text: Russia fund surplus  #39;can help curb debt #39; MOSCOW: Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said a surplus in a government emergency fund should be used to pay off the country #39;s foreign debt rather than boost government spending, warning that the high oil prices - and profits - which created the 
inputs: Russia fund surplus  #39;can help curb debt #39; MOSCOW: Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said a surplus in a government emergency fund should be used to pay off the country #39;s foreign debt rather than boost government spending, warning that the high oil prices - and profits - which created the 