Songs about Vladimir Putin may be placed into two distinct categories. Some of them praise various aspects of his personality, varying from viewing him as sex symbol to praising him as a strong leader. Others criticize Putin and protest against his rule.
Songs of praising type started appearing as soon as Vladimir Putin took the office. An early notable example is the song Takogo, kak Putin! ("[I want] The One Like Putin") by the girl band Singing Together. It topped the Russian Music Charts in 2002.
In 2017 a jingoistic song Uncle Vova, we are with you gained a notoriety when a video was popularized in which , then assistant to a State Duma deputy, performed this song with the schoolchildren in military-style uniforms of the cadet class of Volgograd school no. 44