US EditionRussian defence minister and long-time Putin ally Sergei Shoigu to be replaced
- Surprise appointment: Putin names civilian Andrei Belousov as new defense minister, replacing Sergei Shoigu for the role, who is to head Russia's powerful Security Council.
- Shoigu, defense minister since 2012, will shift to the Security Council's secretary role and oversee the military-industrial complex.
- Outgoing defense minister Patrushev will be repositioned to a new, undisclosed role.
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Putin replaces defense minister Shoigu in major shakeup
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposes a civilian economist to replace Sergei Shoigu as defense minister as the country is trying to better utilize defense spending and harness greater innovation to win the war in Ukraine.
What the Shoigu reshuffle means for Putin’s war machine
There was an expectation that the appointment of Vladimir Putin’s new government would see some change in the Russian security apparatus, but few predicted that Russia’s defence minister Sergei Shoigu would be replaced by an economist, Andrey Belousov, with Shoigu becoming secretary of the Security Council. With an economist taking over the defence ministry, and the
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The President of Russia, proposed by Vladimir Putin for the post of Russian Minister of Defense, needs Andrey Belousov to strictly control increased military spending. The Washington Post (WP) explained the change of the Minister of Defense. “This choice signaled Putin's desire to get a head of the Ministry of Defense who would establish tight control over the huge increase in military spending,” the newspaper says. Earlier, Time magazine found …
On Sunday 12 May, the Russian president dismissed his powerful minister who had been in office since 2012, appointing a civilian, Andreï Belousov, in his place in order to “open the army to innovation”.
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