“To date, 110 billion rubles of loans have been issued to 107 enterprises,” RIA Novosti quoted the Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov as saying.

According to him, out of these enterprises, 61 were at risk.

He specified that 50 backbone enterprises received support under the lending program at 2% with subsequent write-offs.

On May 19, Maxim Reshetnikov announced that Russian banks issued 20 loans to system-forming enterprises in two weeks.