Putin takes 10 percent salary cut in crisis-hit Russia

Russian President solon declared Friday he was cutting his pay by ten % also because the earnings of many high brass, because the country's economy reels from the collapse of the ruble. The salaries of national leader, his Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, official General

Yury Chaika and also the president of the powerful inquiring Committee Alexander Bastrykin, can all be cut by ten % from March one to New Year's Eve, in keeping with a decree signed by the president. 

The wage reduction additionally applies to any or all of these used by the presidency and also the council of ministers. The move comes but a year when the Kremlin declared the multiplication of Putin's pay. The president, World Health Organization claims to measure a economical fashion, was earning but his ministers in 2013. 

Russia's economy has been exhausting hit by the western sanctions for the country's role in backing separatist rebels in jap country, that along side falling oil costs LED to a dramatic crash of the ruble in Dec to 0.5 its price against the greenback.