Vladimir Putin's insane riches: By the numbers

Vladimir Putin enters St. Andrew&#039;s Hall in the Grand Kremlin Palace to take the oath of office on May 7, 2012.

(Image credit: AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin)

last updated 8 January 2015

In public, Russian President Vladimir Putin talks up his humble beginnings and promotes himself as an ascetic, devoted public servant. "I have toiled like a galley slave, giving it my all," Putin told reporters in 2008, near the end of his first two terms in office. But Kremlin watchers and political opponents have long suspected that Putin actually lives like a czar, or one of "the monarchs of the Persian Gulf," as two critics suggest in a new pamphlet, The Life of a Galley Slave. Reformist former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov and Leonid Martynyuk, a Solidarity movement activist, make their case by cataloging Putin's immense riches, drawing from public records and other open sources. Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says there is nothing secret about Putin's official state residences and fleet of black Mercedes and opulent jets. "It is all state property and Putin, as the elected president, uses it in accordance with the law," Peskov says. But the sheer size and regality of Putin's ostensibly state-owned holdings is pretty mind-boggling, especially in a country with so much poverty. Here, a look at Vladimir Putin's reputed fortune, by the numbers:

$110,000