From camping buddy and soulmate to enemy: who is Putin’s possible traitor Sergei Shoigu (70)?

For years they went camping and fishing together in the Siberian wilderness, often bare-chested. Rarely has Russian President Vladimir Putin (73) maintained such an amicable relationship in the Kremlin as with Sergei Shoigu (70) – his Minister of Defense until 2024. Today, the name of Putin’s old camping buddy invariably comes up first in a possible conspiracy against the president. Portrait of a political survivor who suddenly finds himself dangerously close to the abyss.

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