Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin denied on Thursday that his ministry had proposed cutting military personnel as a government spending reduction measure.
"No one is going to reduce the number of military servicemen, which will remain at a level of 1 million," said Kudrin, who is also deputy prime minister.
He added, however, that the Finance Ministry had proposed slowing down the increase in the number of contract servicemen.
MOSCOW, May 26 (RIA Novosti)
