Who are the Highest Paid Officials in the Kremlin?

Vladimir Medinsky, assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, has revealed the highest incomes among senior officials in the presidential administration for the year 2021. According to declarations published on the Kremlin's website on Friday, he earned 106.8 million rubles. This was reported by the TASS agency.

Medinsky's income has significantly increased over the past year; figures from 2020 show an income of 17.6 million rubles. The head of the presidential administration, Anton Vaino, declared an income of 11.7 million rubles for 2021, which is slightly lower than the 12.2 million rubles reported in 2020. His first deputies, Alexey Gromov and Sergey Kiriyenko, declared incomes of 12.3 million and 27.3 million rubles, respectively.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, declared an income of 14.5 million rubles, which is 15 times less than that of his wife, Olympic ice dancing champion Tatiana Navka, who reported an income of 218.5 million rubles for 2021.