{"id":61404,"date":"2024-05-12T22:51:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T18:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=61404"},"modified":"2024-05-13T17:54:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T13:54:02","slug":"who-is-russias-new-defense-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/61404\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Russia\u2019s new defense minister?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed Andrey Belousov&rsquo;s candidacy for the post of Russian defense minister.<\/p>\n<p>In the previous administration, Belousov served as the first deputy prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Belousov, 65, served as Vladimir Putin&rsquo;s presidential assistant in Economic Affairs, minister of Economic Development of Russia, and director of the Department of Economics and Finance in the Russian Prime Minister&rsquo;s Office. Earlier, in 1981&ndash;2006, he worked at the Russian Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>From April 30 to May 19, 2020, when incumbent Prime Minister Mishustin was hospitalized with COVID-19, Belousov temporarily held the position of head of the Cabinet.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed Andrey Belousov&rsquo;s candidacy for the post of Russian defense minister. In the previous administration, Belousov served as the first deputy prime minister. Previously, Belousov, 65, served as Vladimir Putin&rsquo;s presidential assistant in Economic Affairs, minister of Economic Development of Russia, and director of the Department of Economics and Finance in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}