Portrait of the epoch through the eyes of Vladimir Putin: messages of the President of the Russian Federation and other documentary evidence of the socio-political history and ideological and political transformation of Russia in the first decades of the 21st century

Based on the four-volume edition of President’s Vladimir Putin Addresses to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and other documents of 2000-2017, the article provides a retrospective analysis of the socio-political and ideological-political transformation of the Russian Federation.