MOSCOW — A petition calling on Russia’s president to sack Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, whose comments about teachers’ pay sparked outrage earlier this week, has attracted more than a hundred thousand signatures.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, center, listens to Sevastopol governor Sergei Menyailo, right, as he visits new highway construction site near Sevastopol, Crimea on Tuesday, July 25, 2916. (Alexander Astafyev/Sputnik, Government Press Service Pool Photo via AP) mb.com.ph
When asked by a teacher from the impoverished Dagestan region why teachers are paid half as much as police officers, Medvedev retorted that teaching is not a job for those seeking to …read more
Source: Malaya Business Insight
