Pantyushin said Kudrin could be picked to be the next governor of the Bank of Russia.
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Kudrin argued that Russia would see significant hot money inflows in 2011, and he was right.
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Until recently Alexei Kudrin, Russia's reformist finance minister, had said that what Yukos did was immoral but legal.
Reforms, still moving at a tortoise pace, according to the assessment of former Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin, are underway.
Alexei Kudrin, a former finance minister, has waged a campaign in the pages of Vedomosti, a newspaper, against the idea.
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Kudrin also noted in his keynote speech at the Peterson Institute that his government is not treating the budget issue politically.
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Kudrin was in Washington to attend a meeting of international finance ministers of the G20 and at the International Monetary Fund.
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Mr Kudrin has accused President Medvedev of economic mismanagement and excessive spending.
Putin also used his liberal finance minister, Alexei Kudrin (before his resignation), to assure the world of the soundness of Russian fiscal policy.
The Russian media initially speculated that Mr Kudrin may have openly rebelled to bolster his own ambitions to become Russia's next prime minister.
Last week, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin announced that spending on defence development would triple from 0.5% of GDP to 1.5% from next year.
And if investors were concerned about Mr Kudrin's departure, then they were far from mollified by the man Prime Minister Putin appointed to succeed him.
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin told reporters in Washington, DC this weekend that he will vacate his chairman post next week at VTB Bank and diamond miner Alrosa.
VTB, for its part, accused Bank of Moscow of committing "fraudulent lending" under Mr Borodin's control, while Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has called for a criminal investigation.
Similarly, Mr Putin can make Mr Medvedev prime minister but he cannot make him respected by his colleagues, as the fallout from his row with Mr Kudrin shows.
Others, such as the liberal finance minister, Alexei Kudrin, disagree.
Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin told a gathering of political appointees and economists at the Peterson Institute for International Economics last week that Russia was not complacent in the Putin years.
In the end, the conflict came to a head with President Medvedev telling Mr Kudrin to step down after the rebellious finance minister said he would be unwilling to work with the next prime minister.
The increased expenditures were rejected by outgoing Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, a budget hawk who saw no need for upgrades to existing air and land weaponry, or extra spending in the form of new defense contracts.
The US will not meet the budget goals it set out to reach by 2014, said Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin during a gathering at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC this past weekend.
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But it is too early to say whether Mr Khristenko will be anything more than a caretaker, especially since several other names are being bandied about including Alexei Kudrin, the finance minister, and the defence minister, Sergei Ivanov.
If the price of oil fails to bounce back, then Mr Kudrin will be proven right about the need to curb spending and plan for a future when Russia's earnings will be much lower than they have been in recent years.
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