According to the president, it is wrong to compare the salaries of top managers of state-owned companies with the national average

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he does not know the salary of Rosneft head Igor Sechin.

“I don’t know Sechin’s salary,” the president said at the annual big press conference broadcast by the Rossiya 24 TV channel.

Speaking in general about the salaries of top managers of Russian state-owned companies, Putin said that they receive “very substantial money.” At the same time, according to the president, it is incorrect to compare their salaries with the national average. “We must look <...> how much their colleagues in the same corporations around the world earn, because today Sechin can work there, tomorrow, maybe, we will invite some foreign specialist,” the president noted.

Putin explained that his words should not be understood as a desire to fire the president of Rosneft. “I’m not talking about him, but about the fact that some companies can invite foreign specialists. But we cannot pay a foreign specialist one salary, and ours another. Here, we still need to compare salaries in the industry as a whole,” - he stated.

The president could not remember his salary either. According to him, he doesn’t count it: “To be honest, I don’t even [know] my salary. No matter how they bring it, I add it up and send it to my account.”

The Moscow City Court on Tuesday, December 16, rejected the complaint of the publishing house Axel Springer Russia, which publishes Forbes magazine in Russia, against the decision in the claim of Rosneft President Igor Sechin for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation. The publisher of Forbes challenged the decision of the Savyolovsky Court of Moscow, which on August 1 fully satisfied Igor Sechin’s claim. The head of Rosneft asked to recognize the assessment of his income in the “Rating of the Most Expensive Top Managers of Russia - 2013” and some information from the article “The Last Conquistador” as discrediting his honor, dignity and business reputation.

Putin does not know Sechin's salary