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May 12, 2024 at 5:31 PM. By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn. MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin tapped a civilian economist as his surprise new defence minister on Sunday in an ...
From 2008-2012, he was director of the department for economics and finance in the government apparatus, the same years Putin served as prime minister. * In 2012, he was made economics minister.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Monday appointed former deputy economy minister Oleg Savelyev as a deputy defence minister, according to a published decree, in a further sign of his ...
The Warsaw Pact ( WP ), [d] formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance ( TFCMA ), [e] was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War. The term "Warsaw Pact" commonly refers ...
In Russia, Putin's close adviser Nikolai Patrushev was a leading figure in updating the country's national security strategy, published in May 2021. It states that Russia may use "forceful methods" to "thwart or avert unfriendly actions that threaten the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation."
In the early 2000s, significant political changes took place in Russia with Vladimir Putin's rise to power. Putin, who previously held key positions in the security forces and government, became the successor to President Boris Yeltsin . After serving as the head of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation and as Secretary of the ...
The Coming Russian Escalation With the West. George Beebe. July 1, 2024 at 12:12 PM. A Russian flag flies next to the U.S. embassy building in Moscow on November 30, 2023, on a snowy day. Credit ...
Fifth inauguration ofVladimir Putin. The fifth inauguration of Vladimir Putin as President of Russia took place on Tuesday, 7 May 2024, after being declared the winner of the 2024 Russian presidential election. Some nations declined to participate in the inauguration ceremony due to reports of electoral fraud and the ongoing Russian invasion of ...