Former Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, head of the Center for Strategic Research (CSR) Alexei Kudrin accepted the proposal to head the Accounting Chamber. On this post it was put forward by "United Russia", and with it the speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin personally spoke, Kudrin. As a result, he could not refuse an important and responsible mission: "I understand the tasks facing the Court of Accounts:.

The Accounting Chamber should answer the question, why something turns out, something is not there, "Vedomosti quotes Kudrin. At a meeting with deputies, he admitted that the proposal was for him a complete surprise. Previously, nobody discussed this post with him, as, indeed, no others in the government or the presidential administration. On the move, Kudrin named his main mission as the head of the Accounting Chamber: "reducing corruption in the financial sphere". But soon an open letter appeared on his website, where the program of actions. Kudrin promised to monitor not only that public investments be spent in accordance with agreed decisions, but also that such investments "bring us closer to national goals, lead to essential changes in the lives of citizens". The second most important point Kudrin called the transition to a greater digitization of control processes. Thirdly, he pointed to the need to make the work of the Chamber of Accounts more open, so that the parliament and society knew about the progress of the implementation of the tasks. As for corruption, Kudrin considers it important not only to catch criminals by the hand, but to reduce the opportunities for such phenomena in general. In general, he noted that the former head of the department Tatyana Golikova already largely followed these principles, and now he himself is ready to take up this work. However, President Vladimir Putin has yet to approve this position. According to the law, the State Duma offers the head of state a choice of at least three candidates. Kudrin, as already mentioned above, comes from the "United Russia". The Communists nominated Yuri Sinelshchikov, the head of the Accounting Chamber, Anatoly Aksakov, chairman of the financial market committee, "Fair Russia", and the LDPR discussed the candidature of the Auditor of the Accounting Chamber of the Russian Federation Maxim Rokhmistrov. Recall that Golikova in the new Cabinet proposed the position of Deputy Prime Minister for Social Policy.