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MOSCOW — Russia’s finance minister has said he will step down rather than serve under Dmitry Medvedev if the president becomes prime minister next year as planned.
Alexei Kudrin has been finance minister since 2000, and his conservative fiscal policies are widely credited with helping Russia weather the 2008-09 global financial crisis. Kudrin told reporters from Russia’s state news agencies in Washington on Saturday that he would not serve in Medvedev’s government because of disagreements over economic policy.
