To be sure government spending reaches the battlefield in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin is suddenly putting high priority ...

Belousov is considered less corrupt than his predecessor, Sergei Shoigu, although he owns real estate beyond what his ...

Andrei Belousov, Russia’s new defence minister, has three great passions – art, the state and President Vladimir Putin. The academic economist and technocrat believes in wielding the authority ...

Moscow's new defense minister said Russia had seized control of nearly 340 square miles of territory in Ukraine in 2024.

When Putin returned as head of state in 2012, Belousov was named economy minister then switched to the Kremlin as the president's economic aide 13 months later. He spent the next seven years as ...

Andrei Belousov—a respected economist and former deputy prime minister—will now lead the country's defense ministry and its prolonged campaign in Ukraine, with President Vladimir Putin having chosen ...

Dossier Centre, a Russian media outlet, has discovered that the new Russian Minister of Defence, Andrei Belousov, oversaw the ...

As a former economics adviser to Putin, economy minister, first deputy prime minister and, briefly, acting prime minister, Andrei Removich Belousov - called "Remych" for short by those who know ...

MOSCOW, May 12 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a surprise new defence minister, nominating civilian Andrei Belousov, a former deputy prime minister who specialises in ...

Andrei Belousov, appointed as his successor on Sunday, is cut from a different cloth. A Soviet-trained economist, Belousov has never served a day in the army and has served Putin in various roles ...

Factbox-Who Is Andrei Belousov, Putin's Choice as Defence Minister? MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a surprise new defence minister, nominating civilian Andrei ...

On 12 May, the Kremlin announced that President Vladimir Putin had nominated economist Andrei Belousov to replace long-serving defence minister Sergei Shoigu. Although there had long been rumours ...