Deputy speaker of the State Duma and secretary of the presidium of the general council of the United Russia Party Vyacheslav Volodin.
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Candidate Medvedev Richer than Pres.
Information on First Deputy Prime Minister and presidential candidate Dmitry Medvedev's income and property was released yesterday. Under the law, he has to release his financial accounts from 2003 to 2006. Medvedev made an average of 1.7 million rubles per year, for a four-year total of 7 million rubles. That is about twice the income level of Communist candidate Gennady Zyuganov's total of 3.4 million rubles, or LDPR candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky's 3.6 million rubles.
Medvedev had three sources of income in the four-year period. The first was St. Petersburg University, before he came to Moscow. Then he was employed by the presidential administration while he headed it in 2004 and 2005. Then he received his salary from the government after he became first deputy prime minister. In addition, he receives royalties from tow textbooks on civil law. He is one of nine authors of the books, a million copies of which were printed between 1996 and 2007. Payment for writing the foreword to former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's memoirs was not reflected in Medvedev's financial statements.
Medvedev owns an apartment with an area of 367.8 sq. m. and he leases a plot of land outside Moscow. Zhirinovsky's wife owns eight apartments.
Medvedev earned 2.2 million rubles in 2006, and slightly less in 2005. That was more than prime minister Mikhail Fradkov made in 2006 (1.8 million) or deputy prime ministers Sergey Naryshkin (2.08 million) and Alexander Zhukov (2.05 million). Russian President Vladimir Putin, as a candidate MP, filed an income statement for 2006 claiming 2.01 million rubles' income that year.
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All the Article in Russian as of Jan. 22, 2008
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