"The final list of backbone enterprises for financial monitoring and stress testing will be approved on Friday," RIA Novosti quoted the secretariat of First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov.

It is noted that the list of backbone enterprises is formed on the basis of the following criteria: proposals from relevant ministries, as well as the turnover of enterprises and the number of employees.

Earlier, the head of the Department of Finance of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Alexander Khandruyev, in an interview with the FAN, commented on the instructions of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on additional measures to support the country's economy.