It is noted that "all the objects of a mass stay of people, including shopping centers, are distributed by risk categories."

The Ministry of Emergencies introduced six categories: extremely high, high, significant, medium, moderate, low.

It is being clarified that the distribution into categories “directly depends on the possible number of people simultaneously at the facility”, and each of them has its own inspection deadlines.

According to TASS, these changes to the law were enshrined in a government decree.

Earlier it was reported that the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia plans to switch to a new organizational and staff structure from 2020, during the reorganization, 578 agencies of the department are liquidated as a legal entity by the end of the year.