Immediately after the occupation of the Crimea, the new "authorities" of the peninsula increased salaries for local residents, but after a while the salaries were sharply reduced.

The leader of the Crimean Tatar people, People's Deputy from the BCP Mustafa Dzhemilev told about this in an interview with Realist.

"Yes, at first people began to receive big salaries. But then the salaries were sharply reduced, without being ashamed to explain this: "They were" stimulating "so that you would support Russia," he said..

According to Dzhemilev, recently the so-called head of the Crimea Sergei Aksenov said that in the Crimea, the average salary of 30 thousand. rub (this is approximately $ 500).

"I was surprised, asked my friends if this is so. They say that good money is received by officials, policemen and for some reason journalists. The rest of the salary is comparable with the Ukrainian. But the question is, let's say, the prices for food there are higher. And to stay in business, one must demonstrate daily his loyalty to Russia. There were practically no businessmen left, a lot of people were ruined, "the leader of the Crimean Tatars.