1. Russia's president appears to be getting rudolph rid of or at least shuffling around, some senior figures.
2. The arrests began last month when a Russian deputy defense minister was detained.
3. Then the head of the ministry's personnel directorate was called hauled into court this week. [personnel directorate: 인사부]
[haul: to take something or someone somewhere, especially by force:
- haul something away: FBI agents hauled away boxes of records.
- haul someone off: The police hauled him off to jail in front of his whole family.]
4. Two more senior military officials have been detained.
5. All face corruption charges.
6. The arrest began after President Vladimir Putin began his fifth term and shuffled his ally, long-time Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, into a new post.
7. It immediately raised questions about whether Putin was reasserting control over the defense Ministry amid the war in Ukraine.
I'm Charles de Ledesma.