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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...
Belousov, an economist, was a surprise pick, underscoring how Russia is shifting its economy on to a war footing as it launches a new offensive in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region. Shoigu, who served...
May 13, 2024 at 2:40 AM. Turar Kazangapov/Reuters. Russian President Vladimir Putin has replaced his defense minister and a long-time close ally Sergei Shoigu with an economist, a major...
Andrey Removich Belousov ( Russian: Андре́й Рэ́мович Белоу́сов, Russian pronunciation: [ɐnˈdrʲej ˈrɛməvʲɪd͡ʑ bʲɪɫɐˈusəf]; born 17 March 1959) is a Russian economist and statesman, serving as the Minister of Defence since May 2024. [1] From January 2020 to May 2024, he served as First Deputy Prime Minister ...
According to economist Sergey Guriev, Russian economy after 2022 has practically split into two parallel ones: the military economy, that runs on orders placed by the government with the military industries and payments to soldiers, which has observed growth; and the civilian sector that heavily suffers from high inflation, price increases ...
Putin's annual press conference returns and Draymond Green suspended: Morning Rundownaol.com
He led the Wagner Group private military company and was a close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin until launching a rebellion in June 2023. Prigozhin was sometimes referred to as "Putin's chef" because he owned restaurants and catering businesses that provided services to the Kremlin.
The appointment suggests that Putin wants not only to boost the military-industrial complex in a technological arms race against Ukraine and the West, but also to harness the wider economy...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a surprise new defence minister, nominating civilian Andrei Belousov, a former deputy prime minister who specialises in...
Andrey Nikolayevich Illarionov (Russian: Андре́й Никола́евич Илларио́нов, born 16 September 1961) is a Russian economist and former senior policy advisor to Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, from April 2000 to December 2005.
Observers of the Kremlin said Monday that the decision to remove him — and replace him with a civilian economist — could betray Putin’s frustration with how the war has gone and his ...