Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who has offered to mediate talks between the Kremlin and the opposition, said he did not believe that Vladimir...

... party and reiterated that the state played an excessively large role in the economy. First deputy chairman of the Central Bank Alexei Ulyukayev, who traveled to Davos as well, agreed there is too much state influence on business. Despite all the talk against... ... including a stake in VTB, the country's second-largest bank, raised 120 billion rubles ($4 billion). Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin mentioned a one-year or two-year delay in privatization plans. State pressure on business also has a political dimension...

... Nemtsov, Mikhail Kasyanov and Vladimir Ryzhkov, say they are in talks with the liberal Yabloko party, former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny to create a so-called "megaparty,"...

... fiscal policy and the other over regional policy. A panel on fiscal policy saw a sharp exchange between former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and presidential economic adviser Arkady Dvorkovich, who harbor old principal differences. Kudrin is a fiscal conservative...

... means and without recourse to new debt or an excessive dependence on a high oil price. Siluanov, who replaced long-serving Alexei Kudrin in September, told the Gaidar Forum in Moscow that he opposed an increase in budget spending of 2 percent of GDP, or more...

... change, not stagnation, he told reporters on the sidelines of the forum. He was echoing the words of former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who was also present at the event. Reforms involving an easing of the rules for the registration of political parties...

... said late last week. "We can't even think about it." Demands from opposition politicians and former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin for new elections aren't "rational," Gref said. Unlike Europe, Russia hasn't reached the limit of its consumption...

... head Vladimir Zhironovsky, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov and Yabloko party leader Grigory Yavlinsky and former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin have all demanded that the Dec. 4 elections be annulled and new ones be held under new democratic rules and provisions...

... appoint a more liberal prime minister to appease the frustrated middle class, Salin said, pointing to former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin or businessman-turned-presidential hopeful Mikhail Prokhorov as candidates. Former United Russia deputy and political analyst...

... country's system. The audits they conducted confirmed its efficiency. Q: So why did First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Alexei Ulyukayev say "Moscow in the Luzhkov period was a special zone where federal laws and oversight requirements did not... ... transportation infrastructure. Also, the [federal] government was rather neglectful. For example, [former Finance Minister Alexei] Kudrin cancelled one of the road funds. It was something like 13 billion rubles ($430 million) and was growing well. That was...