Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Lokacin da aka nada shi, Putin dan siyasa ne da ba a san shi ba, amma da sauri ya kafa kansa a cikin ra'ayin jama'a da kuma kimanta Yeltsin a matsayin shugaban gwamnati mai amincewa, galibi saboda Yaƙin Chechen na biyu. Kwanaki kadan bayan Yeltsin ya ambaci Putin a matsayin dan takarar firaminista, sojojin Chechen sun yi karo da sojojin Rasha a Dagestan, wani yanki mai cin gashin kansa na Rasha kusa da Chechnya. A watan da ya biyo baya, mutane da yawa sun mutu a hare-haren bam da aka yi a gine-ginen gidaje
a Moscow da sauran biranen, hare-haren bam da hukumomin Rasha suka danganta ga 'yan tawayen Chechen. A sakamakon haka, sojojin Rasha sun shiga Chechnya a karshen watan Satumbar 1999, wanda ya fara yakin Chechen na biyu. Jama'ar Rasha a lokacin, da suka fusata da hare-haren ta'addanci, sun goyi bayan yakin. Tallafin ya fassara zuwa karuwar shahara ga Putin, wanda ya dauki mataki mai mahimmanci a Chechnya.