Speaking about appointments.

Peskov mentioned, that military budget is close to mid '80, and it is 6.7%, that is not critical. But before the amount of military spending was about 3%.

Civil defense minister is not something extraordinary.

Responsibilities of Ministry of Defense are: drafting and implementing government policy and legal regulation of defence and other related functions stipulated by the Constitutional and other federal laws and acts of the president and the government; it is also authorised to manage the property of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and subordinate organizations.

General Staff is the body which is responsible for military operation planning and carrying out. It is central military authority management and basic operative entity of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which coordinates the activities of the Armed Forces, other troops, military formations and bodies to carry out tasks in the field of defense, their construction and development, as well as planning their use. Headed by the head of the General Staff who is the 1st deputy of Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Basic tasks of General Staff:
- strategic planning of the use of armed forces, other troops, military formations and bodies;
- carrying out operational and mobilization preparation;
- carrying out activities to maintain combat and mobilization readiness;
- organization strategist and mobilization deployment;
- coordination of activities for military registration, preparation of citizens for military service. service, their conscription into the military. service and military training;
- intelligence, communications, electronic warfare organization;
- topographic geodesic security;
- implementation of measures to protect the state secrets;
- organizing the service of troops and ensuring the safety of the military services;
- conducting military scientific research.
According to Адекват Z Telegram channel Belousov,

as has been said more than once over several years, is a master of fine-tuning to great depth. Not the head of the fire brigade, which in real time clears away rubble and sews it together with a living thread, and there is no such need in the Ministry of Defense, but, sorry for the loud word, perhaps, a demiurge who not only forms the strategy of the very top level, but also builds in practice a chain of measures for its implementation, poorly imaginable from the outside in terms of its scope.

So, to sum up, the Defense Ministry has got a fine-tuning specialist, who is professional in management. As far as I understand, he is supposed to preserve what Shoigu has restored and make the best use of the production lines further.
In basics of economic science, we all learn about butter and guns. Here, as far as I understand, Putin decided to find the best possible person who can figure out ideal balance of these two categories. Informed people say that Belousov is genius of financial planning. One of his tasks, according to Dmitry Peskov is introducing innovations. It is important to fit the economy of the power bloc into the country’s economy so that it corresponds to the dynamics of the moment.
From my point of view, it is very wise decision.
Speaking of Shoigu, he is not dismissed or retired, he has got a promotion to Security Counsel as a secretary and will be supervising same sphere he is professional in.

Head of General Staff – Valery Gerasimov kept his position.

So, the work continues. We will see how it goes, but now things look very promising in a good way, at least to me and professionals I’ve talked to.

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