Russian defense and foreign ministers keep posts in Putin shake-up: Kremlin
 

Russian defense and foreign ministers keep posts in Putin shake-up: Kremlin
By: World News - 01-21-20
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Russia's acting Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu attends a meeting with members of the Security Council chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin, at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia January 20, 2020. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov kept their posts in a government shake-up unveiled on Tuesday, the Kremlin said.

Lavrov, 69, has been the face of Moscow’s muscular foreign policy for more than a decade and a half as the Kremlin has reasserted what President Vladimir Putin said was Russia’s rightful standing as a world power.

Reporting by Moscow Bureau; Editing by Andrew Osborn