The press secretary of the President of Russia and his friends voice different versions of where he got the expensive watch from.

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Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov answered RBC's question about the watch he wore at the wedding. According to him, his wife Tatyana Navka gave them to him.

"This is a gift from Tanya [ Tatyana Navka]. Indeed, the watch is very expensive. But they cost significantly less than some comrades indicate, ”Peskov emphasized, noting that the gift was made on the wedding day.

According to the presidential press secretary, Navka bought the watch with her own money. “Which is nobody’s business,” he added. So Peskov commented on the statement of the oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who accused him of "illicit enrichment". As Yugopolis reported, the oppositionist wrote about the Richard Mille RM 52-01 watch in his blog, attaching a photo from the wedding of the presidential press secretary to Tatyana Navka. The wedding ceremony took place in Sochi on August 1.

An alternative version was expressed by a Russian politician Oleg Mitvol, who was a guest at the wedding of Peskov and Navka. According to him, according to "MK", ​​the expensive jewelry was worn especially for the audience.

Now everyone is discussing the watch that was on Dmitry Peskov's hand. Rumor has it that the accessory costs a fortune. Like, the cost of a watch is comparable to the price of an apartment in Moscow. Can I tell you the history of this watch? - the politician shared.

During the wedding, Peskov understood that he would be photographed, and the cards would then scatter over the Internet. During the preparations for the wedding, there were also so many rumors that the guests had something to discuss and something to laugh at later. In this case, the newlyweds decided to play a joke. Peskov temporarily borrowed a watch from one of his acquaintances who were present at the celebration. Posed with them. We were waiting for the journalists to react to this duck. And they weren't wrong. The next day, everyone began to calculate how much the watch cost, and how could an official acquire such a luxury with his modest salary?

The Anti-Corruption Foundation claims that this series of watches is produced in a limited edition of 30 pieces and the cost of one pair of such watches is $ 620,000 - they received such an answer from the Richard Mille boutique in the USA when asked about the cost of the model.

“What kind of sources can a press secretary of the head of state use to buy watches worth 4 of his annual salaries?” the oppositionist asks.

He refers to the law, according to which officials who receive gifts worth more than 3,000 rubles are required to notify and deposit them. “According to the new rules (since 2014), they can be bought out at the market price, that is, Mr. Peskov still had to pay the same 37 million rubles,” the oppositionist emphasized.

As RIA Novosti reported, in November 2013 the Polish Minister of Transport Slavomir Novak was forced to resign due to non-declaration of a watch worth 5.5 thousand dollars (that is, in 112 times less than Peskov).

Last Saturday, August 1, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov married Olympic champion Tatyana Navka. The wedding took place in Sochi and expectedly attracted a lot of attention.

However, it was not the bride's dress and who got the bouquet that caused the most discussion among Internet users; not high-ranking and famous guests, and not even a wedding cake.

Most of all, a modest men's accessory aroused interest - a wristwatch with a skull.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation drew attention to them and found out that they are very similar to the Richard Mitte RM 52-01 watch, the cost of which can reach 37 million rubles.

According to the fund's calculations, the press secretary of the president cannot afford such an expensive accessory: his income is just over 9 million rubles a year. If the watch were donated, then the civil servant would be obliged to notify about such a gift and deposit it, or redeem it at the market price.

After publication on the network, numerous versions of the appearance of this watch on Peskov's hand began to appear. The former significantly reduced the cost of the accessory and hinted that the watch might be a fake. Others claimed that the clock was borrowed, rented, for a wedding.

Dmitry Peskov himself said that this was a gift from his wife Tatyana Navka. The Olympic champion in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda confirmed this information. Declaring that "he works very hard and can afford it."

“Naturally, the price that everyone is discussing now, of course, is not true. And it doesn't matter at all. Why, by the way, can Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko give his wife an expensive personalized ring in honor of the wedding, for example, while another Olympic champion does not give her husband? Navka explained.

Without explanation, there was a photograph taken long before the wedding. On it, Dmitry Peskov hugs his daughter, and he has the same or very similar watch on his hand.

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov and athlete Tatyana Navka played a wedding on August 1. In wedding photos, bloggers looked at an elite Richard Mille watch on their hand and doubted that their cost corresponds to the salary of a civil servant. According to the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the watch on the hand of the press secretary of the head of state is Richard Mille RM 52-01, they were produced in a limited edition of 30 pieces, their cost is $620,000 (more than 37 million rubles). Other bloggers appreciated their cost is 9.3 million rubles. In the declaration for 2014, Peskov indicated an income of 9.1 million rubles, for 2013 - 14 million rubles.

Peskov later explained that Tatyana Navka gave him the watch on his wedding day. "This is a gift from Tanya. Indeed, the watch is very expensive. But they cost significantly less than some comrades indicate," the president's press secretary said. The athlete herself made a similar statement. At the same time, the fact that Peskova seen in this watch still a few months before the wedding, they did not comment.

What watches do Russian officials and businessmen wear?

The Internet community has always been worried about the watches of officials and top officials of the state. In the spring of 2012, a $30,000 Breguet watch (1.8 million rubles at the current exchange rate) that “disappeared” from the hands of Patriarch Kirill was heatedly discussed in the Russian blogosphere. On the photos published on the official website of the Moscow Patriarchate from the meeting of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church with the Minister of Justice, the watch on the clergyman's hand was "smeared" in a graphic editor. At the same time, the image of the clock was preserved in the reflection of the hand on the surface of the table. Subsequently, the press service of the patriarch apologized and returned the original photos showing the watch.

Favorite watch - Blancpain Leman Aqua Lung. At least they often flash in the photographs. Blancpain's official website states that this watch was produced in a limited edition of 2005 pieces, and their cost is approximately $11,000 (about 682,000 rubles at the current exchange rate). Despite the limited number of watches in this series, Putin is far from wearing the first Blancpain. In August 2009, the president presented his watch to the son of a Tuvan shepherd, with whom he had tea; in September of the same year, Putin gave another Blancpain to a simple mechanic from Tula.

The President of the Republic of Chechnya at one time wore a Bovet Fleurier Minute Repeater watch in a white gold (18 carat) case. According to experts, such a model costs about $300,000 (18.6 million rubles at the current exchange rate).

The prime minister came to the May meeting with the president wearing an Apple Watch smart watch, sales of which in Russia began only on July 31. Apparently, it was an Apple Watch Sport with a 42 mm display, they cost 27,990 rubles. In general, Medvedev is known for his love of gadgets - he actively used the iPhone and iPad. In addition, he has an expensive Leica S2 camera, the cost of which is 1 million rubles. Finance Minister Anton Siluanov also prefers the Apple Watch Sport 42 mm, but more expensive - with a stainless steel case. Such watches cost around 40 thousand rubles.

The Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy, known for his knowledge of English, wears a Breguet 5930BB that costs about $15,000 (930,000 rubles at the current exchange rate).

In November 2011, at the ceremony of laying the first cubic meter of concrete of the Barsuchkovskaya small hydroelectric power station, the president of the company, who at that time held the post of deputy chairman of the government, together with the chairman of the board of RusHydro Evgeny Dod and the governor of the Stavropol Territory Valery Gaevsky, threw their watches into fresh concrete - such a tradition of Russian power engineers. Gaevsky and Dod threw a Vacheron Constantin watch into the concrete. One pair of such watches costs from 700 thousand to a million rubles. What clock Sechin threw into the concrete, then no one could see. Presumably, these were simple "commander's" watches, which cost a little more than 5 thousand rubles.

But the owner of the football club "Chelsea" and a billionaire prefers to wear a sports watch. The businessman has been repeatedly seen wearing the Polar M61 watch, which allows you to control your heart rate. Such watches are much cheaper than elite accessories, which are preferred by other Russian businessmen - a little more than 10 thousand rubles. The entrepreneur was also seen several times wearing Polar watches.

The most expensive watch at the moment was seen on the hand of a State Duma deputy - DeWitt La Pressy Grande Complication. They cost just over a million Swiss francs (about 68.6 million rubles at the current exchange rate). As Vedomosti wrote in 2009, Resin has another watch - the GreubelForsey Double Tourbillon 30°, which costs from $360,000 to $425,000 depending on the case (from 22.3 million to 26.3 million rubles).

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The press secretary of the president assures that Navka gave him the accessory for the wedding. A friend of the newlywed - a politician - tells a completely different story.

A scandal around the prohibitively expensive Richard Mille watch, seen during his wedding with Tatyana Navka, is gaining momentum on the Web.

One of the first elite accessories was noticed by the opposition member Alexei Navalny, who hastened to report that the decoration costs “more than your apartment” - 37 million rubles (and it was previously reported that 9 million) with a hint of the “illegal enrichment” of a civil servant, which should be punished by law .

Meanwhile, while memes dedicated to Dmitry Peskov’s watches are multiplying on the Internet, two “official” versions have already appeared about how the multimillion-dollar Richard Mille, worth like a newlywed’s declaration salary for a year, ended up on his hand.

So, the wedding guest - politician Oleg Mitvol - assured journalists that they "fell for the bait", believing that the watch really belongs to the hero of the occasion. In fact, Peskov and his comrades decided to "poke fun" at the media in order to check how soon the news about the expensive "toy" of the press secretary will leak to the press. To do this, Peskov borrowed jewelry from one of the wealthy wedding guests.

During the wedding, Peskov understood that he would be photographed, and the cards would then scatter over the Internet. During the preparations for the wedding, there were also so many rumors that the guests had something to discuss and something to laugh at later. In this case, the newlyweds decided to play a joke. Peskov borrowed a watch for a while from one of his acquaintances, who was present at the celebration. Posed with them. We were waiting for the journalists to react to this duck. And they weren't wrong. The next day, everyone began to calculate how much a watch costs, and how could an official acquire such a luxury with his modest salary? .. - Mitvol said.

At the same time, Peskov himself tells the media a “touching” version, according to which the ill-fated watch was presented to him by none other than the bride, and now his wife, Tatyana Navka.

This is a gift from Tanya. Indeed, the watch is very expensive. But they cost significantly less than some comrades indicate, - said the newlywed, adding that his wife bought them for her own money, - and no one cares which ones.

Almost immediately, “old” photos of Peskov with his daughter Lisa appeared on the Web, where a similar watch flaunts on his hand.

Thus, either Mitvol is deceiving journalists, just continuing to “check” them, or he was “shielding” his comrade, not knowing the main version, or is it Peskov, as he sometimes likes, continues to “troll” the media and the opposition, with with a serious face, claiming that it was not even he, a civil servant, who bought the incredibly expensive watch, but his wife, an incredibly popular and sought-after figure skater, but clearly not an oligarch.

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov answered RBC's question about the watch he wore at the wedding. According to him, his wife Tatyana Navka gave them to him for the wedding. About Peskov's watch for 37 million rubles. Navalny wrote

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov (Photo: RIA Novosti)

“This is a gift from Tanya [Tatiana Navka]. Indeed, the watch is very expensive. But they cost significantly less than some comrades indicate, ”Peskov emphasized, noting that the gift was made on the wedding day.

According to the presidential press secretary, Navka bought the watch with her own money. “Which is nobody’s business,” he added. So Peskov commented on the statement of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who accused him of "illegal enrichment." The oppositionist wrote about the Richard Mille RM 52-01 watch on his blog, attaching a photo from the wedding of the presidential press secretary with Tatyana Navka. The wedding ceremony took place in Sochi on August 1.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation claims that this series of watches is produced in a limited edition of 30 pieces and the cost of one piece is $620,000, — the answer with such a price was received from the Richard Mille boutique in the USA when asked about the cost of the watch model in the photo.

“What kind of sources can a press secretary of the head of state use to buy a watch worth four of his annual salaries?” the opposition asks. In Peskov’s income statement for 2014, the “income” column indicates the figure of 9,184,358 rubles, the blog says.

He also refers to the law, according to which officials who receive gifts worth more than 3,000 rubles are required to notify them and deposit them. “According to the new rules (since 2014), they can be bought out at the market price, that is, Mr. Peskov still had to pay the same 37 million rubles,” the oppositionist emphasized.

At the same time, Navalny points out that "the Anti-Corruption Foundation noticed the watch a long time ago." As confirmation, the oppositionist attached a photo of Peskov with his daughter, which appeared on the Internet earlier and on which the press secretary of the head of state was filmed at the same hours as at his wedding. This photo appeared on Instagram of Peskov's daughter Elizabeth 15 weeks ago.

The day before, in one of the most expensive Sochi hotels Rodina, the wedding ceremony of Peskov and Olympic champion in figure skating Tatyana Navka. Dozens of guests were invited to the event, including President Vladimir Putin. Whether the head of state came to Sochi for the holiday has not yet been reported.

Peskov married for the third time. From two previous marriages, he had three sons and a daughter. For Tatyana Navka, this marriage was already the second. Together with her first husband, world figure skating champion Alexander Zhulin, she lived in the United States for several years, after which she returned to Russia without receiving an American passport. Navka was married to Zhulin for ten years, after which the couple announced a divorce.