List of international presidential trips made by Vladimir Putin

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 50 countries as of March 2008, in addition to many more trips made domestically.

World map highlighting countries visited by Vladimir Putin during his presidency, as of February 2021.
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  Seven or more visits
  Fourteen or more visits
  Russia including the disputed Crimean Peninsula
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Acting presidency (December 31, 1999–May 6, 2000)
Country Areas visited Date(s) Details
 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.

First presidency (2000–2008)

2000
Vladimir Putin meets with US President Bill Clinton in New York City, United States, September 2000

The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2000:

Country Areas visited Date(s) Details
 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 Jiang Zemin.
 North Korea Pyongyang July 19–20 Met with Chairman Kim Jong-il.
 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 Fidel Castro
 Canada Ottawa, Toronto December 18–19 Official Visit. Met with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Governor General Adrienne Clarkson.

2001
Vladimir Putin meets with US President George W. Bush at the G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, July 2001

The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2001:

Country Areas visited Date(s) Details
 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 of Vietnam 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.[1]
 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 UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

2002

The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2002:

Country Areas visited Date(s) Details
 France Paris January 15 Met with President Jacques Chirac.
 Poland Warsaw, Poznań January 16–17 Official visit.[2] Met with Prime Minister Leszek Miller and President Aleksander Kwaśniewski.
 Kazakhstan Almaty February 28 – March 2 Attended the CIS summit.
 Ukraine Odessa 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.
 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.

2003

The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2003:

Country Areas visited Date(s) Details
 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 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
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.

2004

The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2004:

Country Areas visited Date(s) Details
 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 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 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 Schleswig-Holstein December 20–21 Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

2005

The following are the international trips made by Putin in 2005:

Country Areas visited Date(s) Details
 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.
 Israel 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
 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.

2006

The following are the international trips made by Putin in 2006:

Country Areas visited Date(s) Details
 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 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 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.

2007

The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2007:

Country Areas visited Date(s) Details
 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[3][4] 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[5] 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

2008

The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2008:

Country Areas visited Date(s) Details
 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 Sardinia April 17–18

Second presidency (2012–present)

2012

The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2012:

Country Areas visited Date(s) Details
 Belarus Minsk May 31 – June 1 Met with President Alexander Lukashenko.[6] This is the first foreign visit after re-election for the third presidential term.
 Germany Berlin June 1 Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel.[7]
 France Paris June 1 Met with President François Hollande.
 Uzbekistan Tashkent June 4 Met with President Islam Karimov.[8]
 China Beijing June 5–7 State visit. Attended the SCO summit.
 Kazakhstan Astana June 7 Official visit. Met with President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
 Mexico Los Cabos June 18–20 Attended the G20 summit.[9][10]
 Israel Jerusalem June 25 Met with President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[11][12][13][14]
 Palestine Bethlehem June 26 Met with the President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas.[13][14]
 Jordan June 26 Met with King Abdullah II.[13][14]
 Ukraine Yalta July 12 Met with President Viktor Yanukovych.[15] 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.[16] Attended the 2012 Summer Olympics.[17]
 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.[18][19]
 Turkmenistan Ashgabat December 5 Attended the CIS summit.[20]
 India New Delhi December 24 Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pranab Mukherjee.

2013

The following are the international trips made by Putin in 2013:

Region Areas visited Date(s) Details
 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 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 of Vietnam 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.

2014

The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2014:

Country Areas visited Date(s) Details
 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 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 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 State visit. Met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu.
 Uzbekistan Tashkent December 10 Met with President Islam Karimov.
 India New Delhi December 10–11 Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Pranab Mukherjee.

2015
Vladimir Putin meets with US President Barack Obama in New York City, United States, September 2015

The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2015:

Country Areas visited Date(s) Details
 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.[21]
  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 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.

2016

The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2016:

Country Areas visited Date(s) Details
 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 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.
 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.

2017
Vladimir Putin meets with US President Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 2017

The following are the international trips made by President Putin in 2017:

Country Areas visited Date(s) Details
 Hungary Budapest February 2 Met with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.[22]
 Kazakhstan Almaty February 27 Met with President Nursultan Nazarbayev.[23]
 Tajikistan Dushanbe February 27–28 Official visit. Met with President Emomali Rahmon.[24][25]
 Kyrgyzstan Bishkek February 28 Official visit; met with President Almazbek Atambayev.[26]
 Kyrgyzstan Bishkek April 14 Attended the Eurasian Economic Union summit and CSTO summit.
 China Beijing May 14–15 Met with President 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.[27]
 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.

2018
Vladimir Putin meets with US President Donald Trump at the 2018 Russia–United States summit in Helsinki, Finland, July 2018

The following are the international trips made by Putin in 2018:

Country Areas visited Date(s) Details
 Turkey Ankara April 3–4 Attended trilateral summit meeting of Russia, Turkey, and Iran.
 Austria Vienna June 5 Met with President Alexander Van der Bellen and Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.[28][29] This is the first foreign visit after re-election for the fourth presidential term.
 China Beijing, Tianjin, Qingdao June 8–10 State visit;[30] met with President 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.[31]
 Finland Helsinki July 16 Attended the summit meeting with US President Donald Trump.
 South Africa Johannesburg July 25–27 Attended the 10th BRICS summit.
 Kazakhstan Aktau August 12 Attended a summit of Caspian leaders.[32]
 Germany Berlin August 18 Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel.[33]
 Iran Tehran September 7 Attended trilateral summit meeting of 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.[34][35]
 Kazakhstan Saryagash October 20 Met with Nursultan Nazarbayev and Shavkat Mirziyoyev.[36]
 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.[37]
 France Paris November 11 Marked the 100 anniversary of the Armistice with Germany that brought major hostilities of World War I to an end.[38]
 Singapore Central Area November 13–15 State visit; attended the East Asia Summit.[39]
 Turkey Istanbul November 19 Met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
 Argentina Buenos Aires November 30 – December 2 Attended the G20 summit.

2019
Vladimir Putin meets with US President Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 2019

The following are the international trips made by Putin in 2019:

Country Areas visited Date(s) Details
 Serbia Belgrade January 17 Official visit; met with President Aleksandar Vučić.[40]
 Kyrgyzstan Bishkek March 28 State visit; met with President Sooronbay Jeenbekov.[41][42]
 China Beijing April 25–27 Working visit; met with President Xi Jinping.
 Kazakhstan Nur-Sultan May 29–30 Working visit.[43]
 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[44]
 Japan Osaka June 28–29 Attended the G20 summit.
 Belarus Minsk June 30 Attended the closing ceremony of the 2019 European Games.[45]
 Italy Rome July 4 Official visit.[46] Met with President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.
  Vatican Vatican City July 4 Official visit.[47] Met with Pope Francis.
 France Fort de Brégançon, Bormes-les-Mimosas August 19 Working visit.[48] Met with President Emmanuel Macron.
 Finland Helsinki August 21 Working visit.[49]
 Mongolia Ulaanbaatar September 3 Official visit.[50] 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.[51]
 Turkmenistan Ashgabat October 10–11 Working visit. Attended the CIS summit.
 Saudi Arabia Riyadh October 14 State visit.[52]
 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 Zelensky.

2020

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.
 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.


Multilateral meetings

Vladimir Putin is scheduled to attend the following summits as Russian president.

GroupYear
20142015201620172018201920202021
Union State3 March,
Moscow		25 February,
Minsk		30 June,
Moscow		19 June,
Minsk		TBD,
TBD
CSTO24 December,
Moscow		15 September,
Dushanbe		14 October,
Yerevan		30 November,
Minsk		8 November,
Astana		28 November,
Bishkek		2 December,
(videoconference)
 Russia, host		TBD,
EAEU10 October,
Minsk		8 May,
21 December,
Moscow
16 October,
Burabai		31 May,
Astana
26 December,
Saint Petersburg		14 April,
Bishkek
11 October,
Sochi		14 May,
Sochi
6 December,
Saint Petersburg		29 May,
Nur-Sultan
1 October,
Yerevan
20 December,
Saint Petersburg		14 April,
(videoconference),
19 May,
(videoconference),
11 December,
(videoconference)
 Belarus, host		TBD,
CIS10 October,
Minsk		16 October,
Burabai		16 September,
Bishkek		11 October,
Sochi		28 September,
Dushanbe		11 October,
Ashgabat		18 December,
(videoconference)
 Uzbekistan, host		TBD,
SCO11-12 September,
Dushanbe		9–10 July,
Ufa		23–24 June,
Tashkent		7-10 June,
Astana		9–10 June,
Qingdao		14–15 June,
Bishkek		10 November,
(videoconference)
 Russia, host		TBD,
Dushanbe
APEC10-11 November,
Beijing		18–19 November,[a]
Manila		19-20 November,
Lima		10-11 November,
Đà Nẵng		17-18 November,[a]
Port Moresby		16-17 November,
(cancelled)
Santiago		20 November,
(videoconference)
 Malaysia, host		November,
Auckland
EAS
(ASEAN)		12-13 November,[a]
Nay Pyi Taw		21-22 November,[a]
Kuala Lumpur		6-8 September,[a]
Vientiane		13-14 November,[a]
Pasay		14-15 November,
Central Area		4 November,[a]
Bangkok		14 November
(videoconference)
 Vietnam, host		November,
Bandar Seri Begawan
BRICS14-16 July,
Fortaleza		8-9 July,
Ufa		15-16 October,
Benaulim		3-5 September,
Xiamen		25-27 July,
Johannesburg		13-14 November,
Brasília		17 November,
(videoconference)
 Russia, host		TBD,
G2015-16 November,
Brisbane		15-16 November,
Antalya		4-5 September,
Hangzhou		7-8 July,
Hamburg		30 November – 1 December,
Buenos Aires		28-29 June,
Osaka		26 March,
(videoconference),
21-22 November,
(videoconference)
 Saudi Arabia, host		30-31 October,
Rome
UN GA27-28 September,[b]
New York City		28–29 September,
New York City		20-24 September,[b]
New York City		18-22 September,[b]
New York City		25 September – 1 October,[b]
New York City		24-29 September,[b]
New York City		22 September,
(virtual)
New York City		September,
New York City
OthersUN Climate Change
30 November,
Paris		Russia-ASEAN Summit
19-20 May,
Sochi		3rd Russia-ASEAN Summit
14 November,
Central Area		5th Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia
15 June,
Dushanbe;
1st Russia-Africa Summit,
24 October
Sochi
██ = Future event ██ = Did not attend
^a Dmitry Medvedev attended in the President's place. ^b Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov attended in the President's place.

See also

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