The Governor of the Amur region, Vasily Orlov explained the inability to reduce his salary following the example of the former Governor of Khabarovsk territory Sergey Furgala. It is reported RIA Novosti with reference to live in his Instagram.
Orlov explained that the amount paid depends on wages of all their employees.
“Sergei Furgal lowered the salary of the Governor with some very large amount type million rubles to 400 thousand rubles. (…) My salary is 200 thousand, I cannot omit,” said he.
The head of the region stressed that can not take such measures is not due to the fact that he lacks money, but because of the need in this case to cut the wages of all subordinates. “The question here is whether we for a relatively low salary to recruit competent people”, — he added.
According to him, expensive cars in the government fleet there, and two black SUV’s Cruisere Land was bought by his comrades. “We are more than modestly behave in this part. Here to be embarrassed and we have nothing to fear,” concluded the eagles.
In October last year, the then Governor of the Irkutsk region Sergey Levchenko explained the increase your salary care about state employees. He was fired in December 2019 after the devastating floods in the region.
