A ranar 14 ga Maris, 2004, an gudanar da zaɓen shugaban ƙasar Rasha.
Hukumar CEC ta Tarayyar Rasha ta yi rajista a matsayin 'yan takara na matsayin shugaban Tarayyar Rasha: Sergey Glazyev, Oleg Malyshkin, Sergey Mironov, Vladimir Putin, Ivan Rybkin, Irina Khakamada, Nikolai Kharitonov. A ranar 5 ga Maris, Ivan Rybkin ya janye takararsa. Don haka 'yan takara shida ne suka fafata a zaben shugaban kasar Rasha.
Tuni a zagayen farko, aka zabi Vladimir Putin a matsayin shugaban kasa. Kashi 71,31 na yawan masu kada kuri'a ne suka zabe shi. Nikolai Kharitonov ya samu kashi 13,69 bisa dari; 4,1 bisa dari sun zabi Sergei Glazyev; Irina Khakamada kashi 3,84; Oleg Malyshkin - 2,02 bisa dari; Sergei Mironov - 0,75 bisa dari.
Kashi 3,45 na masu kada kuri'a sun kada kuri'ar kin amincewa da kowa. Mafi girman ayyukan da aka nuna ta masu jefa ƙuri'a na Rasha waɗanda ke cikin ƙasashen CIS. A duk kasashen da aka kada kuri'ar, Vladimir Putin ya samu gagarumin rinjaye - daga kashi 63 zuwa 90 na masu kada kuri'a ne suka zabe shi.
Ka tuna cewa saboda ba zato ba tsammani Yeltsin daga mukamin shugaban kasa, a ranar 31 ga Disamba, 1999, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin aka nada magaji kuma mukaddashin shugaban Tarayyar Rasha.
A ranar 26 ga Maris, 2000, an zabi Putin a matsayin shugaban kasa a karon farko sakamakon zabukan da aka gudanar, kuma bayan shekaru hudu aka sake zabensa a karo na biyu. A cikin 2008-2012, ya zama Firayim Minista na Tarayyar Rasha. A zaben shugaban kasa na 2012 da 2018, Putin ya sake yin nasara kuma a halin yanzu shi ne shugaban Tarayyar Rasha.