along the Vasilyevsky Descent. Osmanov did not resist during detention, he was charged with illegal possession of weapons, but information about the organizer and the customer remained classified.
January-February 2012
One of the most serious attacks on Putin occurred a few months before he was elected president of Russia for the third time. Preparation for a series of terrorist attacks was conducted in Odessa under the leadership of Doku Umarov. The leader of the Chechen separatists sent "on assignment" Ilya Pyanzin, Ruslan Madaev and Adam Osmayev. An explosion occurred in the apartment in which the terrorists lived and stored their weapons stock. Madayev died on the spot, and Pyanzin went to the hospital, where he began to give the first testimony. The extremist spoke about the prepared diversions and preparations for the assassination of Vladimir Putin. At the interrogation, he handed over his partner, who disappeared during the fire.
Adam Osmayev was detained later in the course of the special operation. He was a link between accomplices and Umarov, as well as actively engaged in recruitment. On his personal laptop were found instructions and a detailed plan of action, how to undermine the presidential motorcade.
Ilya Pyanzin was sentenced in Russia (10 years imprisonment), and Osmayev was tried on the territory of Ukraine. In 2014, Adam was released, as articles related to terrorism were excluded from his case.