Russian finance minister denies seeking military personnel cuts
20:07 26/05/2011 MOSCOW, May 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin denied on Thursday that his ministry had proposed cutting military personnel as a government spending reduction measure.
"No one is going to reduce the number of military servicemen, which will remain at a level of 1 million," said Kudrin, who is also deputy prime minister.
He added, however, that the Finance Ministry had proposed slowing down the increase in the number of contract servicemen.
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