May 12, 2024
Putin shakes up Russian military and security commands
![](https://www.defensepriorities.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Vladimir_Putin_2022-09-08_2-1440x690.jpg)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a new defense minister, nominating civilian Andrei Belousov, a former deputy prime minister who specializes in economics, for the job more than two years into the Ukraine war. Putin wants Sergei Shoigu, defense minister since 2012 and a long-standing ally, to become the secretary of Russia’s Security Council replacing incumbent Nikolai Patrushev. We talk to Rajan Menon, director of the Grand Strategy program at Defense Priorities and Sergey Sanovich is a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Read article on Voice of America
Featuring
Rajan
Menon
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
More on Ukraine
June 21, 2024
June 21, 2024
By Matthew Mai
June 18, 2024
June 18, 2024
By Daniel Davis
June 14, 2024