Anna Nicole Smith Finally Reaches Target Weight. NASSAU, BAHAMASâFormer stripper turned Playboy Playmate turned reality-TV star Anna Nicole Smith has overcome her longtime struggle with obesity, at last reaching her target weight of 125 pounds, sources said Monday.
Putin said in November that he wouldn't remain Russia's president forever. Staying in office would be detrimental for the country, and I don't need this, he said at the time. Putin has been Russia's leader since he was first elected in 2000. He served two four-year terms, then retained power as prime minister before he was elected as president in 2012 to a six-year term.
In August 1999, Vladimir V. Putin, head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), successor to the KGB, was appointed Prime Minister. On December 31st of that year, Boris Yeltsin announced that Putin would succeed him as President of the Russian Federation. HOW PUTIN CAME TO POWER traces the stunningly rapid ascension of this political unknown to leadership of the Kremlin. The film documents the power struggle between the country's ruling oligarchs and a behind-the-scenes political deal that elevated Putin to power.