What is the salary of the President of Russia? A seemingly simple question. By the way, according to the weekly "Business Life", the salary of the President of Russia at the beginning of this year amounted to 128.3 thousand rubles a month. Or, if you count in dollar terms, $ 4300. But this is without additional payments, fees, taxes, etc.
At the same time, the Internet portal "My Salary" claims that the salary of the President of Russia reaches nearly $ 179,233 per year. On average, it's $ 14,936 per month. Or - in Russian equivalent - about 450,000 rubles. But it is 3 times more! It turns out a clear discrepancy, which, I think, needs to be clarified.
First, the indicative figure of $ 179,233 per year is the amount of income that Russian President Vladimir Putin received in 2012 according to an official declaration. Approximately the same amount of income is “planned” for 2013. Although, in principle, everything can change. After all, it is known that Putin earned 3.662 million rubles the year before last, while in 2010 - 5.042 million. As it turns out in 2013, it is impossible to predict for sure.
Secondly, speaking from a formal legal point of view, Vladimir Putin has no salary as such. There is a so-called monetary content, the amounts of which are determined each year by the State Duma of the Russian Federation and are prescribed as a separate line in the federal budget. If we assume that such a salary is the official salary of the president of Russia, then 1064019 rubles a year come out. Or somewhere around $ 35,400 for 12 months. At the same time, the law on the state budget sets out in a separate line “the functioning of the president of the Russian Federation”, which is estimated at 8,019,207 rubles. As a result, it turns out that more than 9 million rubles will be spent on the head of state in 2013.
Thirdly, it is not entirely clear from either a financial or logical point of view how the “monetary content” of the President differs from his “functioning”. The fact is that there is no clear definition of both the first and second terms, as there is no concept of “the salary of the President of Russia”. The question is not even whether
contributions to the Pension Fund are paid or not. The problem is different - who calculates the salary-maintenance and determines its size? For example, the salary of the President of the United States is determined by a separate law, which is constitutional in nature and therefore cannot be changed neither by the owner of the White House, nor by Congress. True, the President personally can make individual decisions about how to spend funds paid from the federal budget. But this, as they say, is his personal affair, his political position.
Or another example - the size of the monetary allowance of the French president is also determined by a separate legislative act, but the level of the salary itself can be changed - during the crisis, Mr. Hollande significantly reduced his appetites.
However, judging by the official statements of the presidential administration, the salary of the president of Russia does not exceed 120 thousand dollars. USA per year. In any case, this follows from the fuzzy statements of the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Although this version seems the most believable.