What is the salary of the President of Russia?A simple, seemingly question.By the way, according to the weekly "Business Life", the salary of the President of Russia at the beginning of the current year amounted to 128.3 thousand. Rubles per month.Or, if you count in dollars, $ 4,300.But this is no additional payments, fees, taxes, etc.
At the same time, the Internet portal "My Salary" claims that the salary of the President of Russia reached nearly $ 179,233 a year.The average is $ 14,936 per month.Or - the Russian equivalent - about 450,000 rubles.But it is 3 times more!It turns out a clear discrepancy, which, I think, need to be clarified.
Firstly, the indicative figure of $ 179,233. US per year - income, which Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the official declaration, received in 2012.About the same amount of income, "scheduled" and in 2013.Although, in principle, everything can change.It is well known fact that in the year before Putin earned 3.662 million. Rubles, while in 2010 - 5.042 million. As there will be in 2013, while it is impossible to accurately predict.
Secondly, when it comes to the formal legal point of view, Putin's salary as such, no.There is a so-called pay, the size of which is determined annually by the State Duma of the Russian Federation and are written in a separate line in the federal budget.Assuming that such an allowance is the official salary of the president of Russia, it turns out 1064019 rubles a year.Or somewhere $ 35400 for 12 months.At the same time the law on the state budget as a separate line registers "operation of the president of the Russian Federation", which is estimated at 8019207 rubles.The result is that the head of state in 2013, will spend more than 9 million rubles.
Third, neither from a financial nor from a logical point of view, it is not clear what "pay" the President is different from its "functioning".The fact that a clear definition of both the first and second term there is no concept of "salary of the President of Russia."The question is not even whether to pay contributions to the pension fund or not.The problem is different - who charges paid-content and determines its size?For example, the size of the salary of the President of the United States is determined by a separate law, which is constitutional in nature and therefore can not be changed either the White House or Congress.However, personally, the President may make individual decisions about how to spend paid from the federal budget.But it is, as they say, a private business, political position.
Or another example - the size of the monetary allowance of the French President as determined by a separate piece of legislation, but the level of the salary can be changed - in a period of crisis, Mr. Hollande significantly reduced their appetite.
However, judging from the official statements of the presidential administration, the salary of the president of Russia does not exceed 120 thousand dollars.Dollars per year.In any case, it is derived from fuzzy to the press secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov.Although this version seems the most plausible.
