Forbes magazine published an annual ranking of the richest wives of Russian officials - out of 22 women, 16 are the spouses of United Russia representatives. In total, the richest wives of officials earned almost 6 billion rubles.

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Despite the clear advantage of United Russia, the richest wife for the second year in a row was Elena Nekrasova, the wife of Alexander Nekrasov, a deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Her income amounted to 2.3 billion rubles - almost 78 times more than that of her husband (29.8 million). She owns several companies that are part of the Leader Group construction holding.
2nd place belongs to the wife of United Russia deputy Dmitry Sablin - almost 700 million, the wife of another United Russia member Alexei Krasnoshtanov - third with 670 million income.
Tatyana Navka, the wife of Dmitry Peskov, got into the top ten. With earnings of more than 200 million rubles (almost 14 times more than her husband), she took 7th place in the ranking.
The rating also includes the wives of former and current ministers - Igor Shuvalov (89 million, 13th place), head of the Ministry of Construction Mikhail Men (73 million, 16th place), ex-head of the liquidated Ministry of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov (63 million, 19th place), as well as the wife of Arkady Dvorkovich (52 million, 21st place).
You can compare with last year's ranking here .

Artem Gubenko

Forbes named the richest wives of officials