THE MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REPORTED ON THE AMOUNTS OF SUPPORT TO BUSINESS

According to the report, published by the Ministry of Economic Development, the business has already received various kinds of support. The amounts of it look as follows:

-          15.2 thousand companies received loans at 0% for a total of 36.6 billion rubles (the total amount of funds, allocated for these needs, is 130 billion rubles);

-          the possibility of the deferral or the exemption from the rental payments at the federal level. Over 700 companies have already taken an advantage of this; the total amount under the agreements is 150 million rubles. More than 3200 agreements have been concluded in the amount of 1.1 billion rubles at the regional level, the contracts on the private property lease include more than 6500 agreements in the amount of 450 million rubles;

-          Among the backbone enterprises that fall under the state’s protection, the agreements on granting the loans in the amount of 21.5 billion rubles have already been concluded, more than 300 applications for the loans have been submitted in the last 2 weeks - there are 1,100 companies on the list.

In addition, 12 billion rubles were allocated to the support of the regional microfinance organizations (MFO’s), 5.7 billion rubles - to provide the loans for the salaries payments, which would be possible to cancel on the condition of the retain 90% of the staff.

In total, the support measures were allocated to more than 8 million people, 6.4 million of whom were employed in the affected sectors of the economy: 3.3 million in the small and medium-sized enterprises, 1.38 million in the individual enterprises and 650 thousand of the self-employed citizens.