Putin vs Kudrin: Correspondence conversation

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin talked with the people, and former Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin spoke at Gaidar readings. The former minister and the current prime minister got an absentee discussion, which, however, began with an interview with Vedomosti, published on Monday. Kudrin: I would not call us and me to call the like -minded people with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. In general, unanimity is bad, it means stagnation. ( Interview "Vedomosti" ) Putin: Kudrin did not leave my team. This is my long -standing good comrade, a close friend. [Look at] Some things do not coincide with us, but they do not be of any fundamental nature. ( direct line “Talk with Vladimir Putin” ) Kudrin: now the processes of consolidation of liberal and democratic forces will go. I am absolutely sure of that, I myself am ready to promote this. I'm not talking about the possibility now - this is a more distant question - to lead this process. (Interview “Vedomosti”) Putin: people like Kudrin think globally, strategically, and look into the future. (Direct line “Conversation in Vladimir Putin”) Kudrin: strategic planning of even some procedures, certain documents that we were guided by, it was completely destroyed. Now it is after the latest decisions on the defense system ... There is no strategic planning in the country now. ( Speech on Gaidar readings ) Putin: such people, of course, are needed both in the current government and in the future: there is a place in the ranks. (direct line “Talk with Vladimir Putin”) Alexei Kudrin: I would leave this question (about the support of one of the presidential candidates) open because I would like Putin to offer some new approaches, because I already said that the United Russia program in previous elections did not solve the problem of challenges that are facing the country. (Speech on Gaidar readings) **** Kudrin: I play for honest elections, and this time the elections to the State Duma went with violations. Hundreds of cases, if not thousands! It is clear that the election commissions were not configured for objectivity, to the need to comply with procedures. (Interview “Vedomosti”) Vladimir Putin: Frankly, when I only saw on the screen something like this here on my chest, I honestly tell you, indecent, but nevertheless decided that it was the propaganda of the fight against AIDS, that these are sorry, contraceptives. [...] You said that many went out in the square, because they are unhappy, how the authorities treat them. But look at what the opposition leaders shouted from the stage: "Barana forward!" Is it possible with people as with cattle (direct line “Talk with Vladimir Putin”) Alexei Kudrin: I do not agree with this attitude, because hundreds of thousands of people would not have come out, you don’t need to provoke them. (Performance on Gaidar readings)