The Russian President Vladimir Putin has sacked his long term
aid Sergey Shy Goo as the country's defense minister and
will replace him with an economist.
Andre Bella saw. Sergei Shagu has been appointed as the
secretary of Russian Security Council instead,
as per the Kremlin. He is also set to become
Putins deputy in the Russian Military Industrial Commission.
So what has led to the shake up?
The former defense minister has long been Putin's go to
man but has had his share of controversies.
The Russian President and Troy will go back a long
way.
In 2019, before Putin went into COVID isolation,
he was on a vacation with the defense minister.
Now again in September 2021,
Putin joined Sergey on a hunting and fishing trip in
the Siberian forest.
You know.
But it isn't as if Shai Gu has been above
controversy completely.
Sergey Shagu, once squarely squeaky clean image,
had come under a shallow in 2012,
with revelations by the opposition leader Alexei Navalny accusing him
of hiding a 9000 square meter $18 million mansion that
he registered in the name of his family members,
Chagos declared family income for 20/10/12,
incidentally, was just $2.66 million.
Now Sergi Saigus deputy Timor Ivanov was also arrested last
month on bribery charges.
Evanov was ordered to remain in custody pending an official
probe.
The rest were widely interpreted as an attack on Shigo
and a possible precursor to his dismissal despite his close
personal ties with Putin.
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