MOSCOW, 16 APR - RIA Novosti/Prime. Ex-Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin agrees with the assessment of the President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin that the situation in the Russian economy will recover in the past 2 years, however, believes that in 2016, GDP is hardly starts to grow. first in the process of a Straight line Putin said that the recovery of the Russian economy may be sooner than two years. "So we all think. I also made a prediction that this year's drop in the coming year, a small decline or zero growth, and it will be a little growth, " Kudrin said correspondents. He also clarified that, in his vision, so high Inflation today as it was possible to defend. "High Inflation, of course, wiped out the majority of plans. Inflation today April by April by fact 17%. This means that lending Rates are 3-5% higher than normal. Depends on the quality of the borrower. Rates are required to be from 20% to 25%. Inflation this could protect themselves, " - said Kudrin. in his vision, it is necessary to reduce inflation, the authorities successfully doing." currently, not only is it important to fight the effects of Inflation, but the inflation to decrease, in General it is done, " He added. 1st conversation of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russians, and passed It with 2 Russian channels ORT and RTR. At the same time with the television on ORT and RTR was broadcasted on radio " Mayak ". Then Vladimir Putin has received 400 thousand questions. "Straight line" with Vladimir Putin lasted 3 hours 55 minutes. During this period of time the head of the country's answered 81 questions, 35 of which concerned the Crimea and Ukraine. About how the country is experiencing the tradition of "straight lines" and how the last 14 years was the talk by Vladimir Putin and the Russians,