普京生活糜烂 私产惊人

 

A dossier（档案，卷宗） drawn³ up by a political rival of the Russian president suggests that he has 58 planes and helicopters at his use, that he has a collection of watches worth £400,000, and that he relaxes at more than 20 palaces and country retreats.

 

The report also claims that Mr Putin uses an Ilyushin jet with a £111.3 million cabin that includes a bathroom that has gold fittings and a £50,000 lavatory⁴.

 

Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, concluded in his report that Mr Putin's existence "can be compared with that of the monarchs⁵ of the Persian Gulf⁶ or the most outrageous⁷ oligarchs（寡头政治的统治者）".

 

The Russian leader, 59, has often played on his humble⁸ beginnings to popular effect. He once described how, as a child, he had to beat aside rats with a stick at the entrance to his parents' communal⁹ apartment in St Petersburg.

 

Mr Putin, a judo¹⁰ black belt and amateur ice hockey player, has also projected his job as a punishing challenge fraught¹¹ with austerity. Mr Nemtsov's report is titled "The Life of a Galley¹² Slave", in reference to a comment by Mr Putin on finishing his second term as president in 2008, when he said: "I'm not ashamed before the citizens who voted for me. All these eight years I've been toiling¹⁴ like a galley slave, with every ounce of my strength. And I'm pleased with the results."

 

Among the perks said to be available to the president are a £600 million Italianate palace at Gelendzhik on the Black Sea coast and a £26 milllion yacht called Sirius with whirlpool baths, a cinema and an artificial waterfall.

 

Another 176ft yacht includes a spa pool, waterfall and wine cellar, but "the real diamond of the Kremlin flotilla," the report claims, is a five-decked boat with a jacuzzi, barbecue, a maple¹⁵ wood colonnade¹⁶ and a bathroom faced in marble.

 

A 2,300-acre residence on Lake Valdai in north-western Russia has a cinema, a bowling¹⁷ alley¹³ and a "presidential church", and it is said a little-known three-storey residence near Saratov, on the Volga river south-east of Moscow, has German chandeliers and Italian furniture, and features a billiard room, a winter garden, a pool and sauna.

 

According to his official income declaration Mr Putin earned £70,000 last year, making his suggested watch collection alone worth almost six times his annual salary.

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