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Economic Minister Muses Upon Future Business
Even though Russia’s Economic Development Minister German Gref doesn’t intend to resign yet, he appears to be aware what to do once he leaves the government.
“I don’t intend to send in my resignation, but similar to my colleagues, government’s members, I should be replaced in the near term. The government needs rotation. It is a mandatory factor,” Gref said in an interview that NTV broadcast Friday.
Asked whether he would like to change offices with Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin, Gref joked he would better do it with the defense minister.
Gref said he had been the economy minister for the whole six years, longer than any other man in charge of the economic department of Russia in the last decade, Interfax reported. “I want to say it is extremely hard work and very heavy burden,” Gref specified adding the country has a great number of worthy men “who would manage these duties as good as me.”
Speaking about the plans after leaving the government, Gref said he would like to shift to business. “I would like to go somewhere to business, but I don’t know where yet. It is necessary to change the scope of activities, to see in work the things that we are creating with our own hands on the other side,” the minister said.
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