President Vladimir Putin will keep demoted ally Nikolai Patrushev, a Cold War warrior who crafted the Kremlin’s national security strategy, on Russia’s top consulting security body, according to a decree published on Monday.
In one of the most surprising moves in the May reshuffle of his entourage and the government, Putin moved Patrushev from his 16-year stint as the country’s security chief to a position with virtually no power — to oversee shipbuilding as a Kremlin aide.
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