Acting President Putin in a Su-27 flight helmet on arrival in Grozny (Chechnya, 20 March 2000)
Close photograph of Vladimir Putin in a blue flight helmet with a Russian tricolour patch and an oxygen mask, adjusting the helmet with a gloved hand inside a fighter cockpit. The tell is the head of state shown in a combat aircraft's equipment, which ties the acting president personally to military force and the war effort.
Propaganda techniques used in this photograph
- Date
- March 20, 2000
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Presidential Press and Information Office (kremlin.ru)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Russia
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Putin Government
- Leader
- Vladimir Putin
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Second Chechen War
- Leader
- Vladimir Putin
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Presidential Press and Information Office, kremlin.ru), retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0 (kremlin.ru, via Commons)
Presidential Press and Information Office (kremlin.ru), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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