As you know, the president of any state is an appointed position, and the employer in this case is the people of this country. However, the salary of their appointee is not determined at all by those who have chosen him, although it is they who form the tax base from which the president receives wages for his work. It is logical that the question of the wages of the country's leader is one of the most popular. Especially the salary of the President of the Russian Federation.
Reveal your salary - a strong-willed decision
Never in Russian history did citizens of the state know how much their leader makes. In the period of the monarchy, of course, such seditious thoughts would never have occurred to anyone. But almost the entire twentieth century, which was held under the slogans of Soviet rhetoric, was not talked about money at all. And the very question of how much the party’s general secretary earns would most likely lead to a firing wall. In recent history, the relationship of the people with the authorities also somehow did not work out. During the reign of Boris Yeltsin, the idea was not allowed that the people have the right to know what the salary of the President of the Russian Federation is, given that it was they who formed it.
The obligation to publish data on their earnings from officials appeared only in mid-2009, when the corresponding decree was signed by Dmitry Medvedev, who at that time was the head of state. Thus, a year later, journalists got access to the study of this information. Since then, information about the official salary of the President of the Russian Federation began to appear regularly in the media every April.
As it was before
It is worth noting that even before this decree, the President and his staff had to report on income. The corresponding decree was adopted in 1998. According to the document, information about the income of only the employees themselves was provided to the tax authority and the personnel service of the state body. Moreover, the so-called certificate of compliance with the restrictions was sent to the latter, which should indicate the absence of corruption. And although the presidential decree provided for the disclosure of declarations in the media, this was not fulfilled. However, the salary of the President of the Russian Federation worried people hardly less than the incomes of the heads of the largest state corporations.
Information on income could also be obtained at the Central Election Commission, where, according to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, data on the earnings of candidates should be disclosed. Now, this information is published on the official websites of the government, ministries and other government departments.
First information
In April 2010, Russian citizens first learned what the official salary of the President of the Russian Federation is. Needless to say, this information was new to the Russians. It was also announced what the salary is in the administration of the President of the Russian Federation. Among the first then was President Medvedev himself, whose annual salary was 3.3 million rubles. Apartment on 367.8 square meters. m, as well as bank accounts of 3.5 million rubles. were declared as joint property with his wife.
It should be noted that few people could be shocked by these data, but the revenues of the Presidential Administration were truly plunged into a trance. The country learned that the chair of the Russian leader is by no means the most profitable bureaucratic place. For example, the income of the then head of the presidential administration, Sergei Naryshkin, was indicated in the amount of 5.3 million rubles, his first deputy Vladislav Surkov earned a million more.It is worth noting that the income of his wife in 2009 exceeded his own more than nine times and amounted to 56.4 million rubles. This is how the Russians for the first time received confirmation that officials transfer their real sources of income to spouses. However, the adviser to the President of the country Leonid Reiman, whose income exceeded 93 million rubles, was the most shocking.
Of course, active bloggers immediately responded to the published data. However, nothing followed the violent reaction: as they say, "the dog barks, the caravan goes."
How Putin's earnings have changed
For the first time, the current President also unveiled his earnings in 2010. Then he worked as head of government. With a salary of 3.88 million rubles. he owned an apartment of 77 square meters. m, land in the suburbs with an area of 1.5 thousand square meters. m, as well as shares of a St. Petersburg bank. He also declared two Volga cars of 1960 and 65 years of release. A year later, in 2010, Prime Minister Putin earned 5.42 million rubles. The declaration was replenished with an office apartment of more than 150 square meters. m
In the last year he served as prime minister, his incomes again declined to 3.6 million rubles. However, as President, salaries almost doubled. According to official figures, in the first year of his second presidency, Putin earned 5.7 million rubles. According to his spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the increase was due to compensatory payments to the Russian leader for unused vacation at the prime minister's post. This was the reason that his earnings for 2013 amounted to only 3.6 million rubles.
The difference in income of the heads of government and state
It is curious that the earnings of the Prime Minister and the President of the country differ by approximately one and a half million rubles in favor of the former. Thus, Dmitry Medvedev’s income changed approximately in this corridor in accordance with personnel rotation. In the last year of his government, he earned 3.4 million rubles. This is, in general, the average salary of the President of the Russian Federation. In the next reporting year, having already transferred to the post of head of government, he earned 5.8 million rubles. However, in 2013 this level was not reached: Mr. Medvedev's income amounted to only 4.2 million rubles. In this case, the property side of his declaration did not undergo significant changes. What the decrease in earnings of the head of government was connected with, the press service of the department did not explain.
The long-awaited salary increase
After the last publication of his declarations, the leader of the country, Putin ordered to increase the salary of himself and Medvedev. Their salaries, according to the signed decree, tripled. If previously the monthly earnings of Prime Minister Medvedev amounted to 215 thousand rubles, then after the increase he almost reached 570 thousand rubles. The head of state received 280 thousand monthly to increase, after indexation - 740 thousand rubles. Thus, according to the results of 2014, the annual income of the Russian leader should be about 9 million rubles, and Prime Minister Medvedev - about 7 million rubles. As a result, the salary of the President of the Russian Federation has become higher than the income of the head of government.
Reporters were announced that the increase is planned. According to Dmitry Peskov, it was these two posts among the other representatives of the highest authority that were the lowest paid. He also noted that it was their salaries that were not indexed, while the salaries of other officials, employees of the presidential apparatus and parliament increased. Therefore, this decision is only bringing salaries in line.
The plight of the presidential apparatus
It is worth noting that the employees of the apparatus of the Presidential Administration are significantly higher than their direct managers. The average salary of the employees of the Presidential Administration, referring to key personnel of the apparatus, is about 13.5 million rubles. The President’s office is very large, there are only seven assistants, the average earnings of which are approximately 9.7 million rubles.
Big revenue of 34.4 million.rubles, declared Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Russian Security Council. The head of the Putin administration, Sergei Ivanov, reported on more modest incomes - 11 million rubles. His first deputy Vyacheslav Volodin earned three million more. His colleague Aleksey Gromov, who also works as first deputy, earned only 8.9 million rubles, and with a status lower than two deputy Ivanovs, Magomedsalam Magomedov and Anton Vaino, increased their family budgets by 8.3 and 9 million rubles. respectively.
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the head of state, whose annual income amounted to 9.2 million rubles, can boast about the same earnings. As a rule, it is he who puffs out before reporters what salaries are in the presidential administration.
The leaders are the Crimean Embassy
The average salary of the plenipotentiary of the President of Russia in the federal districts is about 8 million rubles. After the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the eighth, Crimean, federal district appeared. It was headed by Oleg Belaventsev. It was he who demonstrated the largest income - 79.4 million rubles, which was formed at his previous job.
Mr. Belaventsev was appointed to this post in March last year. Prior to his appointment in 2012, he worked as the General Director of Slavyanka OJSC, the largest Russian housing and communal enterprise. He is believed to be a good friend of Sergei Shoigu, head of the defense department. In addition to earnings, the origin of which no one bothered to explain, his family is a major owner of real estate. So, the spouse is the owner of 1.8 thousand square meters. m of land, cottages for 150 and houses for 400 "squares", in addition to this, she owns an apartment and non-residential premises of 50 and 130 square meters. m respectively. Mr. Belaventsev himself owns an apartment of 107 square meters. m
It is logical to assume that in 2014 his income should be reduced by about ten times.
Lagging Plenipotentiaries
Earnings of the remaining seven envoys vary in the corridor from six to ten million. The most impressive salary, 10.6 million, was paid to Vladimir Ustinov (Southern Federal District). Victor Tolokonsky, the President’s representative in the Siberian Federal District, lagged a bit: his annual income amounted to 8.9 million. Among the three leaders with an annual income of 7.5 million rubles. plenipotentiary representative in the Ural Federal District Igor Kholmansky. 6.5 million rubles each. the year before last, Mikhail Babich (Volga Federal District) and Alexander Beglov (Central Federal District) earned money. The lowest salary was received by the plenipotentiary representative in the North-West Federal District Viktor Bulavin - 6.4 million rubles.
Combined income
However, the most striking earnings were shown by the other two officials, who combine the work of the envoy with the post of deputy head of government. In particular, Yuri Trutnev, who in August 2013 took two posts at once - deputy prime minister and plenipotentiary representative in the Far Eastern Federal District, declared income of 152 million rubles. This is probably the largest officially announced salary in the administration of the President of the Russian Federation.
Alexander Khloponin, a dollar millionaire who also combines the work of the deputy prime minister and the embassy (until 2014, represented the interests of the President in the North Caucasus Federal District), earned more than two times less - only 66.5 million rubles.
Assistants and Advisers
The Kremlin’s apparatus contains seven presidential aides, two aides, who combine work with the post of heads of the Office of the President of Russia, nine advisers and seventeen heads of the Office. Among the assistants, the most impressive income was declared by Igor Levitin, who worked before being appointed Minister of Transport in September 2013 - 21.9 million rubles. Larisa Brycheva, who is an assistant to the President and at the same time the head of his Office, earned 14.5 million rubles. A colleague of Mrs. Brycheva, who holds similar posts, Konstantin Chuychenko received slightly less - 11.2 million rubles, as well as another assistant to the head of state Andrei Fursenko.
Among the advisers with an income of 11.5 million rubles. distinguished Veniamin Yakovlev, whose earnings on average double the income of his colleagues. The lowest salary was recorded by another adviser - Vladimir Tolstoy, who earned 5.1 million rubles.
