When Anatoly Serdyukov, reportedly clad in a bathrobe and slippers, opened the door to a police unit raiding his former employee’s apartment, it was the tipping point for Russia’s beleaguered defense minister.
But it wasn’t the only reason by far why the catastrophically unpopular defense minister was sacked last week in the biggest military reshuffle of President Vladimir Putin’s tenure. Analysts say Putin is raising morale by replacing Serdyukov with the popular former Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu, but Shoigu will nevertheless inherit all of Serdyukov’s problems.
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