The Crimeans were promised that if they supported the annexation of the peninsula by Russia, Putin would raise salaries.
Putin is an honest guy and today he announced that salaries will, indeed, be raised by 2,6 times. The salaries being raised are his own and Medvedev’s.
I mean, it isn’t like he ever specified whose salaries would be raised, and if people assumed he meant anybody but himself and Medvedev, that’s their misfortune.
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