What Lies Behind Putin's Bombshell Defense Reshuffle?

par This Is Beirut, 13/05 21:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Putin's Sunday defense shake-up, which saw the ouster of long-serving defense minister Sergei Shoigu, appears designed to facilitate Russia's transition to a war economy. Vladimir Putin's nomination of top economic official Andrei Belousov as defense minister is a sign of the importance the Russian leader places on the war economy in what he ...