Ex-Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin called a positive unwillingness of President Vladimir Putin to observe the enemy in the face of Western countries.

Russia's relations with the US and other Western countries deteriorated amid the Ukrainian conflict and sanctions concerning the Russian Federation.

During straight line on Thursday, Putin said that the Russian Federation does not consider any country to be its enemy, but also will not recommend anyone to consider Russia as the enemy.


"the Manager does not want to observe in the West is the enemy and is willing to develop a Relationship with him. It positively, " Kudrin wrote in his own microblog on Twitter on Thursday.

Kudrin also the results of direct line said that, in his vision, Putin sees the problems of the pension system and is ready for broad public discussion. Besides, he noticed that most of the issues that had to be solved on the ground, went directly to the President.

"Excessive manual operation," - said Kudrin.

sections: Politics