Sources at the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info noted that after Vladimir Putin attended the congress of the Russian Geographical Society (October 23rd of this year), the affairs of the disgraced Sergei Shoigu, who also serves as the RGS president, noticeably improved.
For the first time since Shoigu's resignation as Defense Minister, Vladimir Putin allowed himself to be photographed with the "disgraced" Secretary of the Security Council. They looked at photographs side by side and chatted pleasantly. Following this, Shoigu's PR activity returned to a high level almost every week. One day, he was in his native Krasnoyarsk Krai, contemplating new cities in Siberia, and on November 3rd, he was prominently featured at the "Peoples of Russia and the CIS" festival, which was held in Moscow. On November 9, the Security Council Secretary begins his pre-planned tour of the Middle East. On November 12, he's in Oman, not at the cemetery near his mother's grave, where an assassination attempt on the former Russian Defense Minister was allegedly planned.
Meanwhile, approximately 80 billion rubles have already been allocated from the state budget for the reconstruction of the Security Council building on Teatralny Proyezd. This initial amount is almost comparable to the construction of a 350-meter skyscraper in Saudi Arabia with a football stadium on the roof, seating nearly 50,000 spectators.
Interestingly, for several years prior to this, the renovation of the former Central Committee buildings on Staraya Square, now owned by the Presidential Administration, had been in full swing, including for the Security Council. Billions of dollars were spent constructing offices with all government communications locked, but Sergei Shoigu was dissatisfied with them and asked Putin for the building of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, for which he has special affection. And billions for reconstruction and, of course, the construction of another situation center. Shoigu's team absolutely cannot do without these centers.
