More than 178,000 people have signed an online petition calling for Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s resignation after he suggested teachers wanting more pay should seek a different career, AFP reported Friday.
When asked by a university lecturer at a public forum why teachers receive less money than policemen, the prime minister replied that “there is no need to compare, the issue is what you choose in life.” [...]
Medvedev was lampooned earlier this year for telling a woman receiving a small pension payment on a visit to Crimea, “Hang in there! Cheer up, and good health!”
Medvedev introduced a law making it obligatory for the government to consider any petition that gains over 100,000 signatories on a government-run website, AP reported, adding that no such petition calling for Medvedev to resign was visible on that site Friday.
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