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Why Putin moved Patrushev to a body almost no one has heard of
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Why Putin moved Patrushev to a body almost no one has heard of

Russia's biggest long-term vulnerability isn't tanks or microchips. It's ships.

Patrushev wasn't sidelined. He was reassigned to the problem the Kremlin now treats as existential — a shipbuilding industry that cannot supply its own oil-export fleet.

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