How rich is Vladimir Putin?

Answer 1

Officially, putin's yearly income is in the range of 120,000 US Dollars, according to publically announced tax returns. Putin's official net worth seems to be between 200,000 US Dollars and 400,000 US Dollars, comprising of several cars, an appartment in St. Petersbourg and bank deposits.

In reality, independent investigators estimate his fortune to be in the vicinity of 40 Billion US Dollars, mostly through indirect stakes in the Russian energy sector. Such a fortune would effectively make Mr. Vladimir Putin the richest man not only in Russia, but also in Europe.

Sources:

http://www.javno.com/en-world/medvedev-and-putins-assets-laid-bare_249104

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/dec/21/russia.topstories3

Answer 2

In general Russia is poor compared to U.S, Germany, Japan and other major countries but Moscow is the city with most billionaires in the world, that means that there's 1% group who has 80% of russia's wealth, this group of rich oil, steel, and gas magnates are thiefs, they just took the resources of russia after the fall of the Soviet Union and made the papers look like they bought it. And now they use cheap russian labor to dig out those resources to sell them to foreign countries while their own people live in poverty, thanks to Mr. Putin!