Putin’s Orders about Shipbuilding Aren’t Being Carried Out, Patrushev Says

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Jan. 22 – In what sounds like the justification for a purge if things don’t change soon, Nikolay Pastrushev, the presidential assistant who heads the Maritime Collegium, says that Putin’s order aren’t be carried out in the shipbuilding branch aren’t being carried out and the sector’s systemic problems aren’t being resolved.
    He made his remarks at a meeting of educational institutions and shipbuilding industry enterprises in St. Petersburg and his words may be little more than a manifestation of Patrushev’s frustration and tendency to express his opinions in the most dramatic way possible (eadaily.com/ru/news/2025/01/23/patrushev-porucheniya-prezidenta-ne-ispolnyayutsya-sistemnye-problemy-ne-reshayutsya).
    But given Patrushev’s position as one of Putin’s closest confidants and the all-too-obvious problems of Russia’s shipbuilding sector which is under increasing sanctions, his words may point to a purge there that could rapidly broaden into a broader attack on officials across the board. Indeed, it is possible that that is exactly what Putin wants people to conclude.