Putin spoke about the gang of the 90s and Kudrin’s drift
There are now virtually no economists in the Russian government who had influence on Russian politics in the 1990s.
Russian President Vladimir Putin stated this today during the Direct Line, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We don’t have economists from the 90s. Name at least one last name. Perhaps Alexey Kudrin [Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation], but he is already drifting towards Sergei Glazyev [Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation], because he wants to unseal our oil bottle and increase the cutoff for oil revenues. His fellow students are opposed, saying that this will lead to inflation. Let them argue,” Putin said.
At the same time, he harshly criticized those who were in power in the 90s.
“I will not call those people who were at the helm in the 90s a gang, but I want to note that during this time our social sphere and industry completely collapsed, we lost the defense industry, we practically collapsed the armed forces, brought the country to a civil wars in the Caucasus and brought them to the brink of loss of sovereignty and collapse. Of course, not all people who worked in the 90s bear responsibility for this, but there are also those who bear responsibility,” the president concluded.
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