Person
President and former prime minister of the Russian Federation. The assessment covers domestic rule, economic outcomes, political repression, the wars against Georgia and Ukraine, occupation, civilian harm and command responsibility.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Current published result
Economic recovery in the earlier period is overwhelmingly outweighed by sustained authoritarianism, aggressive war, systematic violations and command responsibility for mass harm. Verified severe violations impose a lower final-score limit.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
The assessment records substantial economic recovery, income growth and poverty reduction during parts of the early Putin period. These outcomes are given limited positive weight and are not treated as cancelling later aggression, repression or mass harm.
The dominant evidence concerns authoritarian consolidation, suppression of opposition, aggressive war against Ukraine, mass civilian harm, torture, occupation and the unlawful transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children.
Read the full Vladimir Putin ethical assessment, evidence and sources
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
2000–2026 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile