Putin to replace his defence minister in surprise reshuffle - The announcement comes amid Russia’s renewed armoured push ...
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the dead former chief of the Wagner mercenaries, has had the main aim of his attempted coup fulfilled from ...
President Putin has removed his long-serving defence minister Sergei Shoigu in a reshuffle, following intense speculation that the latter’s post was under threat. Shoigu, 68, will be moved to ...
The move is being seen as an effort to reduce the soaring costs of the war in Ukraine. It also challenges the narrative that ...
Vladimir Putin was accused last night of putting another “puppet” in as defence minister as he moved to appoint an economist ...
Vladimir Putin replaced his long-serving defense minister with a trained economist in an unexpected change of guard that signals the focus on growing the Russian war economy more than two years ...
Putin proposes civilian Belousov as defence minister Incumbent Shoigu, a long-term ally, to take up new job Change seen bringing more economic rigour Lavrov to stay as foreign minister MOSCOW, May ...
Over the weekend, President Vladimir Putin replaced Shoigu — the 68-year-old was the longest serving member of his Cabinet — ...
Sergey Shoigu, a key figure in Putin's orbit, served as defense minister for 12 years and has been often painted as one of ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin tapped a civilian economist as his surprise new defence minister on Sunday in an attempt to gird Russia for economic war by trying to better ...
Sergei Shoigu has been replaced as defence minister by technocrat economist Andrei Belousov. Mr Shoigu hasn’t been made ...
By moving defence minister Sergei Shoigu and promoting key allies, Russia’s leader is shoring up the military-industrial ...