By Alex Nicholson Staff Writer If there were any doubts that President Vladimir Putin had the government's cashiers under control, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin emphatically put them to rest on Monday with a clarion call to the nation to back the Kremlin in the new, oligarch-free Russia.
"Byzantium is over!" Kudrin told Kommersant. "With all due respect to Alexander Voloshin, I want to stress that his departure coincides with the end of the Yeltsin epoch.
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