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MOSCOW - Information about the income and property of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been published due to his registration as a presidential candidate.

The newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta posted on Thursday the Russian Central Elections Commission resolution No 78/618-6 dated Dec. 20, 2011, "On the Registration of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin as a Russian Presidential Candidate". The resolution contains information about Putin’s income in the four years before the election year.

It says that Putin’s income stood at 17,743,755 rubles in the past four years.

The income includes salaries (in the Russian government staff and the Russian presidential administration), a military pension, bank deposits’ interest and stock dividends.

The Central Elections Commission reported that Putin has ten bank deposits with the total sum of 5,722,551.7 rubles.

He also owns 230 shares of Bank St. Petersburg (0.0000596%).

He owns 1,500 square meters of land in the Moscow region, a 77.7-square meter apartment in St. Petersburg and a garage in St. Petersburg.

He also has a 153.7-square meter apartment and a garage in St. Petersburg in unlimited use.

Putin is the owner of a GAZ M21 car (1960), A GAZ M21R car (1965), a Lada 21214 car (2009) and a Skif trailer (1987).

The Central Elections Commission also reported the income of Vladimir Putin’s spouse Lyudmila.

Her only source of income was bank accounts, which yielded 146,783 rubles within four years.

Lyudmila Putin is the owner of four bank deposits with the total sum of 8,352,108.1 rubles.