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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 ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has replaced his defense minister and close ally Sergei Shoigu with a civilian economist, a major reshuffle of military leadership more than two-years after Moscow ...
Andrei Belousov is a former deputy prime minister and adviser to Putin who specialises in economics. He was nominated as defence minister in 2024, amid the Ukraine war, after serving as first ...
Andrey Illarionov is a Russian economist and former senior policy adviser to Vladimir Putin. He is a critic of Putin's regime and a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C.
The Presidential Security Service (SBP) (Russian: Служба безопасности президента России) is a federal government agency concerned with the tasks related to the protection of the President of Russia and the Prime Minister of Russia with their respective families and residences.
Yevgeny Prigozhin was a leader of the Wagner Group, a private military company, and a close ally of Vladimir Putin until he launched a rebellion in 2023. He was killed in a plane crash in August 2023, after facing sanctions and charges in the US and the EU for his role in Ukraine and US elections.
Sergei Shoigu, the outgoing defence minister and a longstanding Putin ally, will become secretary of the Security Council, a senior job that will keep him close to Putin but arguably wields less ...
On October 22, 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on special economic measures in relation to Ukraine's unfriendly actions against Russian individuals and entities. On August 21, 2021, Russia expanded its economic sanctions on Ukrainian individuals and included Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and National Security and Defense ...