SIMFEROPOL, March 31. /ITAR-TASS/. Salaries for public sector workers in Crimea would be raised to the level of average salaries across Russia already by July 2014, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told a session in Crimea’s Simferopol on Monday.

He said these would be staged increases, explaining that “pensions will be raised in May, June and July” when they will reach the level of average salaries in Russia.