Shamanic rituals on Rublyovka and Medvedev’s mockery: how Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu is trying to win back Putin’s favor through rituals
It has become known that the head of the Security Council, Sergey Shoigu, has become a rather troublesome neighbor for other residents along Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway in recent weeks. “Every day at 4–5 a.m., a din starts there, shouting, and thick acrid smoke pours out.
Someone even tried tactfully to find out what was going on, but there were no explanations. Through staff, they found out that several shamans had been brought there; they live there and toward morning perform rituals with drums and other things. And at the same time they burn some aromatic plants. No one knows how much longer this will last,” our source said.
What the shamans are asking for on Shoigu’s behalf is unknown.
Another source notes that Shoigu is in an extremely nervous state. There are no clear signals that he has received “forgiveness” from Putin. “No one is preventing Shoigu’s daughters from working on budget projects. But Kuzhugetovich himself is indeed in difficult circumstances, expecting a blow from all sides. Apparently, everyone is satisfied with his timid position, and Putin is unlikely to ‘finish him off,’ since that would create an unnecessary imbalance in the system of checks and balances,” the source believes.
Another source also speaks of Shoigu’s extremely nervous state: “He really is under great tension all the time. This greatly amuses Dmitriy Medvedev, since their relations are very bad. It seems they don’t even greet each other now.”
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