| PUTIN | Vladimir ---, Russian President (5) |
| LENIN | Vladimir, Russian statesman who died in 1924 (5) |
| BORIS | Mr. Yeltsin, Russian president from 1991-99 (5) |
| DACHA | Novo-Ogaryovo is the official one of the Russian president |
| LTCOL | Rank (abbreviated) the Russian president reached before resigning from the KGB (2,3) |
| TATLIN | Vladimir, Russian artist and founder of Constructivism (6) |
| NABOKOV | Vladimir ....... , Russian author whose works include Lolita (7) |
| ASHKENAZY | Vladimir, Russian pianist who was musical director of the RPO, 1987-95 (9) |
| RASPUTIN | Russian holy man heading for Romania, like the Russian president |
| YELTSIN | Later a Russian president, who lost a finger and thumb hitting a stolen hand grenade with a hammer? (5,7) |
| PETROV | Russian president on "House of Cards" |
| LEONID | - Brezhnev, Russian president |
| VLADIMIR | ___ Putin, Russian president (8) |
| PUTININPUT | Ideas offered by a Russian president? |
| MEDVEDEV | Dmitry __, Russian president 2008-2012 (8) |
| NYET | Russian president's veto |
| PUTINTHEPICTURE | Brief article has image of Russian President around it |
| KEEPITUP | Don't stop Russian president scratching bottom, look the other way! (4,2,2) |
| GORBACHEV | Mikhail, Russian president awarded the 1990 Nobel peace prize (9) |
| MARS | Obsession of Elon Musk praised by Russian President Putin, comparing him to a Soviet space pioneer. (4) |
