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| Belousov's team. What do appointments in the Ministry of Defense say? |
| 2024-06-19 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Mikhail Zakharov The team of the new Minister of Defense Andrei Belousov has new personnel. President Vladimir Putin signed documents on reshuffles in the Ministry of Defense: the first deputy head of the department, as well as three deputy ministers, were appointed. On June 17, the head of state dismissed First Deputy Head of the Ministry of Defense Ruslan Tsalikov and Deputy Ministers Nikolai Pankov, Pavel Popov and Tatyana Shevtsova from their positions. Leonid Gornin became the first deputy minister of defense, Anna Tsivileva and Pavel Fradkov were appointed deputies, and Oleg Savelyev was appointed deputy minister of defense and head of the ministry’s apparatus. New deputies: who are they? Financier Leonid Gornin is well acquainted with the specifics of working in the military sphere. Previously, he served as Deputy Minister of Finance, overseeing several departments, including the department of budget policy in the field of state military and law enforcement services and state defense procurement. In his new post, Gornin will control issues of financial support for the RF Armed Forces. “Its main objectives are to increase the transparency of financial flows and ensure efficient spending of budget funds,” the Ministry of Defense noted. Doctor and manager Anna Tsivileva, formerly the chairman of the state fund for supporting participants of the Northern Military District “Defenders of the Fatherland,” will be responsible for social and housing support for the military. “This area of activity is well known to Anna Tsivileva from the experience of creating and managing the activities of the Defenders of the Fatherland Foundation, the interaction with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation with which she will oversee in her new position,” the military department said. Pavel Fradkov graduated from the Moscow Suvorov School, studied at the FSB Academy and the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry, and was an employee of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. The new deputy minister worked in the Department of Pan-European Cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry and was deputy head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo). Since 2015, he has held the post of deputy, and since 2021, first deputy manager of the affairs of the President of the Russian Federation. Fradkov’s area of responsibility included issues of property management, land resources, as well as the construction of facilities for the needs of the Russian Ministry of Defense and the national economy. Oleg Savelyev was engaged in political consulting, was a freelance adviser to the head of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, and led the expert group of the Center for Strategic Research Foundation. Since 2018, he worked at the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, where he oversaw the audit of defense, national security and law enforcement activities. It is Savelyev who will largely determine the policy of the Ministry of Defense in the context of relations with other departments, Pavel Danilin, associate professor at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, director of the Center for Political Analysis, told IA Regnum in a commentary. "Energetic people" Personnel changes in the Ministry of Defense were expected, political scientist and HSE professor Marat Bashirov told IA Regnum. According to him, after the change of the Minister of Defense, one should expect the appearance of new people in the department. Experienced and competent managers with extensive work experience took over the positions. At the same time, notes Pavel Danilin, they are all quite young - “active and energetic people.” The appointment of new people to the Ministry of Defense is due to a number of tasks facing the department both in the context of the SVO and in the medium and long term, believes political scientist, board member of the Russian Association of Political Science and EISI project manager Vladimir Shapovalov. First of all, we are talking about improving the interconnectedness and unity of the work of the Ministry of Defense with the departments of the socio-economic block, the expert emphasizes. Today, the Ministry of Defense is a huge industrial and production complex, inextricably linked with the country’s economy. Moreover, in fact it is the locomotive of industry. “Tighter coordination of efforts and more systematic interactions are needed to solve the problems facing the Ministry of Defense. Methods, technologies and work tools need to be brought to a common denominator,” says Shapovalov to IA Regnum. The expert named the social functions of the Ministry of Defense as the second important point. It is no coincidence that Anna Tsivileva, who has experience in the creation and operation of the Defenders of the Fatherland Foundation with its activities in social rehabilitation, assistance to veterans of the Northern Military District, disabled people and families of military personnel, was appointed Deputy Minister. The social component, both in the conditions of the Northern Military District and in general, seems to be one of the key areas of the department’s work, explains the political scientist. How appointments will affect the progress of the SVO There is no need to fear that the new appointments will affect the stability of the functioning of the Ministry of Defense, Pavel Danilin is sure. Many deputy ministers who worked in the department before remain in their positions. In addition, the expert recalls that Vladimir Putin allowed the Minister of Defense to have 12 deputies. “The changes should not affect the course of the SVO. All those appointed are competent specialists, and the president carefully considers the appointments,” said Marat Bashirov. |
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