Posted on 01/30/2024 4:40:29 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Russian President Vladimir Putin claims he has earned less than $1 million during the past six years as president, according to financial documents published Tuesday by Russia's election authority.
The documents from the Central Election Commission (CEC) show Putin reported making 67.6 million rubles, which is approximately $753,000, between 2018 and 2024. Along with his salary as president, this figure includes income from bank deposits, a military pension and money made from property sales.
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According to information Putin provided to the CEC, he has savings of 54.5 million rubles ($606,000) spread across 10 different bank accounts and owns a few automobiles. These vehicles are listed as two vintage Soviet Unions cars—GAZ M-21s—manufactured in the 1960s, a Russian-made 4X4 from 2009 and a 1987 camping trailer.
The documents also show Putin owns an apartment and garage in St. Petersburg, as well as an apartment in Moscow. Not listed are other properties believed to belong to Putin, such as a summer house in Sochi, a home on the Black Sea coast dubbed "Putin's Palace" and a recently documented luxurious estate on a bay near Russia's border with Finland.
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As long as it’s not coming out of my pocket, (unlike Zelensky), I don’t give a hoot.
Well, he’s not a democRAT so it’s probably true.
The difference is that his policies have actually dramatically increased the standard of living for his citizens during his time office. Compare that to Americans living under Biden, who have seen an 11% drop in wages when adjusted for inflation.
Well, that $606,000 was worth $24 million when this whole thing started.
Putin makes less than me? Suuuuuuuuuure he does!
Putin is probably the wealthiest man in the world.
Well he’s sort of telling the truth. He makes his big money from his Gazprom holdings worth a few billion.
>Putin makes less than me? Suuuuuuuuuure he does!<
That’s 753,000 United States DOLLARS, meggie, not Ukrainian hryvnias.
Or get a water main fixed!
You'd be surprised how much you can buy with just a few hryvnias.
I know an old guy named Baba, living in Youcrayne with "magical" powers, who bought six fliminitskysa, 13 blinotskoinitska, a case of Plookitskanya Vodka, a house with a sauna, many silinskitkyninayablosti, and who traveled around the country on just 87 of them!
When he got bagged preying on underage girls he got off the hook by bribing three Youke cops, two judges, seven jurors and his jailers with just two hryvnias and by promising to receive some plooksky bakdorskynitskyna from them.
Pretty amazing value, considering that one hryvnias equals just two dollars!
But only a week ago this sorts of threads were busy with those Russian energy plants up in flames, until it turns out some of ours are up in flames. And with it, any notion that Russia alone suffers from energy issues and producing problems.
And then before that, the beautiful egg stories, after which the old avian flu caught up with a bunch of US producers and the egg thing didn't seem so important and limited in scope rather than a worldwide thing.
Gosh, by golly and gee whiz, sounds like the REAL takeaway from so many comments in this thread and those like it would be "government is the problem, not the solution."
Governments and their leaders ARE the problem, there, here and everywhere. Degrow government.
>Pretty amazing value, considering that one hryvnias equals just two dollars!<
Baba has better magical powers than you think, Rocco.
1.00 Ukrainian Hryvnia = 0.026526687 US Dollars
1 USD = 37.6979 UAH
He did all that on only 2.3143403 US Dollars!
No wonder he left America for Ukraine where underage girls are dirt cheap.
BTW, I heard he really misses keeping up with his zeeper pals.
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