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Speech act shows speaker's psychological attitude to the real world which he contacts with in everyday life. The use of time or grammatical tense in this language act depends on speaker's purpose and intention comprising of his consciousness as well as unconsciousness, because discursive text has by nature the dialogue aspects in its all sentences which presupposes an audience in intralingual process. This paper studied Putin’s last three presidential inauguration speeches through the speech act analysis of sentences which would conduct to reveal speaker's time use patterns. As result, Putin's speeches used the past tense for the majority of representatives sentences, the present tense for the directives and the commissives. The expressive sentences composed exclusively of present tenses. These results show that, as act speaker, Putin is a speaker who 1), honest, do not make an excuse for the representative facts 2), straight talker, do not tell something in indirect or coded way on directive and the commissive acts 3), man of sincerity, do not impose something upon people or the another but takes responsibility for his speeches.