The story of how the Kremlin cleaned the biography of Vladimir Putin Roman Badanin, Mikhail Rubin and other journalists of Project, October 7, 2022 The Russians were unlikely to notice that for 23 years of the reign of Vladimir Putin, his biography in the presentation of the Kremlin changed several times. On the 70th anniversary of the Russian president, the Project tells how the authorities hid the facts and evidence of Putin’s life, his relations with family, friends and his own people.