Putin dismisses pal Sergei Shoigu and replaces him with economist as protection minister
Sergei Shoigu, minister of protection from 2012 to 2024, and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in Kubinka, Moscow area, September 19, 2018. ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/AFP/VIA AGENCE SPUTNIK Russian protection minister for the previous 12 years, Sergei Shoigu has not survived the turmoil created by two years of large-scale conflict in opposition to Ukraine. An in depth … Read more