INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
showed that the Kremlin seeks to use his appointment to boost support from military commentators.Belousov, who replaced longtime Defense
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as more attentive to milbloggers' criticisms than his predecessor in an effort to co-opt a larger, non-Kremlin-affiliated milblogger
compared to Shoigu, who faced criticism from pro-war bloggers for a series of failures in the war and was the target of the 2023 Wagner
