Kudrin pension plan attacks Putin party, Isayev Says

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RUSSIA - Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin's proposal to raise the retirement age is an attack on the United Russia party that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chairs, a senior party official said.

"Kudrin, with fatal insistence, is advocating increasing the pension age," said Andrei Isayev, the party's first deputy secretary of the presidium, according to comments posted on the United Russia...

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