Shoigu biography
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Shoigu biography
Shoigu at The Man Who Would Be Russia's King?
Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, a close ally, friend and rumored potential successor of President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, turned 60 on Thursday.
"A servant to the tsar, a father to soldiers," political pundits say of Shoigu — one of the country's longest-serving government officials — citing Mikhail Lermontov's poem and pointing to Shoigu's main political trait: loyalty.
For the three last years, Russians have named Shoigu "Person of the Year" behind only Putin, according to polls by the independent Levada Center. Last month, Shoigu took second place behind the president in a rating of Russian officials and politicians in which respondents were asked to choose several names from a list as the most trustworthy leaders.
Shoigu was chosen by 26 p