Shoigu was an engineer.... accountant as the minister will have...

Shoigu was an engineer.... accountant as the minister will have a different focus. As you know the minister of Defence in Australia is Richard Marles with no military background but being a competent minister is about personal leadership qualities and ability to manage and choose the right people in the department in the right positions to take effective action.

Putin perhaps listened to Prigozhin's complaints and used his election as the time to change , perhaps it was the corrupt generals on the take that interfered with the Prigozhin jet? General Armageddon returned to Russia from Africa leading the Wagner group, reasons unknown - is he going to open the new northern front from Belarus? Was he advising the new minister on who he thought was dirty and unreliable as part of the shakeup?