Cyrillic

 Finally decided to bite the bullet on Cyrillic Script and Russian

naming conventions. The Cyrillic  dates from the 9th century,

and was adapted from earlier work by St-Cyril and named in his honor.

Easy enough to use by a Westerner when one has access to a translator version.

So Vladimir should look like the following:

Sure enough, Vladimir in Russian looks like the above spelling, here from Wikipedia.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (/ˈpuːtɪn/; Russian: Владимир Владимирович Путин; 

So what is the middle name Vladimirovich: the 'ovich' suffix means 'son of'. President Putin's

father was called Vladimir as well.

Putin was born on 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia),^[22][23] the youngest of three children of Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin (1911–1999) and Maria Ivanovna Putina (née Shelomova; 1911–1998). 

Thus, his grandfather was named Spiridon. His maternal grandfather was called 

Ivan. His mother took on the name of her husband, and the 'a' suffix indicates 

she is a woman.