Moscow, 17 June: Duma speaker and chairman of One Russia's Supreme Council Boris Gryzlov has said it is necessary to increase the number of his party's members in the Russian government and revealed serious disagreements with Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin.

"I believe it is now necessary to increase the number of One Russia members in the government," Gryzlov said, in reply to a question by a Communist Party representative at the Duma today during a inter-party youth discussion of problems of modernization of the country's political system.

A Communist Party representative asked the speaker what he thought about giving ministerial jobs to representatives of the opposition.

Gryzlov replied he believed it was not necessary to abandon the established practice whereby "there is a parliamentary majority in the Duma on the basis of one party, and there are ministers, who are members of One Russia".

Gryzlov named them and singled out relations with one non-member, Finance Minister Kudrin, with whom, Gryzlov stressed, the party and its deputies in the Duma "have quite serious disagreements".

Gryzlov said Kudrin was quite often invited to the meetings of the presidium of the One Russia faction in the Duma, "five or six times a year" and "we always have quite heated discussions".

"We do not agree with everything that the Finance Ministry proposes," Gryzlov said. However, he said, discussions with the ministry's leaders "are part of interaction of various views" on processes connected with the country's economic development prospects.