Sergey Shoigu



Sergey Shoigu (born 21 May 1955) is a Russian politician who has served in the Government of Russia as Minister of Defence since 2012.

Previously, Shoigu was Minister of Emergency Situations from 1991 to 2012, and briefly served as Governor of Moscow Oblast in 2012. Shoygu holds the military rank of General of the Army. Shoigu is also the President of the International Sport Federation of Firefighters and Rescuers.

In July 2014, Ukraine opened a criminal case against Shoigu; he was accused of helping to form "illegal military groups" in Eastern Ukraine who at the time fought against the Ukrainian army. At the initiative of Shoigu, Arctic units were created, intended to ensure the safety of Russia's Arctic region.

Married, two daughters. 
 

The Russian army lacks weapons

Governance●28.02.2024

The state defense order in 2023 was completed by 98%, but there is still not enough equipment.

Ksenia Shoigu wasted money “Islands of forts” for misleading purposes

Society●15.04.2020

The expenses of the Island of Fortes fund, whose work is supervised by the daughter of the Minister of Defense Ksenia Shoigu, amounted to 113.6 million rubles in 2019.

The temple of the Ministry of Defense breaks records for high cost

Society●11.02.2020

The amount of public procurement for the construction of the main temple of the Armed Forces in the Patriot Park is 6 billion rubles.

Sergey Shoigu builds the most useless airfield in the country on Franz Josef Land

Officials●14.01.2020

Airfields in the Arctic cost billions of rubles.

Defense Ministry official Georgy Vasilyev denominated currencies for half a billion

Officials●25.12.2019

Rosfinmonitoring investigation about the head of the economic special forces Sergei Shoigu.

Who saws the "military trillion"

Officials●09.12.2019

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov choose a candidate for the head of the VSK, which received contracts for special construction in Russia.

At the deepwater station could close the shield

Society●04.07.2019

The first version of the fire at AC-31 has appeared.

Sergei Shoigu played enough in the "Patriot"

Society●25.04.2019

How the budget money is being sawn at Patriot Park, and what’s the reason for Putin’s cook, Shoigu’s daughter and Rotenberg’s son.

Sergei Shoigu will have a personal mobile operator

Officials●26.03.2019

Voentelecom will build it for the Ministry of Defense on the basis of the Tele2 network.

Sergei Shoigu announced All-Army Cathedral

Officials●15.01.2019

The military was ordered to collect money for an army church.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation launched a tale about the Samarkand complexes

Officials●06.11.2018

Russia has placed the latest classified electronic warfare systems (EW) "Samarkand" in a number of areas, including in the Kaliningrad region and in Belarus. They are called the most modern and perfect, unparalleled in the world.

The Kremlin is cloning weapons programs

Governance●20.09.2018

Russia will take another 10-year program of armaments in 2023, despite the fact that last year a similar program was adopted until 2027.

The Israelis and the Syrians fought on the plane of the Russian Defense Ministry

Governance●18.09.2018

Moscow habitually declared provocations, but no serious measures against Israel will be taken. Officially the aircraft of radar reconnaissance Il-20 was shot down by Syrian "allies".

The Russian Wunderwaffe flew to the bottom of the Barents Sea

Governance●22.08.2018

The Russian missile with a nuclear engine fell into the Barents Sea as a result of unsuccessful tests. It has not yet been raised, although the search operation is being prepared, CNBC claims.

Sergei Chemezov will sell the Defense Ministry laptops for 500 thousand rubles

Officials●09.07.2018

The corporation "Rosteh" will overwhelm the military with laptops at a fabulous price.

Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation took money from "Kurganstalmost"

Officials●09.07.2018

Debts on state contracts were associated with embezzlement at the Vostochny cosmodrome. The company can not get money for metal structures for the airfield in Transbaikalia.

Russia can not rearm its fleet

Officials●17.05.2018

In Sochi, a large-scale meeting of Vladimir Putin with military and production workers took place.

Vladimir Putin promised a constant watch of the battle ships in the Mediterranean Sea

Governance●16.05.2018

This was explained by the need to combat terrorism in Syria and "the expanded geography of the presence of the Russian fleet." Will there be enough of the last trivial motor resource for such trips - time will tell.

Sergei Shoigu sent money for the military technopolis in Anapa in the right hands

Officials●11.05.2018

Military technopolis "Era" in Anapa will be built by the largest contractor of the Ministry of Emergency Measures and the Ministry of Defense - the company "Bamstroiput". She won a contract for the construction of first-stage facilities worth about 3 billion rubles.

Victory Day in Moscow will cost 10 million dollars

Society●06.05.2018

The expenses for the celebration of the Victory Day in Moscow will amount to more than 600 million rubles. Traditionally, the most - about 150 million - will be spent on transportation of servicemen.

On the production of weapons, the Russian Federation will spend in 2018 more than 1 trillion rubles

Governance●04.05.2018

This is almost as much as the country spends on education and medicine. In addition, 500 billion rubles will be spent on the development of new types of weapons, and even more than a trillion rubles - on payments of pensions and allowances to the military.

Russia will build a new base in the Caspian Sea

Officials●03.04.2018

The Russian Ministry of Defense is transferring the Caspian flotilla from Astrakhan to Kaspiisk (Dagestan). So it will be more convenient to demonstrate to neighbors a military fist on the Caspian Sea.

Who got in the "Kremlin report" of the US Treasury

Society●30.01.2018

In the "Kremlin report" of the US Treasury, there are more than 200 people: officials, heads of state companies and billionaires.

Generous Shoigu: the costs of army hockey clubs amounted to 4.8 billion rubles

Society●19.01.2018

SKA and CSKA spend most of all on the salaries of hockey players in the KHL.

At the airbase "Khmeimim" in Syria, allegedly destroyed seven Russian aircraft

Governance●04.01.2018

Radical Islamists fired mortar shells at a Russian airbase in Syria.

Vladimir Putin asked to prepare the economy for war

Governance●23.11.2017

With whom and when was going to fight the RF its president to clarify forgot.

Helicopter failure almost resulted in tragedy

Governance●20.09.2017

The circumstances of the incident at the Luzhsky training ground have been revealed. 

What losses PMC Wagner suffered in Syria

Governance●22.08.2017

During two military campaigns in 2015-2017, the PMC group lost in Syria up to hundreds of dead and more than three hundred wounded soldiers.