After nearly 12 years as Russia’s defence minister, General Sergei Shoigu has been appointed to a new role as head of the country’s security council in an unexpected shake-up of the Kremlin ...
Lt. Gen. Vadim Shamarin is accused of “large-scale” bribery, the latest in a series of high-profile arrests that have coincided with the appointment of a new defense minister. By Anton ...
PARIS: President Vladimir Putin’s nomination of top economic official Andrei Belousov as defence minister is a sign of the importance the Russian leader places on the war economy in gaining the ...
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 ...
Mr. Putin shifted Sergei Shoigu to run the security council, and nominated an economist to run the defense ministry. By Paul Sonne and Anton Troianovski Reporting from Berlin President Vladimir V.
President Vladimir Putin says that he sees no current threat to Russia’s sovereignty that would warrant the use of nuclear weapons but has again warned Moscow could send weapons to states or others to ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s post-inauguration Cabinet reshuffle and military purge has raised speculation that he’s looking to consolidate power as he prepares for a much longer war in ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets.
President Vladimir Putin says that the Russian economy is growing despite heavy international sanctions and the country has ...
I'm Steve Gutterman, the editor of RFE/RL's Russia/Ukraine/Belarus Desk. Welcome to The Week In Russia, in which I dissect the key developments in Russian politics and society over the previous ...
One of the key decisions Vladimir Putin took after being sworn in as Russia’s President for the fifth time was to remove his long-time Minister of Defence, Sergei Shoigu. That Andrei Belousov, a ...