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Russian PM tells ministers to think before speaking MOSCOW, Friday (Reuters) Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov wants his ministers to engage their brains before opening their mouths, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Friday. "We should follow the president's orders and before saying something, we must do a bit of thinking," Fradkov told a cabinet meeting. "Before beginning a sentence, you have to think about how to end it." He was speaking the day after President Vladimir Putin said televised cabinet meetings would now be held behind closed doors to enhance debate and allow ministers to speak more freely. "When the cameras are on, you want to look good but your head turns off," Putin said. Last week a cabinet squabble broke out over the merits of the media, with the defence minister saying Russians were being turned into idiots by television shows and popular literature. Fradkov was plucked from obscurity this year to head a cabinet widely seen as split between economic reformers and ministers with ties to the security forces. He has been criticised for being Putin's yes-man with no ideas of his own. |
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