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Luxurious Fashion Choices: President Putin’s Expensive Wardrobe Raises Eyebrows

▲ While President Putin was attending a forum in Moscow, Russia on the 14th (local time) and joking and moving around with the attendees, a label inside the jacket he was wearing was caught on camera . The jacket in question is a product of the Italian luxury brand Brioni, and its price is said to be worth 11.7 million won. While Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, a staunch enemy of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died mysteriously in prison , President Putin bought a luxurious suit of about 10 million and wore it and appeared in an official event.

While President Putin was attending a forum in Moscow, Russia on the 14th (local time) and joking and moving around with the attendees, a label inside the jacket he was wearing was caught on camera .

It is known that the suit he wore that day was a product of the Italian luxury brand Brioni ▲ On the 14th (local time), President Putin attended a forum in Moscow, Russia, and was joking and moving around with the attendees. the label of the jacket was caught on camera. The jacket in question is a product of the Italian luxury brand Brioni, and its price is said to be worth 11.7 million won. According to the British daily newspaper Daily Mail, the price of the Brioni suit is around 11.7 million won in Korea. The Daily Mail pointed out, “(President Putin’s expensive suit) is very similar to the average Russian pension of 38.49 pounds (about 60,000 won) a week.”

The reason why President Putin’s luxury Italian jacket was even more ironic that day was because of what was mentioned in the forum.

At the forum, President Putin, wearing an expensive Western luxury brand jacket, emphasized the legitimacy of the war in Ukraine, saying that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is trying to occupy Russia. At the same time, he is said to have emphasized how corrupt Western countries are and how important it is to replace the West in trade.

In addition, although he usually gave instructions to officials not to use Western products, he himself did not hide his love for luxury goods from Western countries ▲ Black jacket at an event to commemorate the annexation of four Ukrainian territories held in Moscow on September 30 , 2022. Russian President Putin gives a speech wearing a jacket AFP Yonhap News Agency In September 2022, when the war broke out, President Putin also appeared wearing a Briony jacket at a concert held on Red Square in Moscow, the capital . It was also confirmed that the jacket was expensive, worth around 11 million won in Korean currency.

In addition, last March, right after the war started with the invasion of Ukraine, Putin was wearing padding from the Italian brand Loro Piana worth about 500,000 rubles (about 16 million won at the exchange rate at the time ), also an Italian brand, at a concert commemorating the 8th anniversary of the annexation of the Crimean peninsula. She wore a white neck polar knit worth 3.8 million won by Keaton.

At the time, Yahoo News reported, “‘Brioni’ is known to be the Russian dictator’s favorite brand,” and added, “This is not the first time Putin has attended an official event wearing expensive brand clothing.”

The average Russian office worker needs to save his salary for a year to buy a Pouthit jacket.

According to foreign media reports, as of 2011, the average annual salary of Russian office workers was about 680,000 rubles, or about 9,853,200 won at the current exchange rate. President Putin’s ‘beloved’ jacket is a product that requires Russian office workers to save their wages for a whole year ▲ Loro Piana pad and a kitten worn by Russian President Putin at an event commemorating the 8th anniversary of the annexation of the Crimea in March 2022. Neck pole. Both products are known to be expensive, worth 16 million won and 3.8 million won, respectively. Netizens who checked the brand of President Putin’s jacket in this forum said, “Russian soldiers are paid $50 a month (about 67,000 won) and fight without proper weapons,” and “Politicians around the world to all the same (even if they say things differently). ).” “He raised his voice from criticism.

Although President Putin often reveals his ‘love of luxury goods’ in official appearances, he is known to thoroughly hide the ‘real wealth’ he owns.

President Putin, who is running in the presidential election in March and is seeking a fifth term, had a list of assets reported to Russia’s Central Election Commission last month, including a 77㎡ (about 23 pyeong) apartment in St Petersburg and an income of about 10% over the last 6 years A billion won has been raised.

However, the British BBC reported, “Putin’s real wealth is rumored to be $125 billion (about 167.25 trillion won), and has been hidden through the accounts of acquaintances and paper companies.”

The Gossier Center, a UK-based investigative media outlet that has been tracking corruption among high-ranking Russian officials, also released a video recorded using a drone on the 30th of last month, saying, “This is a luxury villa that hid President Putin. off his inventory.” At the time, it was known that the site of the villa shown in the video was about 4㎢, which is about 1.4 times the size of Myeonjeong in Yeouido (2.9㎢).

Navalny dies two days after Putin shows off $10 million jacket

Alexei Navalny, President Putin’s political aide and opposition leader who recently died mysteriously in prison, also claimed several times that Putin was hiding expensive assets, including a luxury villa ▲ Video of Navalny released on Russian news channel. This video was filmed on the 15th, the day before his sudden death. Source SOTA After Navalny emerged as the leader of the opposition, his right eye was seriously injured by a drug injected by a gunman on the streets of Moscow, and he was poisoned by poisons such as Novichok and almost died, but he persevered and survived.

However, Navalny, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison by President Putin and the judiciary he controlled, was transferred several times to prisons known to have particularly poor conditions.

Just two days after President Putin criticized Western countries for wearing expensive Western brand jackets that ordinary people could not even dream of, Navalny died mysteriously in prison. Currently, the bereaved family and the international community are raising suspicions that President Putin is behind his death, but President Putin has not made any official statement.

Reporter Song Hyeon-seo

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