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Is Putin willing to turn on his mates?

(Tsalikov and Shoigu in happier times – for them – in 2022, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Sergey_Shoigu_%282022-03-01%29_07.png?_=20220301150645)

Is former Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu getting worried? The arrest of a longtime associate sees a major corruption investigation within the defence ministry getting closer and closer to him. Yet Shoigu is a friend of Putin’

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Published on March 06, 2026 09:26
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A Short History of Russia: ...

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We Need to Talk About Putin...

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The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

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“Those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those who do regret it have no brain.”
Mark Galeotti, We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West Gets Him Wrong, and How to Get Him Right

“Language is intrinsically political, as how we talk about something conditions how we think about it,”
Mark Galeotti, A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin

“History becomes a guidebook for geopolitics.”
Mark Galeotti, A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin

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