Russian President Vladimir Putin Worked As A Taxi Driver To Earn Extra Money After The Fall Of USSR In 1991

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he worked as a taxi driver to earn extra money after the fall of USSR in 1991.

The 69 year old, said by critics to be now worth $200 billion, previously worked for as KGB agent in East Germany.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has revealed he once worked as a taxi driver to earn money following the fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) in 1991.

In a documentary aired on Sunday, the Russian president admitted he took the driving job to earn money as he was financially struggling.

The RIA state news agency reported Mr Putin as saying :

“Sometimes I had to earn extra money… by car, as a private driver. It’s unpleasant to talk about to be honest, but unfortunately that was the case,”

The programme, Russia: Latest History, also revealed Mr Putin’s continuing upset at the disintegration of the USSR.

“After all, what is the collapse of the Soviet Union? This is the collapse of historical Russia under the name of the Soviet Union”.

Putin gave no further details about where and when he drove the taxi, but the Russian leader had returned to his native St Petersburg at the time of the USSR’s collapse.

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The 69 year old Russian leader, said by critics to be now worth $200 billion, previously worked for as Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti’s (KGB) agent in East Germany.

Putin’s comments comes amid growing tensions between Russia and Ukraine, with international observers fearing that Russia may attempt to invade its ex-Soviet neighbour.

But the Kremlin had denied any plans to invade, though warned it will not accept the West’s influence extending to Ukraine.

Before its collapse in 1991, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) spanned 15 republics with Russia at its political centre from the 1920s.

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