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A New Deputy Defence Minister; A New Problem for Minister Belousov?

ColGen Vitaly Shulika

Today (25 May 2026) it has emerged that since 22 May, former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Police Colonel General Vitaly Shulika has been appointed Deputy Minister of Defence, replacing Oleg Savelyev, who had served in that role since May 2024. Who? And so what?

Shulika was born in Krasnodar in 1970, where he received a military education at the S. M. Shtemenko Krasno

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Average rating: 3.85 · 11,262 ratings · 1,176 reviews · 74 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Short History of Russia: Tracing Russia's Path Through History, from Its Wars and Conquests, Royal Dynasties, Revolutions into the Modern Era Under Putin―a Concise Exploration of a Complex Nation 3.87 avg rating — 4,684 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West Gets Him Wrong, and How to Get Him Right 3.79 avg rating — 2,419 ratings — published 2019 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia 3.80 avg rating — 1,592 ratings — published 2018 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine 4.01 avg rating — 803 ratings — published 2022 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War 3.84 avg rating — 484 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Russia’s Wars in Chechnya 1994–2009 (Essential Histories, 78) 3.72 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forged in War: A Military History of Russia, From its Beginnings to Today 3.91 avg rating — 143 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homo Criminalis: How crime organises the world 3.55 avg rating — 137 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Modern Russian Army 1992–2016 (Elite, 217) by Mark Galeotti, Johnny Shumate (Illustrator) 3.98 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spetsnaz: Russia’s Special Forces (Elite, 206) by Mark Galeotti, Johnny Shumate (Illustrator) 4.05 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

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“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

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“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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Cartea lunii iunie 2022

Povestea originilor: O istorie mare a tuturor lucrurilor de David Christian

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Genghis-han și nașterea lumii moderne de Jack Weatherford

16 votes 27.1%

J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography de Humphrey Carpenter

10 votes 16.9%

O scurtă istorie a Rusiei: de la cneazul Rurik la Vladimir Putin de Mark Galeotti

9 votes 15.3%

Petru cel Mare de Henri Troyat

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