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Russian Communists to ask PM to sack finmin


    MOSCOW (Reuters) - The leader of Russia's Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov said on Thursday his party will ask Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to sack finance minister Alexei Kudrin over the financial crisis.

    Zyuganov, who was speaking to reporters before a meeting with Putin, said Kudrin's name was "the first in the list of the monetary team" of economy officials who the Communists want to be ousted from their posts.

    "The course is absolutely wrong... We need another policy... We need a budget of another quality and a new strategy," said Zyuganov. The Communists are in a minority in Russia's parliament.

    (Reporting by Denis Dyomkin, writing by Tanya Mosolova, editing by Christian Lowe)