The president of Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev has fired the finance minister, vice prime-minister Alexey Kudrin. This is the most significant dismissal during the Dmitry Medvedev’s presidency. The reason was that Alexey Kudrin had announced that he wouldn’t like to work in the government that Dmitry Medvedev would form in May 2012, because he had some important disagreements, concerning expenditures on military ends.
Source: www.dp.ru