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- Alexei Kudrin…
Russia plans to slash 100,000 bureaucrat jobs by 2013, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday, in a drive to reduce costs and modernize the country’s bloated bureaucracy.
“We expect that in the three years more than 100,000 federal civil servant jobs will be cut,” Kudrin was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying.
“The overall savings from this by the third year will amount to 43 billion rubles (1.4 billion dollars),” he added…
I find this interesting from a stand point of the fact that America is scaling her government up at a fast pace and Russia is scaling down her government to make it more effective and leaner…
Windows to Russia!
- Russia to abolish 100,000 civil service jobs – minister (globalnation.inquirer.net)
- Russian News: July 11th, 2008! (windowstorussia.com)