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Shoigu maintained his post for 12 years and is being retained as secretary of the Security Council, replacing longtime Putin ally Nikolai Patrushev. Analysts believed the writing was on the wall for Shoigu when his deputyBelousov is the son of a prominent Soviet economist and has previously served as minister of economic development, economic adviser to Putin, and most recently first deputy prime minister.
Andrei Belousov, appointed as his successor on Sunday, is cut from a different cloth. A Soviet-trained economist, Belousov has never served a day in the army and has served Putin, Russia’s president, in various roles as a civilian adviser on economics. Putin’s surprise tapping of Belousov to run the defence ministry indicates Putin wants a major shift in the handling...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 old minister taking up a policy and advisory role, the technocrats are in the ascendant. The goal though is not peace, but a more efficient war.
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