Working as a prime minister is a rather difficult and responsible job, since the well-being of the country's inhabitants largely depends on the person in this position. With regard to Russia, given its size, this rule is all the more true. But how is the work of the prime minister evaluated? Let's find out how much Dmitry Medvedev earns per month, and also find out the prospects for wages in 2018.

Tasks of the Prime Minister

First, let's find out what exactly the prime minister gets paid for. Officially, this post is called the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation. Any citizen of our country can be appointed to it, except for those persons who also have the citizenship of other states. The Prime Minister is appointed to his post by the President with the approval of the State Duma by a simple majority of votes.

The main duties and powers of the Prime Minister are:

• determining the direction of the Cabinet of Ministers;
• organization of government work;
• approval of normative acts issued by the Cabinet of Ministers;
• representing the government abroad and within the country.

In addition, the Prime Minister may hold other positions in the civil service. So, for example, Dmitry Medvedev holds a number of other positions, both directly in the state apparatus of the Russian Federation and in the apparatus of the Union State of Belarus and Russia.

Medvedev's earnings

Now, let's find out the answer to the question of how much the Chairman of the Government of Russia earns. In 2015, Medvedev's official salary as prime minister from January 1 to February 28 was 570 thousand rubles a month, and from March 1 to the end of the year - 513 thousand rubles a month. Such a decrease in wages is associated with Vladimir Putin's decree on lowering by the end of the year wages for representatives of the highest bureaucratic apparatus by 10%, including the president and prime minister. This measure was caused by the economic crisis in the country.

Thus, it can be determined that Dmitry Medvedev's annual earnings from his direct activities in public office in 2015 amounted to 6.27 million rubles.

Dynamics of salary changes

Now let's find out what salary Dmitry Medvedev had in previous years, and how much it differs from the amount that the prime minister earns now. His monthly earnings are shown in the table below.

As you can see, in April 2014 there was a significant increase in the salary of the prime minister. Then, Vladimir Putin raised it to himself and Dmitry Anatolyevich by 2.65 times. Thus, the prime minister's salary became equal to 570,000 rubles a month. Prior to that, Dmitry Medvedev's earnings from the very moment he took office as prime minister amounted to 215 thousand rubles a month.

What to expect from 2018?

It is still difficult to talk about how much the prime minister will receive in 2018, because the country's government does not advertise its decisions on this matter in advance. But, if nothing changes, then the presidential decree on reducing the salary of senior officials by 10% from January 1, 2018 will lose its force. Thus, Medvedev's salary will return to its previous values, and will be 570 thousand rubles a month, or 6.84 million rubles a year.

However, one cannot rule out the possibility that Vladimir Putin will extend his decree into 2018, or make some other adjustments to the wages of senior officials, in accordance with the current economic situation.

After Mr. Medvedev announced the robbery of the country's population and people of older age groups in particular, many people began to ask themselves the question, what state do we live in and who is in charge of us?

While the memories of the gangster 90s and the collapse of the country were sharp, while there were rich years and the patriotic upsurge of the Russian spring? these questions were not asked by the people and we simply trusted the people in power. They scolded, yes.

But mostly with understanding and hope.

And then June 2018 came and the state withdrew its obligations to save the country's population and showed that it was controlled by the IMF directives.

Who is implementing these directives?

Let's not touch Putin yet, let's start with Medvedev.

Medvedev, who are you really?

He studied well at school and his teacher said that he looked like "..a little old man .." (from Wikipedia). After he left school and entered adulthood, through the university, interesting things began to happen.

It was the beginning of the 90s: racketeering, robbery, raider seizures, organized criminal groups, etc.

Tk, here is a young lawyer Medvedev began to earn money and:

In 1993-1995, co-founder and director of the corporation "Ilim Pipe Enterprise" on legal issues, the owner of a 20% stake. Source Wikipedia

Times were murky. By the way, if you take a walk on Wikipedia for the facts that I describe here, you can dig up a lot of interesting things about a figure who is going to rob older people.

About Medvedev's money

The Ilim group in 2005 was worth $1.5 billion, which means that $300 million belongs to Medvedev.

But Medvedev is a civil servant and he needs to somehow camouflage his money and source of income

Profile magazine describes the history of capital in this way: Medvedev's business partners did not differ in particular cleanliness in doing business. In the autumn of 1999, realizing that the case was steadily heading towards an unpleasant trial, Medvedev hastily left the ranks of the Ilim leadership and left the founders of Finzell. Just at the moment when the state began checking the legality of a number of Ilim's privatization projects. As a result of which, for example, the illegality of the privatization of one of the largest enterprises of ZAO, the Kotlas Pulp and Paper Mill, was revealed. But this had nothing to do with Medvedev.*.

Do you remember how, starting in 2007, the country's forests began to burn and are still burning? Who do you think pushed through the Forest Code in its current version? I do not know. I warn everyone - I'm guessing. I'm just connecting disparate facts with each other.

How much money does Medvedev have?

Have you ever walked through the countryside? Agree that you can immediately see who has what wealth. Tell me, what kind of prosperity should a person have in such a summer cottage - a country cottage of the presidential couple Medvedev.

Putin was in the civil service all the time, but during this time his relatives and friends became fabulously rich

An international journalistic investigation has shed light on the untold wealth of Russian President Vladimir Putin, recorded in his inner circle, writes Novoye Vremya magazine

The total assets of daughters, sons-in-law, great-nephews and friends have already reached $24 billion.

In an investigation by Putin and intermediaries, which was carried out by journalists from the international Center for the Study of Corruption and Organized Crime (OCCRP) and the Russian Novaya Gazeta, published in late October, it is said that although the accounts of the Russian leader look very modest, the total capital of his inner circle reaches $ 24 billion.

Relatives and friends

A few months after his marriage in February 2013 to the president's youngest daughter, Katerina Tikhonova, 31-year-old Kirill Shamalov began negotiations to buy shares in the large Russian petrochemical company SIBUR from an old friend of his newly minted father-in-law, Gennady Timchenko. Having received more than $1 billion in loan funds from the state-owned Gazprombank, where his elder brother Yuri is a member of the board of directors, Shamalov Jr. successfully completed the deal.

As a result, by 2015, the assets of Tikhonova and her husband were estimated by analysts at more than $5 billion.

48-year-old Mikhail Shelomov works as a leading specialist in the transport company Sovcomflot, where he earns about $ 8.5 thousand a year. At the same time, over the past 13 years, the company registered in his name, Accept, has acquired assets worth about $ 600 million. Such arithmetic may seem strange, unless one fact is added to the conditions of the problem: Mikhail is the son of Lyubov Shelomova, a cousin of President Putin.

According to OCCRP journalists, back in 2004, the Accept company acquired shares in Rossiya Bank, which in the West is considered to be “the bank of Putin’s friends.” Since 2014, the financial institution itself and its owner, Putin's comrade Yuri Kovalchuk, have come under US sanctions in connection with Russia's invasion of Crimea.

Over time, Putin's nephew expanded his stake in the bank through the purchase of Platinum, a company associated with the brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, Putin's longtime pals and one of Russia's largest state contractors. By 2016, the value of his stake had reached $21 million, investigators calculated.

And at the end of 2016, Accept acquired half of the shares in a company that intends to spend $190 million to build a race track near St. Petersburg and Putin’s favorite ski resort, Igora.

Despite such an active and diversified investment activity, in a conversation with investigators, Shelomov showed poor knowledge of the affairs of his assets. And after they asked if he was a figurehead hiding the name of the true owner, he interrupted the conversation.

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Not ready to comment on his commercial operations was another representative of the Russian president's entourage and a shareholder of Rossiya Bank - cellist and godfather of one of Putin's daughters, Sergei Roldugin. According to the Panama Papers published in May 2016, he was the owner of several offshore companies, where Russian state-owned banks and companies owned by oligarchs transferred funds. In total, $2 billion passed through Roldugin's offshore accounts.

Another Putin friend, Pyotr Kolbin, who once worked as a butcher and is now in the top 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes, told the press that he was "not a businessman." Although, according to the publication, in 2010-2011 he earned more than $500 million for the resale of shares in the oil trader Gunvor and the gas company Yamal LNG. Both operations link him to billionaire Gennady Timchenko, who has been described in the press as Putin's friend since 2004.

Having spread the capital received from oligarchs and state-owned companies into the pockets of relatives and close friends, the Russian leader organized his own entourage into a structure that somewhat resembles the “family” of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Only the main roles in this scheme went not to relatives, but to old friends of the head of the Kremlin.

“His “family” is built not on blood ties, but on a network of colleagues, countrymen and friends,” argues Ilya Ponomarev, a former deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, who at one time was the only one who voted against the annexation of Crimea and left Russia in 2014 with a ban on the return entry.

How many assets does Putin actually control?

The scale of Putin's assets can be many times, or even tens of times, higher than the $24 billion mentioned in the latest investigation.

Thus, according to Russian political scientist and former Kremlin adviser Stanislav Belkovsky, Putin's fortune in 2007 was about $40 billion, and in 2012 it was already $70 billion.

The first figure coincided with the calculations of the investigators of the British television channel BBC, who in January 2016 released a documentary Putin's secret wealth. English television people interviewed those who were previously close to the Russian president and concluded that the Russian leader used his power to accumulate secret wealth of $ 40 billion.

Bill Browder, founder and head of the Hermitage Capital investment fund, one of the largest foreign investment funds in Russia in 1995-2006, approached the president's fortunes more boldly. After the arrest and mysterious death in a pre-trial detention center of the auditor of this company, Sergei Magnitsky, the well-known sanctions law, the so-called Magnitsky Act, was passed in the United States.

“I believe that it [Putin's fortune] is $200 billion<...>all this money is owned, stored in Swiss bank accounts, in stocks, hedge funds managed by Putin and his cronies,” Browder said in a February 2015 interview with the American television channel CNN.

Determining the real state of Putin is not easy, experts admit. After all, it is divided between a whole network of companies and holdings, many real estate objects and accounts of close associates.

It is precisely because of the impossibility of proving the ownership of the assets that the authoritative American edition of Forbes has not yet included Putin’s name in its rating of billionaires, where the first line has been occupied by the founder of the computer giant Microsoft Bill Gates with a current fortune of almost $ 90 billion for many years in a row.

At the same time, some observers note that in the matter of Putin's wealth, the exact figure is not as important as the origin of the funds. “Putin has been in the civil service all the time, and even if he has a capital of $1 million, it still means that he was involved in corrupt activities,” Ponomarev believes.

Dmitry Medvedev is known in Russian society as a liberal and sociable politician, a statesman with ambiguous resonant statements. In 2008, his salary as head of the Russian state was 2.8 million rubles. in year. Over 10 years, it has increased 10 times: in 2017, the Prime Minister indicated 8.5 million rubles in the declaration. income. The main sources of its formation are the state salary and interest on bank deposits. Medvedev earns more than his colleagues from the CIS countries, but his income is 30-80% lower than the wages of prime ministers from EU countries with a parliamentary form of government.

How much does the Prime Minister of Russia earn?

Dmitry Medvedev is a Russian statesman who began his career in politics in 1990 as an adviser to the chairman of the Leningrad City Council of People's Deputies. was small - about 500 rubles.

In 2017, Dmitry Anatolyevich indicated in the income statement the amount of 8.5 million rubles. In this scenario, his monthly income exceeded 700 thousand rubles.

Table 1. How much does Medvedev D.A. earn - data for 2017, rub.

* Gazeta.Ru

Reference! Dmitry Medvedev's career began back in 1983, when, as a law student, he worked as a janitor for 120 rubles. per month.

Medvedev began to earn high salaries while already in high government positions:

• 1999 - Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation;
• 2000 - Deputy Chief of Staff of the President of the Russian Federation;
• 2000 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO Gazprom;
• 2003 - Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation;
• 2008 - President of the Russian Federation;
• 2012 - Chairman of the Government of Russia.

In 2003-2008 the politician's earnings averaged 1.2-2.5 million rubles. per month. It included not only the salary of the official, but also dividends on the shares of Gazprom and CJSC Finzell. Since 2008, the state salary of 186,289 rubles per month has become the main source of his income. By 2018, it increased by 3.8 times.

What makes up Dmitry Medvedev's earnings?

1. state salary

In 2017, the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation received 570 thousand rubles from the state treasury. per month.

1. Interest on deposits

According to the information and analytical magazine Politobrazovanie, by the beginning of 2018, there were more than 5 million rubles in its 14 bank accounts. They bring politics up to 400-500 thousand rubles. in year.

1. Dividends on shares

According to unconfirmed reports, the shares of CJSC Ilim Pulp Enterprise remained in the hands of the head of the Russian Government, which annually bring him 100-200 thousand rubles. income. However, the official himself does not confirm this information in the declaration.

The assets of D. Medvedev, according to the declaration of 2017, include:

• land plot (4,700 sq. m);
• apartment in Moscow (367.8 sq. m.);
• car GAZ-20 "Victory" (1948);
• GAZ-21 "Volga" (1962).

How much did Dmitry Medvedev earn in 10 years

In 2002, President of Russia Vladimir Putin adopted Decree N 655, according to which the monetary remuneration of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation was set at 50,400 rubles, and the President - 63,000 rubles. The document provides a grid of changes in salaries of the two highest government positions until 2018.

* Information from the official website of the Government of the Russian Federation

Based on the information presented in the table, it can be established that for 10 years, being the President and Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev earned 45,121,606 rubles. The average monthly salary of a politician for a 10-year period was set at 3,760,134 rubles.

Reference! The crisis in the Russian economy became the reason for the signing by the President of the Russian Federation of Decree No. 494 on reducing the salary of senior government officials by 10% by the end of 2018. This standard led to the fact that in 2017 Dmitry Anatolyevich's salary was reduced by 21 thousand rubles. compared to 2016.

In 2017, the salary of the head of the Government of the Russian Federation was only 3-5% higher than. At the same time, it is 5 million rubles. less than a year.

Reference! In addition to the state salary, the position of prime minister entails a range of social guarantees: the right to immunity, state security, a company car, free government communications and the right to free stay in the VIP lounges of the country's airports and train stations.

According to the information from the declaration of income of a statesman, the politician's cash receipts outside the state salary amount to 20% of his monthly income. They are mainly represented by interest on bank deposits.

Reference! Many citizens are interested in what they spend their rather big money on.Salary Dmitry Medvedev. It is known that the Prime Minister collects vinyl records - both new and rare. At the state dacha, he maintains a small zoo, which is home to a reindeer donated to him in 2010 by the Evenk family. It is known that the head of the Russian government often purchases clothes and shoes via the Internet.

How much prime ministers earn in other countries of the world

D.A. Medvedev's salary is lower than in the developed countries of Europe, where prime ministers in the conditions of parliamentary republics act as key figures of the state. However, it significantly exceeds the income of heads of government in EU countries with a presidential form of government, as well as in the CIS countries.

Table 4. Earnings of prime ministers in foreign countries in 2018

Reference! In the United States, ministerial salaries in 2017 averaged $168,000 a year, which is $1.1 million in ruble terms. Considering that the price level in the United States is several times higher than in Russia, Dmitry Medvedev's salary seems too high. In Russia, its size is explained by regular indexation associated with inflationary processes in the country's economy.

Higher education. Orenburg State University (specialization: economics and management at heavy engineering enterprises).
December 8, 2018 .

Each of us to the question: “Who do you want to become?” at least once in his life answered: "President." Every adult has a clear understanding that the best lives in the CIS countries are those who have political weight in the country, access to the treasury, resources and other material benefits.

For the rest of the citizens, there is a certain limit, above which it is practically impossible to legally increase their wealth.

But this absolutely does not apply to those who govern the country, manage the treasury and the fate of the state. In Russia, persons who are members of the Federal Assembly, the Government, as well as the President of the country, constitute the financial elite of the state.

Every citizen of the country is interested in how much their chosen ones earn, and what salary does Russian President Putin receive today? This is not idle curiosity, because taxpayers' money goes to the maintenance of the political elite.

Simple numbers: according to data for 2016, deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation receive an official salary of 450 thousand rubles, which is 15 times more than the average citizen of the country earns.

For comparison, in the United States, the income of members of Congress exceeds the average salary in the country by only 3.9 times.

But most of all disputes and gossip are caused by the President of the Russian Federation, V.V. Putin.

Bill Browder, head of investment fund Hermitage Capital, was once a Putin supporter and one of Russia's top investors. Recently, the situation has changed and, Browder explained why in an interview with CNN:

There is a significant difference between the amounts that were produced by the country and how much was spent on social needs - educational and medical institutions, road repairs, restoration of monuments and other needs of the state. I am sure that this money did not disappear without a trace, but is on accounts in European banks, invested in shares of enterprises and various funds managed by Putin and his henchmen.

Today, according to Browder's calculations, Putin's fortune is estimated at no less than $200 billion.

This statement is impressive. In 2014, The Sunday Times (UK) published a ranking of the richest people in the world, in which the Russian president took first place.

Putin's fortune was estimated at 130 billion dollars. This amount exceeds the fortune of Carlos Slim Etu, who is the richest man in the world according to official figures.

Regarding Putin's recent policy, which was aimed at fighting the oligarchs, Bill Browder expressed his opinion as follows:

I absolutely did not understand then that the President of the Russian Federation did not control the oligarchs, but was himself the largest oligarch. Vladimir Putin arrested one of the richest and most influential people in the country to make it clear to the rest that if they do not share with him, they will suffer the same fate.

Bill Browder has many like-minded people abroad who once invested in the Russian economy. Now the situation has changed, as the confidence in the current president of the Russian Federation abroad has significantly decreased.

It can be seen that since 2014, according to expert data, Putin's fortune has increased by 70 billion rubles, and this amount is only approximate.

This is not surprising, because the current president is a co-owner and shareholder of many large enterprises in Russia, such as Bank St. Petersburg, Surgutneftegaz, OAO Gazprom, and the oil company Gunvor.

But officially, Putin has nothing to do with these companies, all the papers are issued to other persons.

At the same time, Putin entered the amount of 8,900,000 rubles in the official tax return for 2015. This amount is even lower than the officially declared income of the former press secretary of the president. Dmitry Peskov indicated the amount of 36,700,000 rubles.

Dmitry Peskov and his wife Tatyana Navka did not hesitate to declare a residential building, seven apartments for two, one of them in the United States, and two personal parking spaces. There is also a Toyota Land Cruiser 200 car in the declaration of the press secretary and, three cars and an all-terrain vehicle - with his wife.

At the same time, the head of state has been modestly adding to the declaration for more than one year only an apartment in Moscow, a land plot, a garage and a couple of domestic SUVs.

Precisely because Vladimir Putin carefully hides his income, it is very difficult to calculate the exact amount that he has at his disposal. Forbes magazine in 2015 did not include the president of Russia in its rating, since there is no official data on the billions in the president's accounts.

The official annual income of the President of Russia

As for official data, it is also difficult to give exact figures here. The fact is that the maintenance of the president is taken into account separately and the amount “for hospitality expenses” is included in a separate article in the budget.

The last column appeared back in the 90s, during Boris Yeltsin's tenure as head of state.

At that time, the incumbent president received a negligible salary, but it was not possible to increase it due to the difficult economic situation in the country.

The public would react immediately. Then they found a way out, in the adopted budget for the next year, an article appeared "for the president's hospitality expenses." Money in an envelope was handed over to Boris Yeltsin personally.

When the post of head of state passed into the hands of his successor, the item in the budget still remained. At the beginning of the year, a certain amount of money is laid under this article. But at the end of the year, the amount of money spent “on hospitality” is usually much larger.

So it is easy to hide from the public how much was allocated for this article and what was spent on.

For example, by his decree last year, the President reduced his salary by 10%. This caused a great resonance in the press. But, no one paid attention to how much the amount under the item "representation expenses" increased.

*numbers in the table are rounded to the nearest tens

As you can see, the salary even decreased slightly compared to the one that the incumbent president got from his predecessor. However, representation costs have increased significantly.

We can also trace how much Putin’s salary as president has increased up to this year:

“The fact that in 2012 the president received more than in 2011 is due to the fact that in 2012 he received additional funds for unused vacation days,” commented Dmitry Peskov.

In 2014, in an interview with the Rossiya24 TV channel, Vladimir Putin said that he did not know how much he received: “They bring me money in an envelope and I send it to my account without counting it.”

Although in April 2014 he himself signed a decree in which he increased the maintenance of the president and the salary of the prime minister by almost 3 times.

From official sources it is known for certain that in 2014 the head of the Russian Federation wrote down the figure of 7,654,000 rubles in his tax return. At that time, his monthly salary was about 637 thousand.

In 2015, Putin reduced the maintenance of the president, as well as the heads of some ministries, by 10%. As a result, for 2015 his total income, officially recorded, was 8,900,000 rubles.

It is known for certain how much the president earns at the moment. Putin's salary is 715 thousand per month.

The total income of the President of Russia today is quite difficult to calculate, since in addition to the amount that he officially earns, there are also “representation expenses”.

In addition, it is difficult to name the exact figure of the annual income that he receives from unofficial sources, due to the careful concealment of the involvement of the President of Russia in the shares of the companies mentioned above and accounts in foreign banks.

Additional benefits of the President of the Russian Federation

Vladimir Putin lives in a 19th-century mansion. The estate is the property of the country. It was equipped at the expense of the treasury.

The amount spent is not advertised, but it is known that a helipad, a reception hall for officials, and a separate building for guests were located on the territory of the mansion.

Also, by order of V.V. Putin, a swimming pool, a gym, a stable and even a church were designed here.

By law, Putin will leave this house when he transfers his powers to a successor. After Vladimir Vladimirovich retires, he will receive regular payments equal to 75% of his monthly income.

The head of state can use for his own purposes other residences located in all corners of the country, as well as the car park of the Presidential Administration and the air fleet.