Russia's Putin cuts salaries of presidential administration by 10 percent

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony to mark the Defender of the Fatherland Day at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin walls in central Moscow February 23, 2015. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian leader Vladimir Putin has decided to cut the salaries of members of the presidential administration by 10 percent, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies on Friday. (Reporting by Katya Golubkova, Editing by Timothy Heritage)