Retirement age in Russia will be raised in any case. This was stated by the former Minister of Finance who heads the Council of the Centre for Strategic Research Aleksei Kudrin, as “Interfax” reports.

      “I am sure that retirement age will be raised, the question is the model of how this is to be done. Sooner or later. No one has any doubt. The question is when – in a year, in three or five years, but in any case it will happen” - the agency quotes his words. He pointed out that retirement age will be raised primarily for the sake of pensioners. As soon as society begins to understand the problem of imbalance in the pension system, the raising of retirement age will found more and more supporters, as Kudrin said. According to the latest survey of the National Agency for Financial Research, the majority of Russians (66 percent) oppose the raising of retirement age.