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This is a list of presidential trips made by Vladimir Putin. During his presidency, which began with his inauguration on May 7, 2000, he has traveled to 72 countries as of November 2024, in addition to many more domestic trips.
Number of visits | Country |
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1 visit (17) | |
2 visits (18) | |
3 visits (12) | |
4 visits (2) | |
5 visits (5) | |
6 visits (2) | |
7 visits (3) | |
8 visits (2) | |
9 visits (2) | |
10 visits (1) | Uzbekistan |
11 visits (1) | Italy |
12 visits (1) | Tajikistan |
13 visits (1) | Kyrgyzstan |
14 visits (1) | Turkey |
17 visits (1) | France |
18 visits (1) | Germany |
20 visits (1) | China |
21 visits (1) | Ukraine |
27 visits (1) | Belarus |
32 visits (1) | Kazakhstan |
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
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Belarus | Minsk | April 16 | Met with President Alexander Lukashenko. This is the first foreign visit after Putin became acting president. It was also after he won the 2000 Russian presidential election. |
United Kingdom | London | April 17 | Met with Queen Elizabeth II and British prime minister Tony Blair. Also met with British Business executives. |
Ukraine | Sevastopol, Kyiv | April 18 | Met with President Leonid Kuchma. Discussed ways to help develop the Black Sea Fleet. Putin also spoke out strongly against NATO expansion. |
The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2000:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
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Uzbekistan | Tashkent | May 18–19 | Met with President Islam Karimov; this is the first foreign visit after Vladimir Putin's inauguration for the first presidential term. |
Turkmenistan | Ashgabat | May 19 | Met with President Saparmurat Niyazov. |
Belarus | Minsk | May 23–24 | Met with President Alexander Lukashenko. Also met with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev and Armenian president Robert Kocharian. |
Italy | Rome, Milan | June 3–6 | Met with Prime Minister Giuliano Amato and President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi |
Vatican City | Vatican City | June 5 | Met with Pope John Paul II. |
Spain | Madrid | June 13–14 | Met with Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar and King Juan Carlos. |
Germany | Berlin | June 15–16 | Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and President Johannes Rau. |
Moldova | Chișinău | June 16–17 | Met with President Petru Lucinschi. |
Tajikistan | Dushanbe | July 5 | Attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. |
China | Beijing | July 18–19 | Met with President and Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin. |
North Korea | Pyongyang | July 19–20 | Met with Supreme leader and Workers' Party General Secretary Kim Jong Il and participated in a banquet at the Mokran House.[1] |
Japan | Okinawa | July 21–23 | Attended the G8 summit. |
Ukraine | Yalta, Foros | August 18 | Attended the CIS summit. |
Japan | Tokyo | September 3–5 | Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori and Emperor Akihito. |
United States | New York City | September 6–8 | Attended the Millennium Summit; met with President Bill Clinton. |
India | New Delhi, Agra | October 2–5 | State visit. Met with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and President Kocheril Raman Narayanan. |
Kazakhstan | Astana | October 9–10 | Attended the Eurasian Economic Community summit. |
Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | October 11 | Attended the CSTO summit. |
France | Paris | October 30 – November 1 | Met with President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. Attended the Russia-EU summit. |
Mongolia | Ulaanbaatar | November 13–14 | Official visit. Met with President Natsagiyn Bagabandi and Prime Minister Nambaryn Enhbayar. |
Brunei | Bandar Seri Begawan | November 15–16 | Attended the APEC summit. |
Belarus | Minsk | November 30 – December 1 | Attended the CIS summit. |
Cuba | Havana | December 14–17 | State visit. Met with President and First Secretary of the Communist Party Fidel Castro |
Canada | Ottawa, Toronto | December 18–19 | Official Visit. Met with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Governor General Adrienne Clarkson. |
The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2001:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
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Azerbaijan | Baku | January 9–10 | Official visit. Met with President Heydar Aliyev. |
Austria | Vienna | February 8–11 | Met with President Thomas Klestil. |
Ukraine | February 12 | Met with President Leonid Kuchma. | |
South Korea | Seoul | February 27–28 | State visit. Met with President Kim Dae-jung and Prime Minister Lee Han-dong. |
Vietnam | Hanoi | March 1–2 | State visit. Met with President Tran Duc Luong and General Secretary of the Communist Party Le Kha Phieu. |
Sweden | Stockholm | March 23 | Met with EU Council Members. |
Armenia | Yerevan | May 24–25 | Attended the CSTO summit. |
Belarus | Minsk | May 31 | Attended the CIS summit. |
China | Shanghai | June 14–15 | Attended the SCO summit. |
Yugoslavia | Belgrade | June 16–17 | Met with Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and Serbian prime minister Zoran Đinđić. |
Slovenia | Ljubljana | June 16 | Attended the summit meeting with US president George W. Bush. |
Italy | Genoa | July 16–22 | Attended the G8 summit. |
Belarus | Vitebsk | July 25 | Attended the trilateral summit meeting of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. |
Ukraine | Crimea, Sevastopol | July 28–29 | Met with President Leonid Kuchma. |
Ukraine | Kyiv | August 23–24 | Met with President Leonid Kuchma. Marked the 10th Anniversary of Ukraine's Independence. |
Finland | Helsinki | September 2–3 | Met with President Tarja Halonen.[2] |
Armenia | Yerevan | September 14–15 | Official visit. Met with President Robert Kocharian. |
Germany | Berlin | September 22–27 | State visit. Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and President Johannes Rau. |
Belgium | Brussels | October 1–3 | Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and King Albert II. |
China | Shanghai | October 19–21 | Working visit to China. Attended the APEC summit. |
Tajikistan | Dushanbe | October 22 | Met with President Emomali Rakhmonov. |
United States | Washington, D.C., Houston, Crawford, New York City | November 7–16 | State visit. Met with President George W. Bush. |
Greece | Athens | December 6–8 | Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Konstantinos Simitis and President Konstantinos Stephanopoulos. |
Germany | Hanover | December 9 | Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. |
Ukraine | Kharkiv | December 14 | Met with President Leonid Kuchma. |
United Kingdom | Chequers | December 21–22 | Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair. |
The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2002:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
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France | Paris | January 15 | Met with President Jacques Chirac. |
Poland | Warsaw, Poznań | January 16–17 | Official visit.[3] Met with Prime Minister Leszek Miller and President Aleksander Kwaśniewski. |
Kazakhstan | Almaty | February 28 – March 2 | Attended the CIS summit. |
Ukraine | Odesa | March 17 | Attended the trilateral summit meeting of Russia, Ukraine and Moldova. |
Turkmenistan | Ashgabat | April 23–24 | Attended the Caspian Summit. |
Italy | Rome | May 28 | Attended the Russia-NATO summit. |
Kazakhstan | Almaty | June 4 | Attended the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia Summit. |
Canada | Kananaskis | June 26–28 | Attended the G8 summit. |
Kazakhstan | Aktau | July 6 | Attended the informal meeting of the heads of Central Asian states and Russia. |
Moldova | Chișinău | October 6–7 | Attended the CIS summit. |
Ukraine | Zaporizhzhia | October 6 | Marked the 70th Anniversary of Dnieper Hydroelectric Plant Construction. |
Belgium | Brussels | November 11 | Attended the Russia-EU summit. |
Norway | Oslo | November 12 | Official visit. Met with King Harald V. |
China | Beijing | November 27 – December 3 | Official visit. Met with President Jiang Zemin and new-elected Communist Party General Secretary Hu Jintao. |
India | New Delhi | December 3–4 | Met with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and President Abdul Kalam. |
Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | December 5 | Met with President Askar Akayev. |
The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2003:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
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Belarus | Minsk | January 19–20 | Met with President Aleksandr Lukashenko. |
Ukraine | Kyiv | January 27–29 | Met with President Leonid Kuchma. Attended the CIS summit. |
Germany | Berlin | February 9 | Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. |
France | Paris, Bordeaux | February 10–12 | State visit. Met with President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. |
Bulgaria | Sofia | March 1–3 | State visit. Met with President Georgi Parvanov and Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha. |
Tajikistan | Dushanbe | April 26–27 | Met with President Emomali Rakhmonov. |
Ukraine | Yalta | April 30 – May 4 | Met with President Leonid Kuchma. |
France | Évian-les-Bains | June 1–3 | Attended the G8 summit. |
United Kingdom | London, Edinburgh | June 22–26 | State visit; met with UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II. In Edinburgh, he met with First Minister of Scotland Jack McConnell. |
Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | August 5 | Official visit; met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and King Sirajuddin. |
Uzbekistan | Samarkand | August 6 | Met with President Islam Karimov. |
Italy | Sardinia | August 29–31 | Met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. |
Ukraine | Yalta | September 17–19 | Attended the CIS summit. |
United States | New York City, Camp David | September 20–27 | Attended the 58th session of the United Nations General Assembly; met with President George W. Bush. |
Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | October 16–17 | Met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. |
Thailand | Bangkok | October 17–22 | State visit. Met with Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and King Bhumibol Adulyadej and attended the APEC summit. |
Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | October 23 | Met with President Askar Akayev. |
Italy | Rome | November 3–6 | State visit; met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and President Carlo Ciampi and attended the Russia-EU summit. |
Vatican City | Vatican City | November 5 | State visit. Met with Pope John Paul II. |
France | Paris | November 7 | Met with President Jacques Chirac. |
The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2004:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
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Kazakhstan | Astana | January 9–10 | Official visit. Met with President Nursultan Nazarbayev. |
Ukraine | Kyiv | January 23–24 | Met with President Leonid Kuchma. |
Ukraine | Yalta | May 23–24 | Meeting of Heads of States Parties to the Agreement on Common Economic Space. This is the first foreign visit after re-election for the second presidential term. |
France | Arromanche, Caen | June 6 | Marked the 60th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy. |
United States | Sea Island, Washington, D.C. | June 8–11 | Attended the G8 summit and the funeral of former US President Ronald Reagan. |
Uzbekistan | Tashkent | June 16–17 | Attended the SCO summit. |
Belarus | Minsk | July 1 | Marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus. |
Austria | Vienna | July 10 | Attended the state funeral of President Thomas Klestil. |
Ukraine | Kyiv | July 26 | Met with President Leonid Kuchma. |
Kazakhstan | Astana | September 15–16 | Attended the CIS summit. |
China | Beijing | October 14–15 | Official visit. Met with President & Communist Party General Secretary Hu Jintao, and Premier Wen Jiabao. |
Tajikistan | Dushanbe | October 16–18 | Official visit. Met with President Emomali Rakhmonov. Visited Russia's Military Base. |
Ukraine | Kyiv | October 26–27 | Official visit. Attended the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Ukraine. |
Ukraine | November 12 | Met with President Leonid Kuchma. | |
Chile | Santiago | November 19–21 | Official visit. Met with President Ricardo Lagos. Attended the APEC summit. |
Brazil | Brasília | November 22 | Official visit. Met with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. |
Portugal | Lisbon | November 23 | Met with President Jorge Sampaio and Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes. |
Netherlands | The Hague | November 25–26 | Attended the Russia-EU summit. |
India | New Delhi, Bangalore | December 3–5 | Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Abdul Kalam. |
Turkey | Ankara | December 5–6 | Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Ahmet Necdet Sezer. |
Germany | Hamburg, Schleswig | December 20–21 | Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. |
The following are the international trips made by Putin in 2005:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
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Poland | Kraków | January 27–28 | Marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. |
Slovakia | Bratislava | February 24–25 | Official visit; attended the summit meeting with US president George W. Bush. |
Ukraine | Kyiv | March 19 | Met with President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. |
Armenia | Yerevan | March 24–25 | Met with President Robert Kocharian. |
Germany | Hanover | April 10–11 | Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. |
Egypt | Cairo | April 26–27 | Met with President Hosni Mubarak. |
Both Israel and Palestine | Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ramallah | April 27–29 | Met with Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. |
Kazakhstan | Baikonur | June 2 | Marked the 50th anniversary of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. |
Kazakhstan | Astana | July 5 | Attended the SCO summit. |
United Kingdom | Gleneagles | July 6–8 | Attended the G8 summit. |
Finland | Kultaranta. Turku | August 1–2 | Met with President Tarja Halonen. |
Germany | Berlin | September 8 | Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. |
United States | New York City, Bayonne, Washington, D.C. | September 14–17 | Attended the 60th session of the United Nations General Assembly and the 2005 World Summit. Met with President George W. Bush. |
Belgium | Brussels | October 3 | Official visit. |
United Kingdom | London | October 4–5 | Met with UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. Attended the Russia-EU summit. |
Netherlands | The Hague | November 1–2 | State visit. Met with Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Queen Beatrix. |
Turkey | Samsun | November 17–18 | |
South Korea | Busan | November 18–19 | Attended the APEC summit. |
Japan | Tokyo | November 20–22 | Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Emperor Akihito. |
Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | December 13–14 | Attended the Russia-ASEAN summit. |
The following are the international trips made by Putin in 2006:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
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Kazakhstan | Astana | January 10–12 | Official visit; met with President Nursultan Nazarbayev. |
Spain | Madrid | February 8–9 | State visit; met with King Juan Carlos. |
Azerbaijan | Baku | February 21–22 | |
Hungary | Budapest | February 28 – March 1 | Official visit; met with President László Sólyom and Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány. |
Czech Republic | Prague | March 1–2 | Official visit; met with President Vaclav Klaus. |
Algeria | Algiers | March 10 | Official visit. |
China | Beijing | March 21–22 | Official visit; met with President and Communist Party General Secretary Hu Jintao. |
China | Shanghai | June 14–15 | Attended the SCO summit. |
Kazakhstan | Almaty | June 16–18 | |
Belarus | Minsk | June 23 | Attended the CSTO summit. |
Greece | Athens | September 4 | Attended the trilateral summit meeting of Russia, Greece and Bulgaria. |
South Africa | Cape Town | September 5–6 | Official visit; met with President Thabo Mbeki. |
Morocco | Casablanca | September 7 | Official visit; met with King Mohammed VI |
France | Le Bourget, Paris | September 22–23 | Attended the trilateral summit meeting of Russia, France, and Germany. |
Germany | Dresden, Munich, Bavaria | October 10–11 | Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel. |
Finland | October 20 | Attended the Russia-EU summit. | |
Vietnam | Hanoi | November 18–19 | Official visit to Vietnam. Met with President Nguyen Minh Triet. Attended the APEC Vietnam 2006 summit. |
Finland | Helsinki | November 23–24 | Met with President Tarja Halonen. Attended the Russia-EU summit. |
Belarus | Minsk | November 28 | Attended the CIS summit. |
Ukraine | Kyiv | December 22 | Met with Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. |
The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2007:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
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India | New Delhi | January 25–26 | Official visit; met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Abdul Kalam. |
Germany | Munich | February 10 | Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel. |
Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | February 11–12 | Official visit; met with King Abdullah. |
Qatar | Doha | February 12 | Visit to Qatar. |
Jordan | Amman | February 13 | Official visit. Met with King Abdullah II. |
Italy | Rome, Bari | March 13–14 | Met with Prime Minister Romano Prodi and President Giorgio Napolitano. |
Vatican City | Vatican City | March 13 | Met with Pope Benedict XVI. |
Greece | Athens | March 15 | Attended the trilateral summit meeting of Russia, Greece and Bulgaria. |
Kazakhstan | Astana | May 10 | Official visit. Met with President Nursultan Nazarbayev. |
Turkmenistan | Ashgabat | May 11–12 | Met with President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov. Attended the trilateral summit meeting of Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. |
Austria | Vienna | May 23–24 | Official visit. Met with Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer. |
Luxembourg | Luxembourg City | May 24[4][5] | Official visit. Met with Grand-Duke Henri and Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker |
Germany | Heiligendamm | June 6–8 | Attended the G8 summit. |
Croatia | Zagreb | June 24 | |
Turkey | Istanbul | June 25 | Met with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Ahmet Sezer. |
United States | Kennebunkport, Maine[6] | July 2 | Met with President George W. Bush. |
Guatemala | Guatemala City | July 3–5 | Working visit to Guatemala. |
Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | August 16–17, 2007 | Attended the SCO summit. |
Indonesia | Jakarta | September 6 | Official visit. Met with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. |
Australia | Sydney | September 7–9 | Official visit. Met with Prime Minister John Howard and Governor General Michael Jeffery. Attended the APEC summit. |
United Arab Emirates | Abu Dhabi | September 10 | |
Tajikistan | Dushanbe | October 5–6 | Attended the CIS summit. |
Germany | Wiesbaden | October 14–15 | Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel. |
Iran | Tehran | October 16 | Met with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. |
Portugal | Lisbon, Mafra | October 25–26 | Met with President Aníbal Cavaco Silva and Prime Minister Jose Socrates. Attended the Russia-EU summit. |
Belarus | Minsk | December 14 |
The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2008:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
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Bulgaria | Sofia | January 17–18 | Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev and President Georgi Parvanov. |
Romania | Bucharest | April 3–4 | Attended the Russia-NATO Council. |
Libya | Tripoli | April 16–17 | Met with Leader Muammar Gaddafi. |
Italy | Olbia, Gallura | April 17–18 | Met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. |
The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2012:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
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Belarus | Minsk | May 31 – June 1 | Met with President Alexander Lukashenko.[7] This is the first foreign visit after re-election for the third presidential term. |
Germany | Berlin | June 1 | Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel.[8] |
France | Paris | June 1 | Met with President François Hollande. |
Uzbekistan | Tashkent | June 4 | Met with President Islam Karimov.[9] |
China | Beijing | June 5–7 | State visit. Attended the SCO summit. |
Kazakhstan | Astana | June 7 | Official visit. Met with President Nursultan Nazarbayev.[citation needed] |
Mexico | Los Cabos | June 18–20 | Attended the G20 summit.[10][11] |
Israel | Jerusalem | June 25 | Met with President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[12][13][14][15] |
Palestine | Bethlehem | June 26 | Met with the president of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas.[14][15] |
Jordan | Amman | June 26 | Met with King Abdullah II.[14][15] |
Ukraine | Yalta | July 12 | Met with President Viktor Yanukovych.[16] Met with President Viktor Yanukovich, in the Russo-Ukrainian Inter-state commission in Yalta. |
United Kingdom | London | August 2 | Met with UK Prime Minister David Cameron.[17] Attended the judo finals of the 2012 Summer Olympics.[18] |
Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | September 19–20 | Official visit; met with President Almazbek Atambayev. |
Tajikistan | Dushanbe | October 5 | Official visit; met with President Emomali Rahmon. |
Turkey | Istanbul | December 3 | Met with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[19][20] |
Turkmenistan | Ashgabat | December 5 | Attended the CIS summit.[21] |
Belgium | Brussels | December 20-21 | Official visit. Attended the Russia-EU summit.[22] |
India | New Delhi | December 24 | Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pranab Mukherjee. |
The following are the international trips made by Putin in 2013:
Region | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
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South Africa | Durban | March 26–27 | Attended the 5th BRICS summit. |
Germany | Hanover | April 8 | Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel. |
Netherlands | Amsterdam | April 8 | Met with Queen Beatrix and Prime Minister Mark Rutte. |
Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | May 28 | Attended the CSTO summit. |
Kazakhstan | Astana | May 29 | |
United Kingdom | London, Lough Erne | June 16–18 | Met with UK Prime Minister David Cameron; attended the G8 summit. |
Finland | Turku | June 25 | Met with President Sauli Niinistö. |
Kazakhstan | Astana | July 7 | Met with President Nursultan Nazarbayev. |
Ukraine | Kyiv, Sevastopol | July 27–28 | Met with President Viktor Yanukovych. |
Azerbaijan | Baku | August 13 | Met with President Ilham Aliyev. |
Abkhazia | Pitsunda | August 25 | Met with President Alexander Ankvab. |
Indonesia | Bali | October 7–8 | Attended the APEC summit. |
Belarus | Minsk | October 24–25 | Summit of Euro-Asian Economic Council and attended the CIS summit. |
Vietnam | Hanoi | November 12 | Official visit. Met with President Truong Tan Sang, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and General Secretary of the Communist Party Nguyễn Phú Trọng |
South Korea | Seoul | November 13 | Official visit; met with President Park Geun-hye. |
Vatican City | Vatican City | November 25 | Met with Pope Francis. |
Italy | Rome, Trieste | November 25–26 | Met with Prime Minister Enrico Letta and President Giorgio Napolitano. |
Armenia | Gyumri, Yerevan | December 2 | State visit; met with President Serzh Sargsyan. |
The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2014:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
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Belgium | Brussels | January 28 | Official visit. Attended the Russia-EU summit. |
Belarus | Minsk | April 29 | Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting. |
China | Shanghai | May 20–21 | Official visit. Met with President and Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping. Participating in Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia. |
Kazakhstan | Astana | May 29 | Meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council. |
France | Paris, Deauville, Ouistreham | June 5–6 | Met with President François Hollande. Marked the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy. |
Austria | Vienna | June 24 | Official visit. Met with President Heinz Fischer. |
Belarus | Minsk | July 2 | Met with President Alexander Lukashenko. Marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus. |
Cuba | Havana | July 11 | Official visit. Met with President and First Secretary of the Communist Party Raúl Castro. |
Nicaragua | Managua | July 12 | Met with President Daniel Ortega. |
Argentina | Buenos Aires | July 12 | Met with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. |
Brazil | Fortaleza, Brasília, Rio de Janeiro | July 13–17 | Official Visit. Met with President Dilma Rousseff. Attended the FIFA World Cup Finale. Attended the 6th BRICS summit. |
Belarus | Minsk | August 26 | Met with President Alexander Lukashenko, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, and leaders of Eurasian Customs Union. |
Mongolia | Ulaanbaatar | September 3 | Met with President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj. |
Tajikistan | Dushanbe | September 11–12 | Attended the SCO summit. |
Kazakhstan | Atyrau | September 30 | |
Belarus | Minsk | October 10 | Attended the Eurasian Economic Union Summit. |
Serbia | Belgrade | October 16 | Met with President Tomislav Nikolić and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić. Marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Belgrade. |
Italy | Milan | October 16–17 | Attended the 11th ASEM. Met with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, French president François Hollande, German chancellor Angela Merkel, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, European Council president Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission president José Manuel Barroso. |
China | Beijing | November 9–11 | Attended the APEC summit. |
Australia | Brisbane | November 14–16 | Attended the G20 summit. |
Turkey | Ankara | December 1-3 | State visit. Met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu. |
Uzbekistan | Tashkent | December 8-10 | Met with President Islam Karimov. |
India | New Delhi | December 10–12 | Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Pranab Mukherjee. |
The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2015:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
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Egypt | Cairo | February 9–10 | Official visit. Met with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. |
Belarus | Minsk | February 11–12 | Met with President Alexander Lukashenko, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, French president François Hollande and German chancellor Angela Merkel. |
Hungary | Budapest | February 17 | Met with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. |
Kazakhstan | Astana | March 19–20 | Attended the trilateral summit meeting of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. |
Armenia | Yerevan | April 24 | Marked the 100 years since the Armenian genocide. |
Italy | Milan, Rome | June 10 | Attended the Expo 2015. Met with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and President Sergio Mattarella. |
Vatican City | Vatican City | June 10 | Met with Pope Francis. |
Azerbaijan | Baku | June 12–13 | Met with President Ilham Aliyev. |
China | Beijing | September 2–3 | Met with President & Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, and Premier Li Keqiang. Marked the 70th anniversary of anti-Japanese Fascists war victory in Beijing. |
Tajikistan | Dushanbe | September 14–15 | Attended the CSTO summit. |
United States | New York City | September 28–29 | Attended the 70th Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Met with President Barack Obama. |
France | Paris | October 2 | Met with President François Hollande, German chancellor Angela Merkel, and Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko. |
Kazakhstan | Astana | October 14–16 | State visit. Attended the CIS summit. |
Turkey | Antalya | November 15–16 | Attended the G20 summit. |
Iran | Tehran | November 23 | Met with President Hassan Rouhani. |
France | Paris | November 30 | Attended the UN Climate Change Conference. |
The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2016:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
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Belarus | Minsk | February 25 | Meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus. |
Greece | Athens | May 27–28 | Met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and President Prokopis Pavlopoulos. |
Kazakhstan | Astana | May 30–31 | Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting. |
Belarus | Minsk | June 8 | Met with President Alexander Lukashenko. |
Uzbekistan | Tashkent | June 23–24 | Attended the SCO summit. |
China | Beijing | June 24–25 | Met with President & Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, and Premier Li Keqiang. |
Finland | Naantali | July 1 | Met with President Sauli Niinistö. |
Slovenia | Ljubljana | July 30 | Met with President Borut Pahor. |
Azerbaijan | Baku | August 8 | Attended trilateral summit meeting of Russia, Azerbaijan, and Iran. |
China | Hangzhou | September 3–5 | Attended the G20 summit. |
Uzbekistan | Samarkand | September 6 | He attended the funeral of the former president of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov. [citation needed] |
Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | September 17 | Attended the CIS summit. |
Kazakhstan | Astana | October 4 | Met with President of Nursultan Nazarbayev. |
Turkey | Istanbul | October 10 | Met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. |
Armenia | Yerevan | October 14 | Attended the CSTO summit. |
India | Benaulim | October 15–16 | Attended the 8th BRICS summit. |
Germany | Berlin | October 19–20 | Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel, French president François Hollande, and Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko. |
Peru | Lima | November 19–20 | Attended the APEC summit. |
Japan | Nagato, Tokyo | December 15–16 | Met with Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. |
The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2017:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
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Hungary | Budapest | February 2 | Met with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.[23] |
Kazakhstan | Almaty | February 27 | Met with President Nursultan Nazarbayev.[24] |
Tajikistan | Dushanbe | February 27–28 | Official visit. Met with President Emomali Rahmon.[25][26] |
Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | February 28 | Official visit; met with President Almazbek Atambayev.[27] |
Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | April 14 | Attended the Eurasian Economic Union summit and CSTO summit. |
China | Beijing | May 14–15 | Met with President & Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, and Premier Li Keqiang. |
France | Paris | May 29 | Met with President Emmanuel Macron. |
Kazakhstan | Astana | June 8–9 | Attended the SCO summit. |
Germany | Hamburg | July 7–8 | Attended the G20 summit. |
Finland | Savonlinna, Punkaharju | July 27 | Met with President Sauli Niinistö. |
Hungary | Budapest | August 28 | Met with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. |
China | Xiamen | September 3–5 | Attended the 9th BRICS summit. |
Turkey | Ankara | September 28 | Met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. |
Turkmenistan | Ashgabat | October 2 | Met with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.[28] |
Iran | Tehran | November 1 | Attended trilateral summit meeting of Russia, Azerbaijan, and Iran. |
Vietnam | Da Nang | November 10–11 | Attended the APEC Vietnam 2017 summit. |
Belarus | Minsk | November 30 | Attended the CSTO summit. |
Syria | Khmeimim Air Base | December 11 | Met with President Bashar al-Assad. |
Egypt | Cairo | December 11 | Met with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. |
Turkey | Ankara | December 11 | Met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. |
The following are the international trips made by Putin in 2018:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
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Turkey | Ankara | April 3–4 | Attended a trilateral summit meeting between Russia, Turkey, and Iran. |
Austria | Vienna | June 5 | Met with President Alexander Van der Bellen and Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.[29][30] This is Putin's first foreign visit since his re-election for a fourth presidential term. |
China | Beijing, Tianjin, Qingdao | June 8–10 | State visit;[31] met with President & Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, and Premier Li Keqiang and attended the SCO summit. |
Belarus | Minsk | June 19 | Meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus.[32] |
Finland | Helsinki | July 16 | Met with US president Donald Trump at a summit meeting.[33] |
South Africa | Johannesburg | July 25–27 | Attended the 10th BRICS summit. |
Kazakhstan | Aktau | August 12 | Attended a summit of Caspian leaders.[34] |
Germany | Berlin | August 18 | Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel.[35] |
Iran | Tehran | September 7 | Attended a trilateral summit meeting between Russia, Turkey, and Iran. |
Azerbaijan | Baku | September 27 | Met with President Ilham Aliyev. |
Tajikistan | Dushanbe | September 28 | Attended the CIS summit. |
India | New Delhi | October 4–5 | Met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind. |
Belarus | Mogilev | October 12 | Met with President Alexander Lukashenko. |
Uzbekistan | Tashkent | October 19 | State visit; met with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.[36][37] |
Kazakhstan | Saryagash | October 20 | Met with Nursultan Nazarbayev and Shavkat Mirziyoyev.[38] |
Turkey | Istanbul | October 27 | Met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, German chancellor Angela Merkel, and French president Emmanuel Macron. |
Kazakhstan | Astana Petropavl |
November 8–9 | Attended the CSTO summit and XV Forum of Interregional Cooperation of Russia and Kazakhstan.[39] |
France | Paris | November 11 | Marked the 100th anniversary of the Armistice with Germany that brought major hostilities of World War I to an end.[40] Later attended the opening of the first Paris Peace Forum. |
Singapore | Central Area | November 13–15 | State visit; attended the East Asia Summit.[41] |
Turkey | Istanbul | November 19 | Met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. |
Argentina | Buenos Aires | November 30 – December 2 | Attended the G20 summit. |
The following are the international trips made by Putin in 2019:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
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Serbia | Belgrade | January 17 | Official visit; met with President Aleksandar Vučić.[42] |
Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | March 28 | State visit; met with President Sooronbay Jeenbekov.[43][44] |
China | Beijing | April 25–27 | Working visit; met with President and Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping. |
Kazakhstan | Nur-Sultan | May 29–30 | Working visit.[45] |
Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | June 13–15 | Attended the SCO summit. |
Tajikistan | Dushanbe | June 15–16 | Attended the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia[46] |
Japan | Osaka | June 28–29 | Attended the G20 summit. |
Belarus | Minsk | June 30 | Attended the closing ceremony of the 2019 European Games.[47] |
Italy | Rome | July 4 | Official visit.[48] Met with President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. |
Vatican | Vatican City | July 4 | Official visit.[49] Met with Pope Francis. |
France | Fort de Brégançon, Bormes-les-Mimosas | August 19 | Working visit.[50] Met with President Emmanuel Macron. |
Finland | Helsinki | August 21 | Working visit.[51] |
Mongolia | Ulaanbaatar | September 3 | Official visit.[52] Attended the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Khalkhin Gol. |
Turkey | Ankara | September 16 | Working visit. Attended a trilateral summit meeting of Russia, Turkey, and Iran. |
France | Paris | September 30 | Jacques Chirac's funeral. |
Armenia | Yerevan | October 1 | Working visit.[53] |
Turkmenistan | Ashgabat | October 10–11 | Working visit. Attended the CIS summit. |
Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | October 14 | State visit.[54] |
United Arab Emirates | Abu Dhabi | October 15 | State visit. |
Hungary | Budapest | October 30 | Working visit. |
Brazil | Brasília | November 13–14 | Attended the 11th BRICS summit. |
Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | November 28 | Attended the CSTO summit. |
France | Paris | December 9 | Met with President Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. |
The following are the international trips made by Putin in 2020:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
---|---|---|---|
Syria | Damascus | January 7 | Met with President Bashar al-Assad. |
Turkey | Istanbul | January 8 | Met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. |
Germany | Berlin | January 19 | Working visit. Attended a meeting on the Libyan Civil War and held a meeting with British prime minister Boris Johnson. |
Israel | Jerusalem | January 23 | Putin travelled to Jerusalem for the World Holocaust Forum to commemorate the 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Putin also met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
Palestine | Bethlehem | January 23 | Putin travelled to Bethlehem to discuss Palestine-Russia relations and other issues in the Middle East. |
The following are the international trips made by Putin in 2021:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
---|---|---|---|
Switzerland | Geneva | June 16 | Met with US president Joe Biden at a summit meeting.[55] |
India | New Delhi | December 6 | Met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. |
The following are the international trips made by Putin in 2022:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
---|---|---|---|
China | Beijing | February 4–5 | Met with President and Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping. Attended the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics. |
Tajikistan | Dushanbe | June 28 | Met with President Emomali Rahmon.[56] |
Turkmenistan | Ashgabat | June 29 | Attended the Caspian Summit.[57] |
Iran | Tehran | July 19 | Met with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and held a summit meeting with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[58] |
Uzbekistan | Samarkand | September 15–16 | Attended the 2022 SCO summit. |
Kazakhstan | Astana | October 13–15 | Attended CICA and C.I.S Summit |
Armenia | Yerevan | November 22–23 | Attended a summit meeting of the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) military alliance[59] |
Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | December 9 | Working visit. |
Belarus | Minsk | December 19 | Working visit. |
The following are the international trips made by Putin in 2023:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
---|---|---|---|
Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | October 12–14 | Working visit. Attended the CIS Summit. Met with Sadyr Japarov and Ilham Aliyev. |
China | Beijing | October 17–18 | Working visit. Attended the Third Belt and Road Forum. Met with several world leaders, including Viktor Orbán, Võ Văn Thưởng, Thongloun Sisoulith, Xi Jinping, Srettha Thavisin, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, and Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh. |
Kazakhstan | Astana | November 9–10 | Working visit. |
Belarus | Minsk | November 23–24 | Working visit. Attended the Collective Security Treaty Organization summit in Minsk. |
United Arab Emirates | Abu Dhabi | December 6 | Working visit. |
Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | December 6 | Working visit. |
The following are the international trips made by Putin in 2024:
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
---|---|---|---|
China | Beijing, Harbin | May 16–17 | Met with President and Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping in Beijing. Visited Harbin, which has strong ties to Russia, for a trade and investment exposition.[60] |
Belarus | Minsk | May 23–24 | Met with President Alexander Lukashenko.[61] |
Uzbekistan | Tashkent | May 26–27 | Met with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.[62] |
North Korea | Pyongyang | June 18–19 | State visit. Met with Supreme Leader and Workers' Party General Secretary Kim Jong Un.[63] See 2024 North Korea–Russia summit. |
Vietnam | Hanoi | June 19–20 | State visit. Met with Communist Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng, President Tô Lâm, Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính and Chairman of the National Assembly Trần Thanh Mẫn. |
Kazakhstan | Astana | July 3–4 | Attended the 2024 SCO summit.[64] |
Azerbaijan | Baku | August 18–19 | Met with President Ilham Aliyev.[65] |
Mongolia | Ulaanbaatar | September 2–3 | Met with Foreign Minister Battsetseg Batmunkh and President Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh.[66] |
Turkmenistan | Asgabat | October 11 | Attending "Interconnection of Times and Civilizations - Basis of Peace and Development" international forum dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the birth of Turkmen poet and thinker Makhtumkuli Fraghi.[67] |
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