Trutnev declared earnings of 369.94 million rubles ($11 million) in 2008, eclipsing those declared by President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Medvedev and Putin on Monday released their tax declarations, which listed their 2008 earnings as 4,139,726 rubles ($123,906) and 4,622,400 rubles ($138,353), respectively.
The wave of officials' publicized tax declarations come as part of Medvedev's anti-corruption drive.
The combined 2008 income of First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov and his wife was just 500,000 rubles shy of Trutnev's. However, Olga Shuvalova was the family's main breadwinner. Shuvalov earned 4.76 million rubles ($142,000), while his wife earned 364.7 million rubles ($10.9 million).
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